Beyond ninety nights
London caps short lets at ninety nights a year. Most calendars are open for longer.
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| Series | Period or category | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Value | Bexley | 76.6 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Havering | 75.4 | % of entire homes |
| Value | City of London | 73.7 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Hillingdon | 72.9 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Enfield | 71.6 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Barking and Dagenham | 71.4 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Harrow | 69.5 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Redbridge | 68.9 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Bromley | 67.5 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Croydon | 65.8 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Sutton | 64.9 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Westminster | 64.3 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Barnet | 62.6 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Kensington and Chelsea | 62.4 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Newham | 61.3 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Hounslow | 60.6 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Greenwich | 60.5 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Brent | 59.4 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Ealing | 59.4 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Camden | 59.1 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Hammersmith and Fulham | 56.2 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Merton | 52.5 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Kingston upon Thames | 51.2 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Richmond upon Thames | 49.8 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Haringey | 49.2 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Tower Hamlets | 48.8 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Wandsworth | 48 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Southwark | 46.5 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Lewisham | 46.3 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Islington | 45.3 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Waltham Forest | 45 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Lambeth | 42.3 | % of entire homes |
| Value | Hackney | 38.7 | % of entire homes |
Methodology
Entire-home listings whose calendar shows more than 90 nights available in the next year, as a share of all entire-home listings in the borough. London is the only English city with a statutory short-let limit — 90 nights without planning permission — and this is the share of listings advertising beyond it. IMPORTANT: availability is what the host has left open, not what was booked. A calendar open for two hundred nights may have been let for twenty. This is evidence of intent, not proof of breach. Boroughs with fewer than 50 entire-home listings are excluded as too small to give a stable share.
Provenance
- Source
- Inside Airbnb
- Cadence
- quarterly
- Engine
- comparison
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0