Rental Scale-Up by PriceLabs

Airbnb’s new 15.5% fee excludes VAT. If you are registered for VAT, you can recover this tax. However, most small European hosts are unregistered, meaning they pay VAT out of pocket, pushing their true fee to between 18.4% and 19.1%. To maintain your previous payout, you must raise your prices by about 18.2% to 19%. Registering for VAT just to reclaim this fee usually costs you ...

France recently surpassed 1 million active short-term rentals. To navigate strict city regulations, Airbnb is pivoting its marketing away from Paris toward rural heritage. The Airbnb Tour de France sponsorship and "Il était une fois en France" campaign leverage the 90th anniversary of paid vacations to win over rural mayors and drive local demand. Bonus: The catchy song in the n...

Airbnb has given the Porto City Council a dedicated digital portal to monitor short-term rental activity and request listing removals. In the US, an Aspen Journalism analysis shows licensed short-term rental supply in Pitkin County has fallen 29% over three years (and 62% from pre-regulation levels), driven by strict caps and non-transferability rules; across the city of Aspen a...

Certainty filled vacation rentals at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Suspense didn't. Group-stage occupancy across the tournament's 16 host cities finished 3.4 points behind the same dates last year. Knockout occupancy finished 7.9 points behind, more than twice the gap: fans who'd need an international flight and a visa bill worth thousands couldn't turn a trip around on a few days' n...

Ten days before the Commonwealth Games open, Glasgow's short-term rentals are surging: supply up 15%, occupancy up 9 points, and nightly rates up 73%. The FIFA World Cup raised prices by a similar amount in its US host cities this summer, but occupancy fell. Glasgow's edge: no athletes' village squeezing hotel supply, a historically UK-heavy crowd, and a compact, low-risk event ...