The report investigates the impacts of short-term rental services (STRs), such as Airbnb, Homeaway, etc., on the residential housing market and hotel/accommodation market in the city of Seattle, Washington. Our primary goal is to examine critiques against STRs to assess their empirical validity...

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Macro-economics and real estate -- Real estate and recession -- Inflation and real estate -- Retailing and retail property -- Property companies and reits -- Real estate and construction -- Asia -- Real estate returns -- Residential real...