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12% -- commission savings per booking for vacation rental hosts (2025)
Commission-free bookings typically save vacation rental hosts 12-20% per reservation.
- The source reports this figure as a range of 12-20%
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12%
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Data Vintage
2025
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B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Futurestay
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Tier B
https://www.futurestay.com/glossary ↗
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Vacation Rental Glossary - Futurestay
Glossary
Short Term Vacation Rental Glossary.
Every industry term you need to know as a vacation rental host — from ADR to yield management.
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Arbitrage
A business model where an operator rents properties on long-term leases, then re-rents them as short-term rentals for profit. The arbitrageur profi…
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Futurestay
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Methodology
Range 12-20%; midpoint 16% used
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vacation rental hosts: 12% commission savings per booking. Source: Futurestay (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/direct-booking-savings-12-20pct
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