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Booking.com to headline the Short Stay Summit
Reading Time: 2 minutesSpain: Quartz Smart Events has announced Booking.com as the headline partner for the newly launched Short Stay Summit which is opening on Friday 8 November 2019 in Barcelona. The Short Stay Summit is the latest addition to the growing Short Stay Show event portfolio which launched in London earlier this year. The Short Stay Show […]
HiGuests announces funding and expansion progress in Barcelona
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDubai: Property management startup HiGuests has announced it has secured $1.1 million in its latest investment round, with participation by Spanish real estate firm Forcadell. The company, which was founded in 2016 by Spanish entrepreneurs Miquel Manzanas and Oriol Plana, operates and manages properties on behalf of their owners on a short-term rental basis. Through […]
Short Stay Summit to be launched in Barcelona
Reading Time: 2 minutesBarcelona: Following on from the successful launch of the Short Stay Show in March 2019, the organising team behind the show has announced the launch of the Short Stay Summit in Barcelona. The event will take place on Friday 8 November 2019 at the Barcelona Hesperia Tower Hotel. It is being delivered in partnership with […]
Rental controls set to be introduced in Barcelona
Reading Time: 2 minutesSpain: Officials in Barcelona are seeking to introduce Spain’s most stringent rental controls after housing costs in the city rose by more than 50 per cent over the last five years. According to a decree published last week, landlords will have to negotiate leases related to benchmark prices set for each property in desirable neighbourhoods […]
KigoWorld 2019 review and insights
Reading Time: 2 minutesSpain: The latest annual edition of the property management conference KigoWorld took place in Barcelona this week. The event brought together industry professionals from all around the world for a two-day conference, which coincided with Vacation Rental Tech Week in the same city. With sessions led by a number of notable keynote speakers from the […]
Rentals United’s Vanessa de Souza Lage on Vacation Rental Tech Week
Reading Time: 3 minutesBarcelona: ShortTermRentalz spoke to Rentals United’s Vanessa de Souza Lage about the inaugural Vacation Rental Tech Week which will take place next week in Barcelona. What is the purpose of the first Vacation Rental Tech Week? What do you hope vacation rental professionals will get out of it? Vacation Rental Tech Week connects property managers […]
Vacation Rental Tech Week to launch in Barcelona
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBarcelona: The first ever Vacation Rental Tech Week is set to take place in Barcelona next week,from 1-5 April. The week will be an opportunity to showcase meet-ups and events for representatives from right across the professional vacation rental industry. The objective of Vacation Rental Tech Week is to connect property managers and owners with […]
Airbnb toasts “best quarter ever” with revenue exceeding one billion dollars
Reading Time: 2 minutesSan Francisco: Airbnb has said it has had its “best quarter ever” with its revenue taken in during the past three months exceeding a billion dollars. Airbnb said in a memo: “The third quarter of 2018 was the strongest quarter in Airbnb history, and the first quarter in which Airbnb recognized substantially more than $1 […]
Burrows named as CEO of rental tech solution provider Rentals United
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWorldwide: Rentals United, the cloud-based channel manager and technology solution for the short-term rental industry, has announced James Burrows as its new chief executive officer. Burrows previously held the position of chief operating officer of Rentals United as well as being one of the company’s original co-founders when it was established in 2015. Rentals United […]
Barcelona Airbnb host reportedly manages short-term rentals ‘worth £33,000 a day’
Reading Time: 2 minutesBarcelona: A data organisation has found an Airbnb host in Barcelona manages 204 apartments worth €37,721 (£33,369) a day in rental income during the high season. The report by DataHippo, which was commissioned to analyse the tourist apartment industry in Barcelona, revealed the ten biggest hosts in the Spanish city manage 996 apartments between them, […]