# Whole homes or spare rooms

> The spare-room story is now the minority one.

- Category: Housing
- Cadence: quarterly
- Status: Published on a quarterly cadence.
- Dataset key: `airbnb-room-types`
- Source: [Inside Airbnb](https://insideairbnb.com/get-the-data/)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0 — [terms](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/whole-homes-or-spare-rooms](https://londongraph.com/g/whole-homes-or-spare-rooms)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/whole-homes-or-spare-rooms](https://londongraph.com/data/whole-homes-or-spare-rooms)

## Methodology

London listings by room type. The platform's founding idea was the spare room; two thirds of London's listings are now the entire property. Shares of listings, not of nights let or of income.

## Visualisations

- [Room-type share](https://londongraph.com/g/whole-homes-or-spare-rooms): Compare the published mix of entire homes, private rooms, shared rooms and hotel rooms.
- [Ordered shares](https://londongraph.com/g/whole-homes-or-spare-rooms?view=ordered-share): Read the room-type composition on one common 100% scale.
- [Price bands](https://londongraph.com/g/whole-homes-or-spare-rooms?view=price-bands): Compare nightly-price bands within each room type. Caveat: Published price is unavailable for some listings and is not realised revenue.
- [Borough price gaps](https://londongraph.com/g/whole-homes-or-spare-rooms?view=borough-prices): Compare median published nightly price by borough and room type where at least 20 listings are priced.

## Citation guidance

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