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Vacasa Acquires Meyer Vacation Rentals, Doubles Footprint on Alabama Gulf Coast

Amy Hinote -
Vacasa has purchased Meyer Vacation Rentals and Meyer Services from SH Enterprises, doubling its short-term rental footprint along the Alabama Gulf Coast. Starr Textiles...
Business

What Investors Don’t Understand about the Short-Term Rental Industry

Amy Hinote -
Outside investment has been pouring into the short-term rental industry for the last seven years with increasing intensity, but on the heels of Airbnb’s...
Business

Vacasa Buys Turnkey—Finally

Amy Hinote -
Vacasa, the largest vacation rental management platform in North America, announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire TurnKey Vacation Rentals, a leading...
Marketing

Opinion: Beverly Serral—I Went to Skift’s Short-Term Rental Summit and Here’s What Happened

Beverly Serral -
By Beverly Serral, cofounder and CEO of BESTNEST Attendee 1: I hope I hear a lot about master leases. Attendee 2: I hope I hear a...
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Riding the Next Wave of Vacation Rental Consolidation

Jeremiah Gall -
As the industry hits its third wave of maturity, there’s a renewed focus on consolidation. Vacasa continues acquiring vacation rental managers at a rapid...
News

Google Adds Vacation Rentals to Hotel Search

Amy Hinote -
Google has officially jumped into the vacation rental industry, leading to both excitement and trepidation among rental providers. To be quite candid, much is unknown....
News

Who Are We? The Consequences of the Expanded Scope of the “Private Accommodations” Industry

Amy Hinote -
The Scope of the Vacation Rental Industry has Broadened, Forever Changing the Playing Field for Property Managers If it seems like the vacation rental industry...
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OTAs

Wyndham, TurnKey, VTrips, Vacasa Discuss HomeAway, Google, and What OTAs Can Do Better

Amy Hinote -
We had the chance host a panel of executives at Phocuswright's conference in Los Angeles, with the largest vacation rental companies in the US...
News

The Theory of Limited Edition: Are your homes commodities or limited edition offerings? 

Matt Landau -
I would like to share what I feel is the most radical concept in the vacation rental industry today—the theory of limited edition—which argues that, contrary to large...
OTAs

Airbnb’s acquisition of a property management company leads to concerns among property managers and hosts about Airbnb’s intentions

Amy Hinote -
This week, Airbnb announced its acquisition of Luckey Homes, a property management company based in France. The news comes on the heels of Airbnb's announcement...
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Opinion: Why The Vacation Rental Industry Needs Ratings 

Alex Nigg -
Consistency Drives Convergence In a recent USA Today article on why Airbnb and similar sharing economy businesses are dwindling in popularity, this quote caught my eye: “Travelers say they’re tired of the unknown.”   Why is...
Education

Phocuswright Conference to Address Alternative Accommodations

Amy Hinote -
Alternative accommodations, short-term rentals, vacation rentals—however you label this fast-growing lodging sector—there's no denying its impact on travel. The Phocuswright Conference, to be held...
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TurnKey Adds InvitedHome Co-founders to Management Team

Amy Hinote -
InvitedHome co-founders, Michael Joseph and Tom Feldhusen, left the company to join the TurnKey Vacation Rentals team. According to TJ Clark, CEO at Austin-based TurnKey, the...
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Vacation Rental Listing Site Launches Crowdfunding Campaign Ahead of ICO

Alexa Nota -
This week vacation rental listing site Vacayrx launched a crowdfunding campaign and plans to use the funds to promote an initial coin offering (ICO) later this...
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Service

TurnKey Raises $31 Million: Founder John Banczak Discusses Funding and Future Plans

Amy Hinote -
Last month, TurnKey Vacation Rentals announced it had secured $31 million in Series D funding led by current investor Adams Street Partners, with participation...
Education

VRM Intel Magazine Spring 2018 is here!

Amy Hinote -
Welcome to the spring issue of VRM Intel Magazine. The pace at which business conditions are changing in the vacation rental industry is staggering. As you may...
Technology

The Tech-Enabled Vacation Rental Company Has Arrived, But What Does It Mean?

Amy Hinote -
Over the last several months, fast-growing vacation rental companies have begun to describe themselves as “technology-enabled” or “tech-enabled” in the media and in their communications. However, in a sector...
Education

Over $530 Million Invested in Vacation Rental Startups Since 2011

VRM Intel Staff -
Over $530 million in disclosed angel and institutional funding has been raised by startups in the vacation rental industry since 2011, with 88% of...

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