Since 2010, Airbnb has had a significant impact on
the housing market in all tourist cities where it operates. With
a very small investment, Airbnb enables the use of residential
flats for short-term rentals, creating a rent increase that ultimately excludes long-term tenants. Using data drawn from
the Inside Airbnb website, Idealista, and the 2011 Census of
Spain and Portugal, this article first estimates the number of
commercial listings, multi-hosts, and long-term rentals lost
to Airbnb in Barcelona and Lisbon; second, it measures the
potential increase in rents created by Airbnb in specific neighbourhoods in both cities; and finally, it examines the impact
of the covid-19 pandemic on Airbnb activity in these cities.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
