Short-Let Research & Data Consultant
Hassam Rafkey
Research and development on the London short-let market — independent consultant to LPLaundry, not an employee of it. The figures, the method and the tools on LPLaundry's Airbnb pages come from his work.
Hassam Rafkey researches the London short-let market: how many properties are letting in a given street, how often they turn over, what that means for the linen behind them. He has worked in and around Airbnb and short-let laundry for 15 years.
He is not part of LPLaundry. He works with it as an outside consultant, and the Airbnb pages on this site are built on the data and the method he supplies — the radius the figures describe, how a changeover is counted, how many sets a property has to hold before its busy month.
What he researches
- Short-let demand researchActive listings, bedroom mix, occupancy and seasonality for an area, drawn from published data rather than estimates.
- Turning demand into linenHow estimated nights become changeovers, and how changeovers become par levels — three sets per bed, and the spares a busy month needs.
- Method and definitionsWhat "active" means, why a figure backed by fewer than ten listings is dropped, and why every number here describes an area and never one building.
- Development of the toolsThe profit and linen calculator, the market report and the downloadable linen plan all run on his figures.
Where the data comes from
- Inside Airbnb — listings, occupancy and review dates, CC BY 4.0
- OpenStreetMap — building names, streets and stations, ODbL
- Nothing is scraped from Airbnb, and no host, listing or address is ever named.
Pages built on this research
- Airbnb laundry across London — the national page
- The Airbnb profit and linen calculator — with the free linen plan and calendar
- Airbnb laundry in Paddington — one of 1,034 area pages
A figure on one of those pages look wrong? Tell us — it is checked against the source and corrected.