What is the STR Deal Hunt?

The STR Deal Hunt is a free 30-minute live webinar, held every Thursday at 2:00pm ET, where AirDNA's Chief Economist Jamie Lane looks for a real short-term rental deal from scratch. There are no slides and no pre-built shortlist. He opens a map, compares markets on revenue, occupancy, supply growth and seasonality until a few stand out, then finds actual properties in those markets and runs the numbers, comps included, to see whether any are worth a second look.

It runs every week with the same format, so there is no date to wait for. Bring a market or an address and it may be the one we use.

How do you pick a short-term rental market?

By comparing markets against each other on four things rather than one: revenue potential, occupancy, supply growth, and seasonality. A market with high revenue and fast-growing supply is a different bet from one with steady revenue and flat supply, and neither is automatically better. AirDNA tracks more than 15 million active listings across more than 120,000 markets with history back to 2014, which is what makes that comparison possible in 30 minutes rather than 30 hours. Doing it live is the first half of every Deal Hunt.

Who is this webinar for?

Anyone weighing up a short-term rental purchase. You will get the most out of it if you are one of these:

• A first-time investor who does not yet know which market to start in
• An investor with a market in mind who wants to pressure-test it against the data
• An existing host looking at a second or third property
• A real estate agent or broker who needs defensible numbers for clients

Do I need an AirDNA subscription to attend?

No. The Deal Hunt is free and open to anyone, including people who have never opened AirDNA. Creating a free AirDNA account takes under a minute and lets you follow along in your own browser, but it is not a requirement to attend.

If you have already subscribed, come to Wednesday's session instead. It assumes a paid account and underwrites one specific address against five checks rather than searching for a property from scratch.

What happens if I cannot make it live?

Register anyway and we will send you the recording. Because the session repeats every Thursday, you can watch a recording first and then join a live week to get your own market or address looked at.

Related resources

• How to Price With Confidence (Tuesdays)
• How to Avoid a Bad STR Buy (Wednesdays)
• Short-term rental market data
• Rentalizer: STR revenue calculator
• Short-term rentals for sale
• All AirDNA webinars