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To investigate how the growth and professionalisation of short-term rental platforms influence housing markets, supplier composition, and gentrification in a post-crisis urban setting.

January 20, 2021Environment and Planning A Economy and SpaceOpen Access

Professionalisation of short-term rentals and emergent tourism gentrification in post-crisis Thessaloniki

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PKPhilipp KatsinasQueen Mary University of London

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Mixed-methods analysis reveals commercial investor dominance in short-term rentals drives tenant displacement in post-crisis urban housing, highlighting emergent tourism-driven gentrification.

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To investigate how the growth and professionalisation of short-term rental platforms influence housing markets, supplier composition, and gentrification in a post-crisis urban setting.
Conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with short-term rental hosts and local key informants in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Analyzed quantitative listing data from Airbnb to track host profiles, listing characteristics, and revenue patterns.
Commercial investors progressively displace amateur hosts, driving the professionalisation of short-term rentals and concentrating platform revenues.
Higher rental yields from tourist accommodation result in tenant displacement and induce tourism gentrification within cities previously regarded as ungentrifiable.
The scale of investor activity and the local severity of gentrification depend directly on contextual market conditions and broader urban competitiveness in global tourism.

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Philipp Katsinas (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1f1a354dd54bbcec9146cb https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x21988940

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Mixed-methods analysis reveals commercial investor dominance in short-term rentals drives tenant displacement in post-crisis urban housing, highlighting emergent tourism-driven gentrification.

Professionalisation of short-term rentals and emergent tourism gentrification in post-crisis Thessaloniki

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Professionalisation of short-term rentals and emergent tourism gentrification in post-crisis Thessaloniki

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