Many Airbnb ‘rentrepreneurs’ are taking advantage of the sharing economy and making money in ways unimaginable a few years ago. Since August of 2008, when Airbnb launched, people have taken advantage of the company’s platform to offer up everything from a space to crash on a couch, to full-blown castles, for a short-term rental fee. As consumers become more comfortable with the sharing economy, the number of available short-term rental properties has taken off; as has the number of people wh... More

AirDNA is excited to announce the launch of MarketMinder, a breakthrough competitive intelligence tool built to empower both beginners and seasoned Airbnb entrepreneurs worldwide with the data to make smarter decisions. As one of the industry’s most trusted resources in short-term rental data, AirDNA has helped thousands of Airbnb hosts and entrepreneurs slice and dice the data on Airbnb occupancy, revenue and return-on-investment across the globe. Alongside, we've conducted hundreds of su... More

Executive Summary Berlin, Barcelona, San Francisco and Santa Monica have imposed tough regulations on Airbnb hosts and the platform, in an attempt to curb the short-term rental market. By utilizing differences-in-differences and log regression methodologies, this report analyzes to what extent this Airbnb regulation has been effective. It finds that punitive Airbnb regulation, in particular, steep fines for hosts, has the most impact on Airbnb. In Berlin and Santa Monica, listings fell by 49% a... More