Online Rental Listings In-Depth

Summary

Airbnb may capture most of the media attention around home rentals for travel, but it is by no means the only store in the private accommodation marketplace. HomeAway and Booking.com have a stronger foothold in vacation destinations, while Airbnb dominates urban markets. Apartments, condos and homes represent the vast majority of rental listings, however the variations in mix – among other characteristics – across the three companies reveal important differences in their businesses.  

Phocuswright's Online Rental Listings presents an analysis of nearly 237,927 online rental listings in the five largest urban and vacation rental markets for private accommodation in the U.S. Phocuswright partnered with Transparent, a leading analytics firm for private accommodation, to gather listings data from three leading online rental marketplaces: Airbnb, HomeAway and Booking.com.  

Topics include:

• The size of the largest urban and vacation rental markets
• An assessment of the state of urban and vacation rental markets
• Key trends across the leading online rental marketplaces
• Mix variation across businesses, including inventory type, pricing, multi-unit and single-listing hosts
• How traveler reviews play a role in private accommodation  

Purchase Phocuswright's Online Rental Listings for the data and analysis of paramount importance to any business operating in the private accommodations space.