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 | Jul 3, 2019 | Academics, Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, Savvy Professional, State of the Industry, Tourism Boards and DMOs
TTRA MELBOURNEAn Update on Australia’s Holiday Rental MarketEarlier this year, we released an in-depth analysis of Australia’s holiday rental industry. Since then, the country has seen a year-over-year increase in supply, demand, occupancy, and overall revenue...
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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 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 | Homepage, MarketMinder, Partners, Property Managers, Regulation, Savvy Professional, Uncategorized, Vacation Rental Hosts
Short-Term Rental Hosts in Madrid Have Their Eyes Off the Ball As vacation rental hosts in the Spanish capital vastly overcharge for the dates of the Champions League final, they are leaving money on the table and fans without a place to stay. Football fans hoping to...
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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
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by Mark Saldana | May 8, 2019 | Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional
What Is Seasonality? Short-term rental seasonality is the cyclical variance in traveler demand throughout the year that’s unique to each vacation rental market. For example, ski towns experience high demand every winter and relatively low demand every summer....
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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 12, 2019 | Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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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 Mark Saldana | Feb 21, 2019 | Market Spotlight, MarketMinder
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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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 Leslie James | Feb 4, 2019 | Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, State of the Industry, Vacation Rental Hosts
BNB GUEST CONFERENCE IN ATHENS Vacation Rental Market Spotlight: Athens, Greece AirDNA CRO Tom Caton dives into the data to break down market saturation, emerging neighborhoods for investment, professionalization of the vacation rental space, and competitive analysis...
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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 Mark Saldana | Jan 20, 2019 | Homepage, Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Regulation, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Leslie James | Jan 3, 2019 | Academics, MarketMinder, MarketMinder API, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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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 Leslie James | Dec 10, 2018 | Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, Partners, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, Scaling Enterprise, Vacation Rental Hosts
PASS THE KEYS AirDNA Data is Key to Customer Satisfaction and Scaling a VRM into New Rental Markets! Pass the Keys is growing rapidly in the U.K., and has relied on AirDNA data to improve the accuracy of their property forecasts, target new rental markets for...
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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 | Academics, MarketMinder, MarketMinder API, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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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 2, 2018 | Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Data Partners, Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Real Estate Investors
VRMA PRESENTATION Anecdotes and Fake News: Using Data to Effectively Communicate In Regulatory Debates At VRMA International Conference in Las Vegas, AirDNA used Airbnb and HomeAway data in the U.S. to understand vacation rental regulations and unpack some of 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 26, 2018 | Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Investment Explorer, MarketMinder, MarketMinder API
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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by Leslie James | Oct 24, 2018 | Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, Regulation, Savvy Professional, Scaling Enterprise, Tourism Boards and DMOs
VISITBERLIN How is lodging inventory changing in the German market? AirDNA’s custom reporting for DMOs has helped VisitBerlin better understand lodging in their market, and seamlessly combine short-term rental data with hotel-specific STR reports. ...
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by Leslie James | Oct 23, 2018 | Data Partners, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Scaling Enterprise
GUESTABLE Find out how Guestable increased their rental revenue by 20%! AirDNA’s MarketMinder has enabled Guestable to successfully expand into new markets and achieve 90th percentile returns, all without sacrificing the quality of their optimization work....
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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 | 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 30, 2018 | Homepage, Investment Explorer, Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, Real Estate Investors, Scaling Enterprise
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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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 Abigail Long | Jul 27, 2018 | Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Leslie James | Jul 9, 2018 | Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Scott Shatford | Apr 2, 2018 | MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Scott Shatford | Dec 22, 2017 | Investment Explorer, Market Spotlight, MarketMinder, Real Estate Investors, Scaling Enterprise
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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by Scott Shatford | Dec 22, 2017 | Homepage, MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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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 26, 2016 | MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Scott Shatford | Sep 14, 2016 | Custom Vacation Rental Data and Reports, MarketMinder, Regulation, Tourism Boards and DMOs
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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by Scott Shatford | Sep 6, 2016 | Investment Explorer, MarketMinder, Real Estate Investors, Savvy Professional
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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by Scott Shatford | Jan 7, 2016 | Academics, MarketMinder
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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by Scott Shatford | Jan 4, 2016 | MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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by Scott Shatford | Jun 6, 2015 | MarketMinder, Property Managers, Savvy Professional, Vacation Rental Hosts
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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