Disrupting the regional housing market: Airbnb in New Zealand

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Informa UK Limited
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English
Date
2019
Authors
Campbell M
McNair H
Mackay M
Perkins HC
Abstract

Therole of accommodation-sharing platforms, suchas Airbnb,is seen as a disruptionto more conventional accommodation providers and rental markets in many cities and regions worldwide. This Regional Graphic focuses on New Zealand, showing a snapshot in time of the spatial distribution of the accommodation provided by Airbnb. What the map shows are patterns of statistically significant mildly positive clustering (Moran’s I=0.33, p≤0.05) of the Airbnb locations. The ‘traditional’ tourism hotspots, mainly in the South Island of New Zealand, for example, Wanaka or Queenstown (Queenstown Hill, Lake Hayes South, Sunshine Bay), and the largest city, Auckland (Central West, East, Habourside and Waiheke Island), are shown. A few of the highest ranked places also feature a high intensity per usually resident person. For example, Queenstown Hill has 204 Airbnb listings per 1000 residents. The area with the highest number of Airbnbs is Wanaka, a smaller South Island tourist destination. A key issue for future research is how short-term rentals pose a challenge to local authorities who collect property taxes based on the value of the property, with some local authorities (e.g., Auckland) proposing or enacting specific by-laws in relation to Airbnb.

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Campbell M, McNair H, Mackay M, Perkins HC (2019). Disrupting the regional housing market: Airbnb in New Zealand. Regional Studies, Regional Science. 6(1). 139-142.
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regional development, regional housing market, spatial, housing affordability, local tax, tourism, regional inequality
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Field of Research::16 - Studies in Human Society::1604 - Human Geography
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© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.