By Lauren Glendenning
Websites like VRBO.com and Airbnb.com are giving discerning travelers an alternative to resort lodging in mountain destinations, but they’re also creating some...
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802 is the number of vacation rental management companies who have purchased LiveRez’s vacation rental management software platform as of April 9, 2014. Vacation...
Portland, OR based property management company Vacasa Rentals recently purchased Utah Vacation Homes. Founded in 2009, fast-growing Vacasa manages over 700 vacation homes in the western U.S.,...
Updated: April 11, 2014
HomeAway CEO Brian Sharples has another significant chunk of stock for at least the fourth time in the past five weeks. Sharples acquired...
Last year, short-term rentals in Myrtle Beach generated an economic output of $200.7 million and supported 2,587 jobs.
Residents and the local tourism industry of...
Last year, short-term rentals in Coachella Valley generated $272 million in overall economic activity and supported 2,539 jobs.
COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. – March 27 –...
Facing opposition from property rights advocates and the vacation rental industry, state lawmakers in both the House and Senate took a step back from...
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Officials in Asheville have three months to come up with rules and regulations regarding short-term vacation rentals after property owners...
On March 12, 2014, an interesting article released by Fortune titled Quietly Growing Up in Airbnb's Shadow, provides a unique perspective on the similarities...
In the last month, the vacation rental industry has seen several acquisitions of technology companies:
RealPage acquired Bookt/Instamanager
VacationRoost acquired LeisureLink
HomeAway acquired Glad to Have You
Each...
This article is part of the Under the Hood Series in which we interviewed executives from on-the-grow vacation rental management companies to discuss everything...
VacationRoost Group Inc. ("VR") today announced a substantial expansion of their Vacation Home Reservation Network with the acquisition of LeisureLink Inc. (www.Leisurelink.com). The combined...
This is part 5 in the Under the Hood Series in which we interviewed executives from seven on-the-grow vacation rental management companies to discuss...
HomeAway, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWAY), the world's leading online marketplace for vacation rentals, today announced that, through an all cash transaction, it has acquired Glad...
Maxxton, the largest provider of Hospitality Enterprise Resource Planning solutions for the vacation rental industry, supports Booking.com’s length of stay pricing tables to increase...
This week, Bookt LLC, the company behind InstaManager®, was acquired by RealPage Inc. (NASDAQ:RP), a leading property management systems and services company. With this acquisition,...
In January, VRM Intel surveyed vacation rental mangers about their company's mobile app usage. 63% of the property managers surveyed had implemented a mobile...
NAVIS has made recent changes which are designed to both allow for rapid expansion and provide more specialized and personalized service to clients in...