At first, Airbnb grew slowly in London. By 2012, four years after it first launched, there were only a few hundred rentals in the capital each week. Then, in 2014, word started to spread. That year, ...

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Rising numbers of houses and flats listed as short-term lets on Airbnb are associated with higher rates of crimes such as burglaries and street robberies right across London, according to the most ...

Around 2.8 million households across England casually rented out part of or their entire home on platforms such as Airbnb in 2017-18. These platforms are part of the “sharing economy” and have opened ...

Home-sharing company Airbnb has sent a full-sized house floating down the River Thames in celebration of London’s Deregulation Act, which passed last month. The act means that Londoners are now free ...

New research from Colliers International and Hotelschool The Hague reveals that nights booked in London with Airbnb rose by 130 per cent to 4.62 million in 2016, from just over 2 million in 2015.