Recommendation to Airbnb - add different types homes (townhouses, duplex, etc) to search bar options

Armand0
Level 1
Burnaby, Canada

Recommendation to Airbnb - add different types homes (townhouses, duplex, etc) to search bar options

I'm having trouble using the Airbnb search engine in order to find town houses in the Vancouver area. I would like to do this in order to look at comparables so that in the future when I list my town house I know the Avg current rate being charged. Currently Airbnb only offers differentiation between price of entire homes/apt, private rooms, and shared rooms. 

 

Anyone else think this would be helpful? 

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Ed-and-Hugh0
Level 10
Miami, FL

It's not clear what the point is. When someone wants to book a place, they either want privacy (entire home) or to be with a host (private or shared room). I don't see guests being too particular about getting a specific type of construction. Plus, those terms like town house apparently mean different things in different locations. While there is a big difference in price between a room in a shared house and an entire home, there is little difference in price between an apartment, townhouse, or house in the same area with a similar size. I don't think it would be very helpful to either hosts or guests, and would just have a lot of opportunity for confusion (what people in one location call a townhouse someone in another location calls a brownstone. In New York, they call a 2 story single apartment a duplex while in most places a duplex refers to 2 separate units with an attached wall. This would be way too confusing, and would not offer any benefit in terms of determining pricing.