Our paper Airbnb, buy-to-let investment and tourism-driven displacement is online in Environment and Planning A. The paper explores whether short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb channel investment in residential real estate and the way in which the local community is affected by the proliferation of apartments rented to visitors. Our research did not find evidence of a sharing economy. Rather, it found a process of buy-to-let investment in which different players make profits from rents and displace residents with tourists.
Link to the open access version of the paper