Airbnb: Council concern over sublets

When does your home become a guesthouse? Its a question councils in central London are increasingly wanting answers to.

They fear the spectacular growth of the short term home-letting website Airbnb is radically changing the housing market. And one council leader told Channel 4 News of the growing danger that some tenants were using the site to fraudulently sublet their property.


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