by Caitlyn Milton | Mar 12, 2019 | Academics, Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Just Starting Out, Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, Scaling Enterprise, State of the Industry, Tourism Boards and DMOs, Uncategorized, Vacation Rental Hosts
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. Through hundreds of data partnerships, AirDNA now tracks daily performance and future demand for...
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by Caitlyn Milton | Mar 7, 2019 | Academics, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Uncategorized, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Scott Shatford | Mar 4, 2019 | Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Homepage, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Caitlyn Milton | Feb 25, 2019 | Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, MarketMinder API, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Leslie James | Feb 4, 2019 | Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Just Starting Out, Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Caitlyn Milton | Feb 1, 2019 | Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, MarketMinder API, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Mark Saldana | Feb 1, 2019 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Leslie James | Jan 31, 2019 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Leslie James | Jan 31, 2019 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Mark Saldana | Jan 24, 2019 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Mark Saldana | Jan 24, 2019 | Homepage, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Leslie James | Dec 14, 2018 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
AIRDNA The Airbnb Expert’s Playbook The Airbnb Expert’s Playbook provides a detailed, step-by-step guide to starting, running, optimizing, and growing your short-term vacation rental business. Download the report. Name* First Last Company Name*Email* Phone** I...
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by Caitlyn Milton | Dec 3, 2018 | Homepage, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, MarketMinder API, Property Managers, Uncategorized, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Caitlyn Milton | Nov 26, 2018 | Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, MarketMinder API, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Leslie James | Nov 1, 2018 | Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, Scaling Enterprise, State of the Industry, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Leslie James | Oct 15, 2018 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Leslie James | Oct 15, 2018 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Leslie James | Oct 15, 2018 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Leslie James | Oct 15, 2018 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Leslie James | Oct 15, 2018 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Leslie James | Oct 15, 2018 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Leslie James | Oct 15, 2018 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Leslie James | Oct 15, 2018 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Leslie James | Oct 15, 2018 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Leslie James | Oct 15, 2018 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Leslie James | Oct 15, 2018 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Leslie James | Oct 15, 2018 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Leslie James | Oct 15, 2018 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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by Leslie James | Aug 1, 2018 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Scott Shatford | Jan 3, 2018 | Just Starting Out, Market Spotlight, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Scott Shatford | Aug 3, 2017 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Scott Shatford | Oct 28, 2016 | Just Starting Out, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Scott Shatford | Jul 15, 2016 | Just Starting Out, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Scott Shatford | Mar 22, 2016 | Just Starting Out, Market Spotlight, Real Estate Investors, Tourism Boards and DMOs, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Scott Shatford | Nov 15, 2015 | Just Starting Out, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Scott Shatford | Jun 26, 2015 | Just Starting Out, Real Estate Investors, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Scott Shatford | Jun 26, 2015 | Just Starting Out, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Scott Shatford | Jun 6, 2015 | Just Starting Out
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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