The other Airbnbs: alternative home-sharing rentals

New York

WHAT Airbnb has popularised - the peer-to-peer rental of apartments, homes and spare bedrooms - the market has embellished with a roster of new and growing services that offer home sharing.

In a sign of a maturing market, these alternatives to Airbnb often carve potential users into niches, targeting, for example, interior design fans or gay travellers. They also reduce the volume of results users generally have to wade through to find the perfect home rental.

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