There are more than 20,500 Airbnb listings in the broader Cape Town area, most of which are in the city bowl and Atlantic seaboard. There are 10,985 individual hosts in Cape Town – 40% have just 1 listing; 12% have 2 listings.
There are, however, 12 hosts connected to between 50 and 100 listings, and 5 with more than 100 listings. These 17 hosts are linked to 1,443 (17%) of the listings.
Hosts with multiple listings are more likely to be running a business, are unlikely to be living in the property, and may be in violation of short-term rental laws designed to protect residential housing, says advocacy group InsideAirbnb.