Short-Term Rental and Vacation Rental News

Kindred's challenge is to help take home-swaps from a niche market into a more mainstream product.

Short-term rentals are no longer a frontier business. Outside of a small group of disciplined operators, the sector has settled into a slow, operational grind that favors local execution over national ambition.

Those invested in the current model aren’t happy when we point out a simple truth: The magic of short-term rentals has been professionalized out of existence.

Consider Airbnb's partnership with CookUnity an experiment to see if there is a market for such services.

Airbnb’s struggle to translate technology into better stays mirrors the broader sector’s problem — digital scale without physical control limits how innovative short-term rentals can be.

Kasa's takeover of Mint House creates the largest U.S. manager of apartment hotels after a wave of failures in the U.S. segment.

Whether it's an executive order or legislation, any impact of a ban on institutional investors in the single-family home market would depend on the fine print.

For today’s short-term rental hosts and operators, margins are tightening as the market matures. As tax and regulatory issues continue to be a moving target, new research underscores why compliance is emerging as one of the most consequential and underestimated issues facing the STR sector today.

A change is possible, but for now prospects for altering New York City's quasi ban of short-term rentals look darker than an alleyway in the Bowery.

One thousand owner contracts likely attracted interest from other property managers besides Evolve. These contracts fit in with Evolve's business, and not so much for Casago.