Industry News
Stay informed on the latest developments in the vacation rental and short-term rental industry. This category provides vacation rental managers and short-term rental managers with news on industry growth, trends, events, and insights into the future of short-term rental property management. From major updates across European markets to professional insights into industry shifts, explore the news shaping the landscape of vacation rentals.
Futurestay, the vacation rental software platform for rentalpreneurs, raises $11M
Vacation rental software provider Futurestay, which focuses on powering the rental business of entrepreneurs with 1 to 10 properties, has ...
Asking the Hard Questions When Picking a Tech Solution for Your Property Management Business
If you have spent any amount of time in the business of vacation rental management, you would already have discovered ...
AirDNA and Transparent acquired: Hotels, Real Estate, OTAs and STR investors hungry for Vacation Rental Data
Vacation rental data is hot, not just for professionals from the short-term rental industry. Over the last two weeks, two ...
Vacasa (VCSA) 2021 results: High costs of supply growth and tech investment, but positive EBITDA expected in 2023
The story of Vacasa, Inc. (VCSA) is one of spending a lot of money on building a tech platform and ...
Evolve Vacation Rental Network raises $100 million, on the heels of Vacasa
Evolve Vacation Rental Network recently raised $100 million of capital with Durable Capital Partners LP leading the charge. This comes ...
Vrbo: Stock booster for Expedia Group
Like Airbnb, Expedia Group has recorded its best Q4 ever (from October to November 2021). While the Vrbo stock does ...
How Airbnb Payments, Inc. became a money transfer platform to help Ukrainian hosts
In this article, we look at why companies like Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, and Hopper need to build robust and flexible ...
Vacation rental company funding trends 2021 & 2022
In which type of property management companies and vacation rental tech startups did the money flow in 2021 and early ...
Green VR Events: Making Vacation Rental Industry Events Greener
Green VR Events has recently released a 25-step playbook to try and implore vacation rental events to do their part ...
The short-term rental industry joins forces on how to welcome Ukrainian refugees (or just donate)
At Rental Scale-Up, our previous article on Airbnb’s Help Ukraine initiative generated a lot of contacts from hosts as well ...
Airbnb Help Ukraine initiative: How to list your place and host a refugee
In the article, we show you how to list your place on Airbnb.org to welcome Ukrainian refugees. The military and ...
Wave of money over the short-term rental industry. Exclusive report shows investment is not just into big players.
Rental Scale-Up has just released an exclusive report on investment trends in the short-term rental industry. They looked at 110 ...
Inside Hopper Homes: Susan Ho on launching an MVP with 2 million listings and innovating where Airbnb and Booking.com are not
In just 4 months, Hopper went from 0 to 2 million vacation rental listings available on its travel app. How ...
AvantStay and Saluda Grade create a $500 million short-term rental fund
What can $500 million buy? Apparently, big vacation rentals where to party without the owner or the neighbors complaining. Imagine ...
Airbnb Q4 2021 financial results: Great earnings, but question about supply growth linger
Here are our favorite data and quotes from Airbnb’s Q4 2021 financial results released this week. You can also check ...
2022 Airbnb strategy
Brian Chesky has shared Airbnb’s 2022 strategy. Here are three pillars on which Airbnb’s new product features, marketing initiatives, new ...
Is Live Anywhere the new normal for Airbnb?
Since 2007, Airbnb’s core mission has been to help anyone belong anywhere. For the hosts that make Airbnb, Airbnb, this ...
Airbnb’s Terms of Service Update Raises Security Deposit Questions
Airbnb has updated its Terms of Service. Everyone will have to accept them starting from April 22, 2022. We looked ...
Best vacation rental markets 2022: Hawaii, Alaska, and Tennessee ahead of Florida
AirDNA has just released its list of the best places to invest in a U.S. vacation rental in 2022, ranging ...
How to pick and enter a new vacation rental market (for property managers)
If you’re a vacation rental manager, it’s important to know how to pick the right market to enter. In this ...
