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...

This paper examines the evolution the internet sector's economic contribution and offers more insight into the nature of those contributions over the past several years. This kind of analysis has not been attempted before. In this section, the report provides a summary of key economic estimates...

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...