How AirROI Counts Airbnb Management Companies

A home counts when it was live in at least 3 of the 12 months, live in at least 1 of the last 3, and had 3 or more booked or blocked nights in its live months. The window is 12 months to October 2026. A home that opened in the last two months, sat empty all year, or closed before the summer is not counted, and the company's profile says how many such homes it has and why.

Every page counts homes in its own place: a town page counts homes in the town, a region page counts homes in every town of the region, and a state or country page counts homes anywhere in it. A home counts once on each page. The "All markets" column gives a company's homes everywhere, so a company with 6 homes in one town and 44 across the region can be read on both pages.

This rule is the management pages' own. The market pages count active listings on their own rule, so a town's two figures can differ; neither is wrong, and each page says which rule it uses.

A home is credited to the company whose Airbnb account hosts it, or that is named as its co-host on the owner's account, because many companies run homes that way. A home counts for each company on it: with one company as host and another as co-host, it counts in both rows, so the rows of a table can add up to more than the homes in the place. The total for a place counts each home once.

A company that runs several Airbnb accounts under one name appears once, with the accounts joined. Accounts are joined by their public names and by the homes they share, and the join is checked against the company's own website or its co-host data before it is used. Accounts are joined once a month; a profile lists the accounts behind it and the month they were last joined.

Accounts are classified from their names, and the largest accounts in each town are checked by hand. Only businesses that manage homes for owners are ranked, under the name they trade as. Individual hosts who do not trade as a business are never ranked with them: each ranking lists its largest individual hosts by name in a table of their own, with no profile, and every individual host counts in the market figures. A host that runs 100 or more homes worldwide is treated as a company, whatever the name on the account. Some companies list on Airbnb under a first name. AirROI ranks them by the homes they run and shows the name on the account. Accounts with a generic name, such as "Property" or "Concierge", that cannot be tied to a company are not named at all. Hotels, resorts and booking platforms are counted in the totals but not ranked.

A region page covers a named area that owners search for as one place: 120 regions, such as the Smoky Mountains or Cape Cod, each made of the towns AirROI assigns to it. The towns are fixed when the page is published and listed on it, so the same homes are counted the same way every month; the list is rechecked only when pages are added.

A region sits under its state, beside the state's towns. A region that crosses a state line sits under the state with most of its homes, and the other state's page links to it too. A region page counts a company's homes across all of its towns, so a company can rank lower on a town page than on the region page: each page ranks by the homes in that place alone. Where a name is also used by towns outside the region, the page says so.

A company's rating is Airbnb's guest rating averaged across its listings, weighted by their reviews. It is shown from 4.7 over 100 or more reviews; the best-rated order needs 25 or more listings and 500 or more reviews. A rating under that is not shown, because a low figure on Airbnb data alone mostly reflects new or re-listed homes still building reviews.

"Ahead of similar homes" compares each of a company's year-round homes with the median owner-run home of the same bedroom count and room type in the same town, on revenue, then nightly rate, then booked nights, and reports the median of those comparisons, on 10 or more homes. Each row shows the strongest measure its homes are ahead on, named ("+16% revenue", "+19% nightly rate"); a row whose homes are ahead on none shows how many homes were compared, and no shortfall is ever printed. Rankings by results use revenue alone. Managers choose which homes they take on, so part of any lead reflects the homes themselves. Revenue is gross Airbnb booking revenue estimated from booked nights and rates, before any fee; stays sold on other sites are not counted, on either side.

Fees are the rates companies publish on their own websites, checked by hand twice a year and pooled across the companies checked. No company's fee is shown on its own, and AirROI does not estimate any company's fee.

Every ranking and profile is rebuilt once a month from the latest listing data; this edition is from November 2026, the next is due in December 2026. Each page says the day it was updated under its title. Accounts are linked once a month, and only when the link can be checked against the company's site or its co-host data; until then, the accounts stay apart, which is the safe side.

No company can pay to be listed or ranked, no figure is edited by a company, and there is no claim form. A profile's "Why this number" panel gives the homes tied to the company, the homes counted, and the homes not counted by reason, with the data window.