Airbnb gets its one millionth rental listing

Monday, 09 Dec, 2014 0

Airbnb has announced it has reached the milestone of one million properties listed on its website.

With little immediate fanfare, co-founder Brian Chesky tweeted the news yesterday, also saying the short term accommodations platform is attracting 3,000 new listings each day.

At the current rate, Airbnb, founded in 2008, could surpass the two million mark before the end of 2015.

To put this meteoric rise into perspective, the world’s largest traditional hotel operator based on number of rooms, Intercontinental Hotel Group, had an estimated 687,000 rooms under management as of February, 2014.

While the vast majority of Airbnb listings are rooms, apartment rentals, villas and private homes, there are hundreds of more offbeat options such as castles, adapted shipping containers, treehouses, yurts houseboats and cave dwellings.

However Airbnb is not alone in reaching the one-million club.

Rival HomeAway claimed to have surpassed this earlier this year, boasting a combined 1.4 billion square feet of living space across 190 countries.

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