Articles tagged “vacation rentals”

Wyndham Vacation Rentals, which picked up around 1,000 vacation rental units along the Grand Strand, has grand expansion plans and acquired other Gulf Shore properties and in the UK, as well.

These are early days, but when a major hotel provider such as Booking.com diversifies into vacation rentals, everyone should take notice.

The vacation rental switch will be used by professionally managed properties for wider distribution and this would give travelers more reliable options when staying in vacation homes.

The free tax ride may be over for vacation rental owners listing their properties on sites such as VRBO and HomeAway.

This is a very modest start for HomeAway, but it could turn into a very big business.

The pre-2008 real estate market is so far removed from reality now that the valuations appear as a strange dream. The only thing for an owner to do now is take a very long view and hope for a new bubble.

This Work Vacation Balance program for NextGreatPlace is a clever tack by the company to get some traction in the corporate world. And, with their own vacation planners, employees should be able to hook themselves with some nice vacations without the stress of doing all that travel planning on their own.

These picks, from a seashell-inspired beach home to a suspended tree house, are nestled in the crooks of nature, but offer many of the amenities found at a five-star hotel -- and the price tag too!

Accel Partners joins existing investors Balderton and Index to back what they see as a better alternative to Airbnb (and all of its clones) in the European market.

Vacation rental owners will get added muscle with the new ability to subscribe to one plan and list consistently across 15 of HomeAway's international sites. The normalizing of rate plans, though, will mean a financial hit for some VRBO advertisers.