Barcelona Tourist Rental Market Data
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Exploring the Barcelona Airbnb experience provides valuable data and insights intended to empower communities to understand, decide, and control the role of short-term residential rentals for tourists. This product offers detailed information on thousands of Airbnb listings across Barcelona, including raw and carefully processed files. It is designed to facilitate research and analysis into the market dynamics, host behavior, pricing structures, and geographic distribution of short-term rentals within the city.
Columns
The dataset contains a rich array of fields covering various aspects of the listings and their hosts:
- id, listing_url, name, summary, space, description: Unique identification and detailed textual information about the accommodation provided by the host.
- neighbourhood_overview, access: Contextual details about the local area, attractions, and instructions for property entry.
- host_id, host_name, host_since: Unique identifiers and biographical details regarding the person or entity managing the listing.
- host_response_time, host_response_rate, host_is_superhost: Metrics tracking host performance, responsiveness, and status (with 19% holding Superhost status).
- street, neighbourhood, latitude, longitude: Location specifics, including geographic coordinates and cleansed names for standardized analysis. Eixample is the most common neighbourhood represented.
- property_type, room_type: Classification of the accommodation, such as apartment or private room.
- accommodates, bathrooms, bedrooms, beds: Capacity and physical dimensions of the listing. The average listing accommodates 3.35 guests and has 1.57 bedrooms.
- amenities, price, cleaning_fee, minimum_nights, maximum_nights: Financial and booking parameters, including the nightly cost and required stay duration.
- availability_X: Columns detailing availability over 30, 60, 90, and 365-day periods.
- number_of_reviews, review_scores_rating: Guest feedback metrics. The mean review score rating is 91.1.
Distribution
The data product includes two files:
barcelona_listings.csv, which contains the raw, unmodified data, and Cleaned_airbnb_barcelona.csv, which has been processed for data quality and consistency, including column selection and transformation, making it suitable for immediate analysis and modelling. The cleaned file contains approximately 19.8 thousand valid records. The majority of listings are Apartments (85%), followed by Serviced apartments (3%), with Private rooms (51%) being the slightly most frequent room type over Entire homes/apartments (48%). Data updates are expected annually.Usage
This resource is excellent for developing predictive models, particularly in Regression and Linear Regression applications, focusing on market price estimation. It supports Business intelligence studies related to the hospitality sector. Ideal applications include:
- Analysing the economic impact of short-term rentals on residential areas.
- Developing models to predict listing price based on location, size, and host quality.
- Mapping geographical clusters of different property and room types.
- Monitoring shifts in host response times and Superhost prevalence over time.
Coverage
The data focuses exclusively on Airbnb listings within the city of Barcelona, Spain. Coverage includes geographical location details (latitude and longitude), host characteristics, property specifications, pricing, and availability up to 365 days in the future. The data provides a static snapshot, with an expected annual update frequency.
License
CC0: Public Domain
Who Can Use It
- Policy Analysts and Urban Planners: To assess the impact of short-term tourism on housing availability and residential communities.
- Data Scientists and Analysts: For training machine learning models related to pricing, sentiment analysis (using listing descriptions and summaries), or predicting booking activity.
- Researchers: To study host behaviour, market maturity, and the relationship between host verification and review scores.
- Real Estate Market Professionals: To benchmark rental prices and understand localized market saturation.
Dataset Name Suggestions
- Barcelona Tourist Rental Market Data
- Inside Airbnb Listings Barcelona
- Catalan Short-Term Rental Insights
- Barcelona Host and Property Metrics
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Original Data Source: Barcelona Tourist Rental Market Data
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