The State of the Global Vacation Rental Market 2017
Skift Take
Airbnb popularized a new type of rental product - i.e. the primary-residence urban rental, but now professionally managed properties are coming online with fury. Looking forward ten years, the landscape will likely look quite different. Consolidation is in the air; vacation rentals have gone mainstream with the consumer but inventory remains fragmented. Property managers, marketplaces, SaaS platforms and a host of other add-on services are evolving their strategies to capture greater scale and efficiencies.
Report Overview
Airbnb popularized a new type of rental product - i.e. the primary-residence urban rental, but now professionally managed properties are coming online with fury. Looking forward ten years, the landscape will likely look quite different. Consolidation is in the air; vacation rentals have gone mainstream with the consumer but inventory remains fragmented. Property managers, marketplaces, SaaS platforms and a host of other add-on services are evolving their strategies to capture greater scale and efficiencies.
Featured Quote
Consolidation among the property management groups has created demand for more sophisticated technologies that help manage increasingly larger and geographically dispersed portfolios of properties. That includes core back-of-house functions such as availability, revenue and channel management, as well as front-of-house services such as maintenance and concierge services.What You'll Learn From This Report
- State of fragmentation and consolidation in the vacation rental industry
- Supply and demand-side market sizing of U.S. and European markets
- Overview and assessment of acquisitions and venture capital funding rounds
- Overview and assessment of the vacation rental technology ecosystem
- Inventory and assessment of new players entering the space
- Insights into the major vacation rental marketplaces including Airbnb
