Plateau-Mont-Royal and Ville-Marie boroughs are the most popular locations for rentals in Montreal
The McGill study found the Plateau-Mont-Royal and Ville-Marie boroughs are the most popular locations for rentals in Montreal. This photo shows one of the San Francisco-based Sonder property management company's listings in the Plateau neighbourhood.
David Wachsmuth is the Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance at McGill University.
He found that Airbnb listings are taking up available housing stock and inflating rents in Canada's three biggest cities.
The study, titled Short-term Cities: Airbnb's Impact on Canadian Housing Markets, looked at three years of data provided by the analytics firm AirDNA, which offers data to users looking to increase their Airbnb success. The firm collected information on all public transactions, gathering about 80 million data points