Man who let out home on Airbnb for new year suffers £12,000 damage

Nigel Broome's south-east London flat was left trashed with holes punched in walls, flooding in kitchen and window ripped out

The new year had barely rung in when Nigel Broome learned that his decision to rent out a brand new family home on Airbnb to holidaymakers might prove rather more costly than he anticipated.

A week later he is still counting the cost - about 12,000 - after a New Year's Eve party which Broome suggests rivals any other on a list of alleged disaster stories linked to the short-term homeletting site.