Airbnb removed 300,000 listings. Here is how we keep yours off that list.
Airbnb has been quietly deleting low-quality listings, 300,000 of them at last count.
The defense is boring: somebody walks your house four times a year with a checklist.
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Airbnb built a co-host network. Read the ratings line.
Airbnb's Winter Release launched a marketplace of local co-hosts, and buried one number in it.
Local co-hosts average 4.86 stars. Large property managers average 4.62.
BL2024-478: what Metro wants to change about owner-occupied permits
A bill in front of Metro Council would restrict owner-occupied STR permits to natural persons.
Here is what is in it, what it would mean, and what to do before it moves.
Eight million listings, and a widening pricing gap
Everybody says they use dynamic pricing. Almost nobody says what they do on Monday.
Here is the exact loop we run on every Boost home, every week.
Your permit is the asset. The nightly rate is just the yield.
Owners obsess over the nightly rate and ignore the paperwork that lets them charge it.
New York just spent a year demonstrating which of the two actually decides your revenue.
Nashville's record summer is over. Now comes the part that pays.
Summer 2024 was one of the biggest tourism runs this city has had.
September through early November is where owners quietly give a lot of it back.
Airbnb's biggest week ever, and New York's listings down 82%
Airbnb passed 8 million listings and called July 4 week its highest-revenue week ever in North America.
A year into Local Law 18, New York's short-stay listings are down 82%. Both facts belong in the same post.
CMA Fest put $77.3 million on the street and downtown hotels ran 93.5%
New figures put CMA Fest's direct visitor spending at $77.3 million with downtown hotel occupancy at 93.5%.
Let Freedom Sing added $17.5 million. Here is what to do with numbers like that.
A new STR ordinance landed at Council. What BL2024-478 would change.
BL2024-478 was introduced today: owner-occupied permits limited to natural persons, four residency documents, revocation on sale.
It has not passed. Here is what it would mean if it does.
355,000 people showed up for July 4. Here is how we priced the week.
Let Freedom Sing drew a record crowd of more than 350,000 downtown this year.
A holiday week is not a rate increase. It is four different pricing decisions in a row.
90,000 fans a day: how turnovers actually work during festival week
CMA Fest drew about 90,000 fans a day in June, and NASCAR closed the month out at the Superspeedway.
Peak weeks are won and lost in housekeeping, not in pricing.
Airbnb's indoor camera ban took effect April 30. Check your entryway.
Airbnb announced a full ban on indoor security cameras in March; it took effect on April 30.
Six weeks in, we are still finding devices in homes owners forgot they installed.