The owner of a million-dollar mansion on Highland Avenue has lost his lawsuit against the city of Fall River, and is "permanently” prohibited from renting his castle-like home on Airbnb and Vrbo.

Austin Feng of Wellesley, the owner of 503 Highland Ave., had been renting the home since 2021 on short-term rental websites, charging as much as $1,200 per night. The city’s building inspector ordered him in 2023 to stop, citing code violations, and the Zoning Board of Appeals denied him the right to continue.

Feng defied the ZBA’s order and continued to rent the property anyway; after the city ordered him to pay $3,000 in fines and notified him that the building inspector would evict any future tenants, Feng sued the city, claiming the city’s zoning ordinance did not specifically prohibit him from using the home as a short-term rental property.

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