Not sure the one in the article was "value for money" - £217 per night for a flat with a crumbling balcony in a multi-occupancy Regency terrace in Montpelier Road, Brighton?? That's over £6k a month. Even given Brighton property prices/rentals, someone is creaming it here, which makes the...
Well this will be a test of whether they are indeed liable. My view is that the growth of these kinds of web-mediated intermediaries for services raises a whole set of regulatory and legal questions that haven't been sorted out yet (because the relevant law predates the use of this kind of...
I remember hearing about this balcony collapse at the time, and seeing the wreckage in Montpelier Road. Didn't realise that Airbnb were quite such a bunch of shysters though
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/29/airbnb-denies-liability-after-guests-plunge-two-storeys-from-balcony?