How to beat your local market.
September and October are brutal in Miami. Occupancy, revenue, and average daily rates all bottom out. Yet guests are still booking. Even in September 2025, two in 5 Miami listings got booked. All you have to do is make sure yours is one of them. While you can mitigate a slow patch by optimizing your…
No more subdomain for your listing pages!
Hostaway announces that listings are now live on our main direct booking URL, moving them from the subdomain to where they need to be. How to make the change…
There Is No More Page 2
Travelers now use AI instead of "Page 2" to find STRs and receive a curated handful of direct recommendations. Learn how hosts can adapt using multi-channel visibility, local content, and AEO.
How VRBO’s New "Top 1%" Badge Validated Our Multi-Channel Strategy (And Added 60% to Our ADR)
VRBO launches top 1% Loved by Guests, and we'll show you how VRBO makes us 60% more money than Airbnb does
Lessons from a FIFA World Cup host
Discover how data-driven pricing and channel diversification boosted our World Cup short-term rental revenue by 51%—despite an Airbnb booking slump.
Airbnb Announces Mandatory 15.5% Fee!
Airbnb is forcing all hosts onto a mandatory 15.5% Single Service Fee. Don't panic; your payouts don't have to drop. Here is the dead-simple fix to protect your payouts.