What is Rental Arbitrage? Rental arbitrage is the act of renting a property long-term and then re-renting it on a short-term basis on Airbnb, HomeAway, or other vacation rental platforms. If you’re a short-term rental host or vacation rental manager, you’ve likely...
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Analyzing data of any kind on a macro level can be dizzying. At AirDNA, we analyze a heaping 1 billion new data points on the global short-term holiday rental industry every day. We’re always on the lookout for fresh ways to use and present it for the thousands of...
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If you’re a host or vacation rental manager, you’ve likely weighed the pros and cons of listings your properties across various platforms such as Airbnb, HomeAway, Vrbo, and others. While Airbnb and HomeAway are competing platforms, the difference between Vrbo and...
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In the past few years, short-term rentals have taken off worldwide, with both traditional resort markets and urban areas becoming hot spots for investment. While we’ve traditionally focused on the best places to buy a vacation rental property in the U.S., if you...
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March 2019 marked a huge milestone for AirDNA. We increased our total tracked vacation rental listings by 21%, thanks to the addition of over 1,500,000 HomeAway listings—which includes listings on Vrbo and sites in the HomeAway family. Through hundreds of data...
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Welcome to MarketMinder! This is your beginner’s guide to unleashing the power of the world’s most comprehensive vacation rental data. MarketMinder features over twenty-five metrics, such as the number of rentals, listing growth, and property sizes. Property-level and...
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After an extended backpacking trip opened my eyes to the untapped revenue potential of Airbnb, I realized that Airbnb hosts needed better data to identify market opportunities and optimize the performance of their short-term rental listings. We launched AirDNA in 2015...
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Most Airbnb hosts select a cancellation policy based on their own level of comfort and risk tolerance, not as a strategic part of overall revenue optimization. But just as other ancillary settings like minimum night stay are becoming actively managed, maybe there’s...
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While Greece has always been a popular vacation rental market, the country has seen a significant travel boom in recent years with even urban areas such as Athens transforming into hot tourist destinations. In 2018, Greece saw record numbers, with 33 million people...
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Understanding the pace in which guests are booking short-term rentals is a critical part of any host or property manager’s pricing strategy. Whether it’s gearing up for normal annual seasonality, a major annual event, or a special one-time city-wide celebration,...
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Super Bowl LIII is just days away, and if you’ve been reading any of the articles about Airbnb Super Bowl listings in Atlanta, you would be led to believe hosts are making thousands of dollars per night from football fans who are flooding the town this weekend. A...
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What Is a Percentile? A percentile is the percent of people, from 0% to 100%, that fall below that number in any set of data. In vacation rental data, percentiles are used to rank performance of properties across a market by occupancy and ADR. Knowing how your...
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The biggest day-to-day decision any host or property manager needs to make on a regular basis is what are the optimal daily rates for their rental properties. This is often a daunting task that relies heavily on intuition and historical occupancy with little insight...
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If you want to expand your vacation rental portfolio — or even purchase your very first property — knowing the best places to buy vacation rental property is the first step to growing your business. Not all short-term rental markets are created equal, and there can...
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RevPAR Formula In hotel reporting, RevPAR is Revenue Per Available Room and is calculated by multiplying the Average Daily Rate (ADR) by the occupancy rate. For Airbnb and HomeAway listings in MarketMinder, RevPAR is the Revenue Per Available Rental and is calculated...
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Over the past several months, the AirDNA team has been collecting user feedback and working with a group of beta testers on a much-anticipated MarketMinder enhancement. Today, we are excited to announce My Properties, the next step in our ongoing commitment to...
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How to Calculate ADR ADR or Average Daily Rate is calculated by dividing the total revenue earned by the host for the entire reservation by the number of booked nights. As part of our ongoing series exploring short-term vacation rental metrics, this blog post takes a...
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What is Occupancy Rate? Occupancy rate for a short-term vacation rental is the number of booked nights divided by the sum of the available nights and booked nights. Whether you’re new to short-term vacation rentals or an industry pro, it’s important to understand the...
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Hopefully by now you’ve seen some aspect of our new brand – friendly colors, a streamlined logo, or an easier-to-navigate website – via our educational emails or at our VRMA presentation in Vegas earlier this week (slides can be found here, for all of you...
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How do we develop our short-term vacation rental data methodology? We only report active vacation rental properties. AirDNA collects short-term vacation rental data from hundreds of sources, including Airbnb and HomeAway, to build a comprehensive view of the...
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AirDNA founder and CEO Scott Shatford has joined the board of advisors for Domio, along with Chairman of Real Estate at Greenhill & Co Richard Lieb. Domio is a tech-enabled hospitality company professionalizing the travel rental market. Offering “the...
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As Airbnb and private accommodations have become a firm fixture in the worlds of travel and hospitality, increasing numbers of investors are taking advantage of opportunities presented by the vacation rental real estate market. AirDNA tracks the daily performance of...
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The MarketMinder product that you know and love has gotten a facelift. Now it’s even easier to use MarketMinder’s real estate investment analytics to price your vacation rentals effectively, evaluate the competition in your market, analyze the performance...
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Egypt’s tourism industry is experiencing a New Golden Age for vacation rentals. Several years of political unrest and a wave of terrorist attacks affected not just government stability and local communities, but had the damaging knock-on effect of putting off...
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While AirDNA featured an Australian treehouse as one of Airbnb hottest rentals earlier this year and released an in-depth analysis on the best cities to buy vacation home rental properties, we haven’t spent a lot of time focusing on short-term rentals in...
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Industry-leading short-term rental data provider AirDNA has sent a cease and desist letter to the New York City Comptroller’s office regarding a report released last Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 on the grounds of misrepresentation of data and violation of AirDNA Terms of...
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The world’s leading provider of short-term rental data and analytics AirDNA disputes the conclusions drawn by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer in a report released on Thursday, May 3rd, 2018. The report, which incorrectly interpreted AirDNA data to make...
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Airbnb launched their Superhost program in 2016 to reward their most devoted hosts with a special VIP status. Beyond just a feather in the cap, They stated that hosts who achieved Airbnb Superhost status would reap benefits such as improved search placement, better...
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Unforgettable adventures are made from more than just amazing destinations. If you’ve ever dreamed of sleeping amongst lush trees while perched in a treehouse, retreating deep within an exotic cave’s crevasses, being the ruler of a castle, or sprawling out on...
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Want to see the best places to buy a vacation rental property? View 2018 Analysis AirDNA released the first data-driven analysis of the best cities to buy a vacation rental property in 2015. Since then, that article has been a resource for over half a million aspiring...
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Airbnb launched its Business Travel Ready program to lure professional travelers away from hotels in 2015. Initially, the program had its skeptics. Would business travelers be willing to ditch their loyalty programs, change their booking habits, and adopt a radically...
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Since Airbnb launched in August of 2008, large numbers of travelers are choosing short-term rentals as their accommodation over traditional hotels. And with the number of properties available on the platform shooting up around the world, Airbnb enters an uncertain...
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AirDNA is excited to announce the launch of MarketMinder, a breakthrough competitive intelligence and vacation rental analytics tool built to empower both beginners and seasoned Airbnb entrepreneurs worldwide with the data to make smarter decisions. As one of the...
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Executive Summary Berlin, Barcelona, San Francisco and Santa Monica have imposed tough regulations on Airbnb hosts and the platform, in an attempt to curb the short-term rental market. By utilizing differences-in-differences and log regression methodologies, this...
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Airbnb offers fantastic opportunities for people looking to invest in real estate. With over 150 million guests making trips to 65,000 cities around the world, investing in Airbnb rentals is quickly becoming a new asset class for savvy investors. AirDNA has spent the...
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While trying to book an Airbnb a couple weeks ago I had a revelation. Booking a good Airbnb is hard! There are so many choices these days. You can spend hours browsing photos and reading reviews trying to find the perfect place. Making things even more difficult is...
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Here at AirDNA, we spend about 1% of our time writing blog posts and about 99% of our time working on the accuracy of our data. So when Airbnb publicly release numbers, we sit up; take notice; and compare our data to see how accurate it is. The results show we can...
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Airbnb is a disruptive force of nature. With room nights booked growing over a 100% each year, it is only a matter of time before hotel properties start to truly feel the impact. The question is no longer IF Airbnb will disrupt hotel profitability, but WHO is going to...
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Airbnb has exceeded just about everyone’s expectations. In eight short years, they’ve progressed from renting out a single air mattress in a San Francisco apartment to accommodating over 80 million travelers across 34,000 cities. Hotel executives that once...
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See how AirDNA’s tools can help deliver incredible returns on Airbnb investing, with our top-to-bottom guide to picking out 39% IRR / 31% cash-on-cash return investments. Airbnb investing is delivering great returns across the world. A whole new asset class is...
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The Republican Convention and Democratic Convention are going to be held in held in Cleveland and Philadelphia, respectively, in the coming weeks and although most residents aren’t thrilled by the candidates, many of them are excited to make some extra income...
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Customer: David Malka, Better Vacations Solution: AirDNA helps Better Vacations identify the top performing market and confidently make short-term rental investments Results: Better Vacations was able to test new markets and view accurate occupancy rates and annual...
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Savvy real estate investors have realized the massive opportunity that Airbnb has created for investment in short-term rental properties. According to the National Association of Realtors, 1.13 million people bought a home in the U.S. last year with the intention of...
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It’s never been easier to embark on a career as a vacation rental manager. You don’t need to create a website, set up a payment system, or pay for marketing. Platforms like Airbnb take care of these things for you. As the barriers to entry have come down, people from...
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With so much bad Airbnb data circulating the web this past year, AirDNA has decided to look back upon 2015 to set the record straight and tell the true Airbnb story. AirDNA has been analyzing the short-term rental market for two years and tracks the performance of...
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I wrote The Airbnb Expert’s Playbook after running several highly successful Airbnb properties, I wanted to share my findings with other vacation rental entrepreneurs. Four years later and AirDNA is now the leading provider of short-term rental data and...
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AirDNA has rolled over to the Airbnb Open in Paris to report to our loyal readers what the future portends for Airbnb Hosts. The Airbnb Open is a gathering of 6,000 of the most dedicated hosts in the world (dedicated in that they footed the bill to go to Paris and...
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The Airbnb Data Shows That Airbnb Could Annihilate Hotels In July 1914, Europe basked in a glorious summer with a backdrop of the most prosperous, wealthiest time the continent had ever seen. A crown prince had been assassinated in Sarajevo, but all but the diplomatic...
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“I don’t know who opened the first [Airbnb in Santa Monica], but he was a great man in his way. It was as though some imaginary trader had put into the Forth with a cargo of Glenlivet to discover that the Scots had never heard of whisky. There was a natural appetite,...
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The United States was estimated to make up over 50% of the total Airbnb listings as little as two years ago. After tracking the rise of the Airbnb juggernaut in the United States for over a year, AirDNA realized that the most of the growth in Airbnb rentals was...
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Want to see the best places to buy an Airbnb vacation rental? Check out our more recent blog posts from 2017 and 2018. View 2018 Analysis A huge number of folks write to us wanting to know the best places in the U.S. to invest in an Airbnb property. In this article,...
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Customers frequently ask, “What cities is the best place to start a new Airbnb vacation rental.” Every city has it’s pro’s and con’s; regulation, seasonality, cost of ownership and so on. We thought we’d let the performance of the...
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New management companies are emerging to assist the more than 1,000,000 new Airbnb hosts looking to improve the performance of their short-term rentals. Traditional vacation property managers have struggled to keep pace with the rapidly evolving industry. Property...
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Airbnb recently released some long overdue calendar enhancements that very few hosts are taking advantage of. Did you know you can set different minimum night stays for peak seasons, or only receive reservation requests for days in the next 6 months? While providing...
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It’s often said that communication is key. When your Airbnb guest first reaches out to you about renting your property, the method, tone, and urgency in which communicate with them will determine whether they want to book with you or not. It’s a crucial time to show...
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Summer is here and Airbnb hosts around the world are scrambling to set the perfect pricing to maximize their revenue during this high-season. Just in time for the summer rush, Airbnb launched a new Pricing Tips tool to help hosts better understand the travel demand in...
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Residents of the 30-plus cities hosting college bowl games this year are cashing in on their homes by renting them out to traveling football fans via Airbnb. With one million listings in over 34,000 cities around the globe, Airbnb has created the largest and most...
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