by Brian & Kati Greene | Dec 21, 2019 | Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Vacation Rental Hosts
Listing photos. Ask 100 hosts if they’re important, and you’re liable to get 100 “yeses”, but unfortunately, that doesn’t mean all listings have great photos. Far from it. Let’s take a moment to see just how important listing photos really are to the success of a...
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by Dillon DuBois | Dec 6, 2019 | Homepage, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
Over a decade after Airbnb’s inception in 2008, it’s become patently clear that short-term vacation rentals can be extremely lucrative. There are, of course, many locations where managing a vacation rental makes little sense, and still other places where marginal...
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by Dillon DuBois | Nov 14, 2019 | Homepage, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
A Crowded Market: Recognizing the Need for Smart Airbnb Analytics Over the last decade, Airbnb analytics show that vacation rentals have skyrocketed from a far-fetched booking alternative to a sector that is now growing nearly twice as fast as traditional hotels. The...
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by Caitlyn Milton | Aug 27, 2019 | Homepage, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, MarketMinder API, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Scaling Enterprise, Vacation Rental Hosts
It can be hard to let go. Especially when it comes to something with such a direct impact on your livelihood and lifestyle. That’s right, I’m talking about pricing your vacation rental. Although the temptation to control your own destiny and manage your own pricing is...
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by Caitlyn Milton | Jul 24, 2019 | Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Homepage, Just Starting Out, Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, MarketMinder API, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, Scaling Enterprise, State of the Industry, Tourism Boards and DMOs, Vacation Rental Hosts
In May 2019, Airbnb extended its reach into one of the world’s fastest-growing populations when it launched an Arabic version of its website. Although Airbnb’s main intention was to expand its presence across the Middle East and Northern Africa, the impact may have...
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by Leslie James | Jul 17, 2019 | Homepage, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Scaling Enterprise, Vacation Rental Hosts
Ready to take your revenue management strategies to the next level? AirDNA’s dynamic pricing tool is here! Plus, it’s free for current MarketMinder subscribers! Back in May, we launched an Airbnb pricing tool, which compares your short-term rentals’...
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by Caitlyn Milton | Jun 27, 2019 | Academics, Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Data Partners, Homepage, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, MarketMinder API, Partners, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, Scaling Enterprise, State of the Industry, Tourism Boards and DMOs, Vacation Rental Hosts
Although the division between “traditional” and “alternative” lodging might be clear to consumers, the lines are becoming less clear behind the scenes. In 2018, Airbnb represented 5.5% of total U.S. lodging demand. That might not sound like much, but it represents a...
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by Caitlyn Milton | Jun 3, 2019 | Academics, Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Data Partners, Homepage, Just Starting Out, Market Spotlight, Partners, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, Scaling Enterprise, State of the Industry, Vacation Rental Hosts
Vietnam was recently named the third fastest-growing tourism destination in the world by the United Nations World Tourism Organization, after recording a 29% increase in visitors year-over-year. Vietnam is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula, sharing...
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by Leslie James | May 24, 2019 | Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
AirDNA has just made it infinitely easier to fine tune your Airbnb pricing strategies! Our Airbnb pricing tool combines property data with vacation rental market data, so you can now visualize the difference between your listings and the overall market. Airbnb Pricing...
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by Caitlyn Milton | May 10, 2019 | Academics, Data Partners, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, Savvy Professional, Scaling Enterprise, State of the Industry, Tourism Boards and DMOs, Uncategorized, Vacation Rental Hosts
With summer quickly approaching, many seaside destinations are preparing for a busy season hosting guests from near and afar. A popular vacation area on the East coast of the U.S. is the Outer Banks, which is a series of barrier islands off the coast of North...
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by Caitlyn Milton | Apr 26, 2019 | Academics, Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Data Partners, Homepage, Investment Explorer, Just Starting Out, Market Spotlight, MarketMinder API, Partners, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Regulation, Savvy Professional, Scaling Enterprise, State of the Industry, Tourism Boards and DMOs, Uncategorized
2M Here. 6M There. It’s easy to get swept up in the frenzy of numbers being released from vacation rental listing giants like Airbnb and Booking. Just last week, they shared new listing count figures that show Airbnb coming out on top, giving them additional momentum...
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by Caitlyn Milton | Apr 26, 2019 | Academics, Data Partners, Homepage, Investment Explorer, Just Starting Out, Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, MarketMinder API, Partners, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, Scaling Enterprise, Tourism Boards and DMOs, Vacation Rental Hosts
Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe. With the rise of disruptive vacation rental listing platforms, many are considering a channel management strategy and asking, “which listing platforms are right for me?” The way most hosts or vacation rental managers answer this question is...
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by Caitlyn Milton | Apr 3, 2019 | Academics, Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Data Partners, Just Starting Out, Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, MarketMinder API, Partners, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Regulation, Savvy Professional, Scaling Enterprise, State of the Industry, Tourism Boards and DMOs, Uncategorized, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Mark Saldana | Mar 27, 2019 | Just Starting Out, Property Managers
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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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—which includes listings on Vrbo and sites in the HomeAway family. Through hundreds of data...
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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*...
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by Caitlyn Milton | Dec 3, 2018 | Homepage, Just Starting Out, MarketMinder, MarketMinder API, Property Managers, Uncategorized, Vacation Rental Hosts
UPDATE December 2019: Due to some recent changes within our providers’ calendar system, we’ve temporarily disabled the benchmarking tool within the ‘My Properties’ feature of MarketMinder. You’ll still be able to upload your Airbnb properties to analyze your...
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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 short-term rentals. With one million listings in over 34,000 cities around the globe, Airbnb has created the...
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