Vacation Rental Buyers Now Take Months to Vet Markets
Brokers say short-term rental investors are stretching pre-purchase research from days to months, checking permit caps and licensing rules before making an offer.
Pricing, ADR and RevPAR
Host-Funded Discounts Now Drive More Than 40% of Vrbo Bookings
Supplier-funded promotions have jumped from roughly a third to more than 40% of Vrbo bookings in a single quarter, which makes the platform's growth partly a transfer from owner margin.
Vrbo's Q2 Growth Traces Back to Host-Funded Discounts
An analysis of Expedia Group's second-quarter 2026 results argues Vrbo's booking gains lean on discounts and promotional funding that hosts pay for, not the platform.
PriceLabs Guide Warns Hosts Not to Trust Airbnb's Auto-Pricing
Dynamic pricing platform PriceLabs has published guidance urging hosts to check Airbnb's Smart Pricing defaults rather than let the algorithm run unsupervised.
Airbnb Loses Appeal, New Orleans Rental Rules Stand
A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to New Orleans' short-term rental ordinance, leaving the city's residency and permitting restrictions in force.
UK Rental Rates Climb as Late-Summer Occupancy Cools
Nightly rates for short-term lets kept rising into late summer even as booking volumes eased from the July peak, sector data trackers report.
UK Hosts Hold the Line on Rates as Bookings Slow
Short-term rental operators are keeping nightly rates steady even as booking volumes soften, resisting the discounting that usually follows a demand dip.
World Cup Host Cities Added $276.7M in Rental Revenue
Short-term rental markets across World Cup 2026 host cities pulled in an extra $276.7 million as operators pushed rates rather than count on occupancy alone.
Airbnb Revenue Climbs as World Cup Demand Lifts Bookings
Airbnb told investors quarterly revenue rose on broad travel demand plus a lift from hosting guests during this summer's World Cup, though the company gave no breakdown of how much either contributed.
Spain's Eclipse Lasts Minutes, Pricing Errors Could Cost a Month
hosts near the path of Spain's August 2026 total solar eclipse risk turning a two-minute event into weeks of empty nights and discounted rates.
Airbnb Lifts Full-Year Outlook as North America Bookings Accelerate
Airbnb's second-quarter results showed revenue up 17 percent and North American booking growth at its fastest pace in nearly three years, prompting a raised full-year forecast.
Airbnb Claims Record Earnings From World Cup Hosting Surge
Airbnb says hosts pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars and more than 150,000 new listings went live for the 2026 World Cup, but the company has released no independent breakdown of the figures.
Airbnb Files Q2 2026 Results, Leaves Hosts Waiting on Detail
Airbnb has published its second-quarter 2026 financial results, but the release gives hosts little to act on until the underlying booking and fee data surface.
Hidden Fees Now the Top Reason Guests Abandon Bookings
A new guest survey finds unclear total pricing beats cleanliness and location as the single biggest reason travellers walk away from a vacation rental booking.
Landing Lets Landlords Turn Empty Units Into Furnished Rentals
Landing has launched Occupancy on Demand, a service that lets multifamily owners furnish and list vacant apartments through its flexible-stay network rather than leaving them empty.
Dubai Air Travel Rebounds While Rental Rates Stay Flat
Dubai's airport traffic keeps climbing but short-term rental occupancy and daily rates aren't keeping pace, squeezing margins for hosts and operators.
Eclipse Bookings Push Spain's Rural Rentals to 70% Occupancy
Rural rental occupancy in Spain is forecast to reach 70% this August, seven points above the same month last year, with bookings tied to next week's solar eclipse adding to the total, according to booking platform Escapada Rural.
Wales Signals Retreat From Its 182-Night Letting Rule
Cardiff is reportedly preparing to ease the annual letting threshold that decides whether a Welsh holiday let pays business rates or council tax.
Airbnb's Q2 Earnings Land Aug. 6, Nights Booked in Focus
Airbnb reports second-quarter results after market close on August 6, and the figures worth tracking are booking volume and summer demand, not the revenue headline.
Sussex County Beach Towns Carry Delaware's Rental Market
Rehoboth, Bethany and Dewey Beach account for most of Delaware's short-term rental income, leaving investors elsewhere in the state chasing a much smaller pool of demand.