Articles tagged “real estate”

Short-Term Rentals

Airbnb Wants To Work With Cities to Enable Renters To Be Hosts

You can expect Airbnb to run campaigns to push for local laws that would allow renters to put their apartments on Airbnb.

Srividya Kalyanaraman | 1 week ago

Airbnb Wants To Work With Cities to Enable Renters To Be Hosts

Short-Term Rentals

Digital Nomad Startup Raises $325 Million For 150 Boutique Hotels

Traditional short-term rentals often don't work well for the digital nomad who also wants to socialize. Outsite is trying to fill that gap.

Justin Dawes | 5 months ago

Digital Nomad Startup Raises $325 Million For 150 Boutique Hotels

Short-Term Rentals

Preventing a New Vacation Rental Listing From Being a Dud — AirDNA’s New Tool For Home Buyers

AirDNA is providing a heap of reality to unwitting homebuyers who count on their new vacation rental to instantly covering their mortgage payments. The real numbers may tell a different story.

Dennis Schaal | 6 months ago

Preventing a New Vacation Rental Listing From Being a Dud — AirDNA’s New Tool For Home Buyers

Short-Term Rentals

Short-Term Rental Saturation Leads to a Correction – and Lots of Home Sales

Early investors in vacation rental markets are realizing three's a crowd.

Srividya Kalyanaraman | 9 months ago

Short-Term Rental Saturation Leads to a Correction – and Lots of Home Sales

Short-Term Rentals

Black Swan Buys and Tries to Revive Short-Term Rental Brand Lyric

The Lyric short-term rental brand is resurfacing as the capital environment sobers up, and the industry learns to be patient about scale and growth.

Srividya Kalyanaraman | 10 months ago

Black Swan Buys and Tries to Revive Short-Term Rental Brand Lyric

Tourism

New York City’s Post-Pandemic Tourism Recovery Masks Long-Term Challenges

Once labeled the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, New York City is now an anchor for global tourism again and tourism is an even more important part of the city's economic future.

Dawit Habtemariam | 1 year ago

New York City’s Post-Pandemic Tourism Recovery Masks Long-Term Challenges

News Blog

Airbnb Increases Efforts to Boost Short-Term Rentals in Multifamily Buildings

Building on initiatives that had mixed results in the past, Airbnb is debuting an Airbnb-Friendly Apartments program to enable long-term renters in multifamily buildings where landlords permit it to list their rooms or apartments on Airbnb. Sentral Wynwood in Miami participated in Airbnb's new Airbnb-Friendly Apartments Program. Source: Airbnb For both guests and hosts, one…

Dennis Schaal | 1 year ago

News Blog

UAE Developer Nakheel Secures $4.6 Billion Financing to Develop Dubai Islands 

Dubai-based property developer Nakheel announced it has secured $4.6 billion in strategic financing deal to drive what it calls, “the new phase of growth.” The amount includes refinancing of $3 billion, and additional funds of $1.6 billion. The developer of Palm Jumeirah said that the finance would be utilised to accelerate the development of its…

Peden Doma Bhutia | 1 year ago

Business Travel

Does Shift by Accor’s Wojo to Offices Mean Digital Nomadness Has Peaked?

The intense relationship with digital nomads could be cooling off, as hotels increasingly turn "hybrid" and map out a future that focuses on permanent bases for corporations.

Matthew Parsons | 2 years ago

Does Shift by Accor’s Wojo to Offices Mean Digital Nomadness Has Peaked?

Short-Term Rentals

Airbnb Expands Translation Tools

Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at Airbnb’s expanded language tools, politics and hotel bookings, and the market for selling hotels.

Rashaad Jorden | 2 years ago

Airbnb Expands Translation Tools