Woodstock, Illinois Ends Airbnb Tax Break Starting Jan. 1
Woodstock, Illinois will start taxing short-term rentals on January 1, closing an exemption that let Airbnb and Vrbo hosts skip the lodging tax hotels already pay.
Pricing, ADR and RevPAR
Airbnb Raises Outlook as Q2 Revenue Outpaces Bookings Growth
Airbnb says second-quarter revenue climbed 17% while nights and experiences booked rose 10%, a gap that points to higher spending per trip rather than just more guests.
Independent Travelers Booked More in July, Later Than Ever
Direct-booking travelers filled more July stays than a year earlier but waited longer to commit, a trend rental operators are seeing echoed in their own calendars.
Big Three Platforms' Earnings Calls Set to Signal Demand Shifts
Airbnb, Booking Holdings and Expedia Group report second-quarter 2026 results in the coming weeks, and the numbers behind the headlines matter more to hosts than the headlines themselves.
Sloppy Compliance, Not Bad Pricing, Sinks Airbnb Hosts
The listings that get fined or delisted usually fail at permits, taxes and calendar management, not at the nightly rate.
Argyll and Bute Weighs Visitor Levy, Hosts Warn of Fallout
Scotland's self-catering trade body has told Argyll and Bute Council that a new overnight charge could hit rural hosts already absorbing steep licensing costs and falling bookings.
Delaware's New 4.5% Rental Tax Narrows Hotel Price Edge
Delaware's new 4.5% short-term rental tax stacks with local levies like Rehoboth Beach's 7% surcharge, pushing the combined bite past 11% in some coastal towns.
EU's 2026 Rental Data Rule Reshapes Investment Math
New EU registration and data-sharing rules due in May 2026, plus city license caps, mean short-term rental buyers now have to underwrite regulation before yield.
September Equinox Splits Booking Calendars by Hemisphere
The September 22 equinox marks the point where Northern Hemisphere hosts should already be repricing for fall shoulder season while Southern Hemisphere operators build toward their own peak.
AirDNA Says Weekend Rate Bumps Are Often Misguided
AirDNA argues hosts should set nightly rates from actual occupancy patterns instead of assuming Friday and Saturday always outperform the rest of the week.
Airbnb's Hotel Push Puts Licensed Rentals at a Disadvantage
Airbnb's expansion into hotel and boutique-lodging inventory puts professional short-term rental operators up against competitors that skip the licensing caps and registration rules increasingly binding STRs.
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.
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 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.
UK Rental Rates Climb, But Autumn Occupancy Is Slipping
Average nightly rates for short-term rentals are running ahead of last year through August and September, but Key Data says softer forward bookings will likely leave revenue per available rental behind last year's pace.
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.