The number of Airbnb ads is up sharply everywhere in France, except in the country’s largest cities. This is one of the lessons of the study conducted by the ParisVSBnb collective.
There is no shortage of accommodation for rent on the Airbnb platform, far from it. Even if the platform maintains a culture of secrecy regarding the number of ads posted on the French version of its service, the ParisVSBnb collective has identified all the properties offered on Airbnb, over the first six months of 2023. Our colleagues fromActu.fr had exclusive access to the results. And these are full of lessons.
We are slowly approaching one million Airbnb listings in France
ParisVSBnb, which defines itself as a ” citizen observatory of the impact of the proliferation of Airbnb-type housing on the living environment of residents in Paris “, did the accounts. The collective claims that Airbnb France totals some 750,000 ads. That is 150,000 more than in 2021 and… 720,000 more than in 2013.
To recover the data, ParisVSBnb used the technique of data scraping, which is a kind of web mining, to pull information from a website. So what is the evolution of Airbnb accommodation on the French map today?
If Airbnb is progressing everywhere in France, it is in any case not (or more) thanks to the large French cities. In Paris, the number of ads on the platform fell by 31% between 2021 and 2023, falling below 25,000, whereas there were around 35,000 two years ago.
Cities that impose more constraints on renters see the number of Airbnb listings decrease
There is also a drop in Marseille (-23.5%), Lyon (-59%) and Montpellier (-32%). What do these three cities have in common with Paris? Each now applies constraints to Airbnb hosts, such as having a mandatory registration number, or reducing the number of properties that can be rented out.
For other cities, such as Nantes (+48%), Clermont-Ferrand (+97%), Le Havre (+61%), Le Mans (+119%), Annecy (+25%), Bourges (+90 %) or departments, regions and areas such as Corsica (+9.5%), Brittany (+90%), the Arcachon basin (+22%) and Cotentin (+105%), a sharp increase is observed each time.
We also know that less than 1 ad out of 10 concerns rooms in private homes. A little trick (because some “room” advertisements actually hide an “entire accommodation”) which allows the lessor not to be limited to 120 nights per year, an obligation which weighs on the lessors of entire accommodation, and which aims to limit the extent of short-term rental, which disrupts local economies. Some initiatives, particularly parliamentary, are also underway to further regulate rentals on the Airbnb, Abritel or Booking platforms.
Source : Actu.frParisVSBnb, Clubic
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