The nightly rate of your vacation rental property will determine how much income you will produce. It is very important and we will give you our tips on how to figure out what nightly rate to charge!
How to Figure out your Nightly Rate for your Airbnb?
Welcome to the video. The nightly rate of your vacation rental property will determine how much income you will produce. It is very important and can be very tricky at times to figure out and master! In this video we are giving our tips and tricks on how to figure out the perfect price you should be charging as your nightly rate on your Airbnb property. YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/-_KKXoc66rQ
How to Figure out your Nightly Rate for your Airbnb?
1. Do your RESEARCH
a. AirDna
i. FREE tools
ii. Tells you average nightly rate, occupancy and expected revenue for your
area.
b. Find your comps
i. Use Airdna to find similar sized housing in your area, click on the link to
use as comps
ii. Search airbnb for other properties in and around your area
iii. Based on amount of reviews and calendar you can usually tell what their
occupancy rate it
2. Constantly Adjust Pricing
a. Less at First
i. If it’s a brand new property you want to charge less so you can get some
bookings and get some reviews
b. Slow Season = Less
i. Charge less during the slow season and more during the high season
ii. Also less on weekdays and more on weekends
iii. Any big events? Make sure to mark those prices up way in advance to
capitalize
3. Use a Pricing Software
a. Pricing Software can be a great ROI
i. Pricing softwares are constantly adjusting pricing on an almost daily
basis. They use data to figure out availability, seasonality, and other
factors to price your property for you.
ii. Cost a little money but could be a great return to maximize those rental
rates!
b. MUST put in base and min prices
i. Most softwares come with a free base price help software to help you
figure out what your base price should be. Usually takes a few days to
analyze property but after words is a great tool.
ii. Change your base and min pricing during slow/high seasons
4. DON’T use the Airbnb recommended pricing
a. This price is usually very low because they can’t analyze the quality of your listing
only the size and location.
b. Stay away from this!
5. Figure out your Goals
a. Do you want high occupancy?
i. We love high occupancy because it means more reviews, which means
better seo and your property will be top of the list!
ii. More turnovers means more cleaning fees as well which is nice if you
clean and profit from them yourselves.
b. Do you want less turnovers?
i. Maybe you want less turnovers and would rather have only the best
pricing and less occupancy? In that case you’d price higher.
6. Adjust cleaning fee
a. Guests don’t originally see the cleaning fee breakdown. They only see the
average nightly rate at first which includes cleaning fee. If your cleaning fee is too
high then it boosts the average nightly rate exorbitantly.
b. We have cleaners that work for us and we pay them an hourly rate. That way we
can lower cleaning fee, increasing occupancy and we aren’t losing money on the
cleaning fees because we pay our cleaners a specific amount each week.
7. Be Flexible!
a. Play around with your pricing! We still do! If you aren’t getting booked enough
lower price, if you’re getting booked to much or aren’t happy with the quality of
the guest then raise it! Pricing will be ever evolving!
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