Holiday Accommodation and Second Homes

(asked on 22nd September 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) properties used for airbnb, (b) other short term holiday let properties and (c) the number of second homes (i) nationally and (ii) in York.


Answered by
Christopher Pincher Portrait
Christopher Pincher
This question was answered on 18th October 2021

The Department has not made an estimate of the number of properties used for AirBnB, other short term let properties and the number of second homes nationally or in York.

At household level, the English Housing Survey in 2017/18, reported that 12% of households rented part or all of their home out in the 12 months prior to the survey using home sharing organisations, such as AirBnB. The frequency or length of period is not known.

Some details are available in the 2017/18 Home ownership report at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2017-to-2018-home-ownership and the 2018/19 Second homes fact sheet at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2018-to-2019-second-homes-fact-sheet.

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