Barcelona Airbnb host `manages rentals worth £33,000 a day`
(The Guardian Spain)

Apartment platform accused of becoming marketing site for big hotels and holiday rental agentsOne Airbnb `host` manages a portfolio of 204 apartments in Barcelona worth EUR37,721 (£33,369) a day in rental income during the high season, a data organisation established to look into Spain´s tourist apartment industry has found.The 10 biggest hosts in the Spanish city manage 996 apartments between them, while a further 666 manage five or more, and 3,633 host between two and four, the report by DataHippo found. Altogether the rent for licensed holiday apartments let via Airbnb and other platforms comes to EUR1.5m a day. Continue reading...