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. It runs every week with the same format, so there is no date to wait for.

Start with the whole map. No shortlist and no favourites, comparing markets on revenue, occupancy, supply growth and seasonality until a few stand out.

Narrow to a few markets. Why the numbers point where they point, and what makes one market a different kind of bet rather than simply a better one.

Go find real properties. Actual listings and for-sale properties, not hypotheticals or round numbers.

Run the numbers. Revenue estimates, comps and all, to decide whether a property earns a second look or a straight no.

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.

Anyone weighing up a short-term rental purchase. You will get the most out of it if you are 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, or a real estate agent or broker who needs defensible numbers for clients.

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. If you have already subscribed, come to Wednesday's session instead, which underwrites one specific address against five checks.

Yes. The STR Deal Hunt is completely free and open to anyone. No AirDNA subscription is required to register or attend.

Every Thursday at 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT. The session repeats weekly with the same agenda, so you register once and join whichever Thursday works for you.

30 minutes, with no slides. Roughly half on narrowing down a market and half on evaluating real properties inside it.

Jamie Lane, AirDNA's Chief Economist, along with the AirDNA data team. Jamie also hosts the STR Data Lab podcast.

Yes. Everyone who registers receives an on-demand walkthrough video by email after the session, whether or not they attended live. 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.

Yes, please do. Bring a market or an address and we may use yours as the live example for the week.

No. The session starts from an empty map and assumes no prior experience with AirDNA or with short-term rental data.

Yes, two more. Tuesday at 12:00pm ET is How to Price With Confidence, a working session on AirDNA Adapt. Wednesday at 12:30pm ET is How to Avoid a Bad STR Buy, a full underwrite run live for people who have already subscribed. All three are listed on the AirDNA webinars page.