Short-Term Rental and Vacation Rental News

Luxury vacation homes and villas subscription service Inspirato and Capital One are working on a commercial deal and strategic partnership.

Vacasa officials said they are focusing on execution and there are modest signs of progress. Still, no one said this would be easy.

We’ve been talking a lot about the intersection of real estate and short-term rentals and today we continue to do so with another related topic: 1031 exchanges.

Airbnb, a household name brand that claims 90% of its platform traffic arrives without marketing, clearly has substantial advantages in international expansion over competitors.

The City of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina earlier this week gave its initial approval to a multi-family housing development plan. The proposal entails the annexation and rezoning of approximately 18 acres of land.

Sonder shareholders will vote in a special meeting September 15 on whether to give the board approval to carry out a reverse stock split — with the split ratio subject…

The ‘Airbnbust’ debacle, which saw one short-term rental data vendor showing plunging host revenue way deeper than its peers, went viral. However, it does call for some introspection and interrogation to understand the data from different vendors that often is a bedrock for any story. 

Past events gave us enough incentive to look into how vendors gather and glean data on short-term rentals. Where there is transparency, there can be a degree of trust.

A county in California is conducting a comprehensive study to evaluate the impact of how short-term rentals affects housing availability in the county. 

What do you do when you’re a short-term rental operator during peak travel season in a busy market with regulatory restrictions? Try a pop-up property.