Airbnb Resident Hosting programme
The Airbnb Resident Hosting programme unlocks hosting for residents living in flats, apartments and other multifamily buildings. Building owners, managers and homeowners’ associations (“building management”) can offer residents the ability to host on Airbnb according to their building rules and policies. Through this programme, your building management can:
- Establish their own building rules for hosting, tailored to work for their community
- Gain visibility into Airbnb hosting activity in the community
- Leverage tools on Airbnb to receive an agreed portion of the resident’s hosting earnings (“revenue share”)
The Resident Hosting programme also gives building management access to tools, including a customised dashboard to track any revenue share they earn, and provides insight into hosting activity for listings opted into the programme.
Today, this programme is primarily for buildings in the United States and the United Kingdom. To find out if your building is part of the programme, check with your building management or, for those in the United States, look for it on airbnb.com/airbnb-friendly. Know that there are buildings that allow hosting on Airbnb but aren’t part of this programme. If they’d like to consider partnering with Airbnb, they can learn more.
Information sharing
As part of the Resident Hosting programme, Airbnb will share the following information with your building management:
- Your Host name
- Address
- Apartment unit number
- Number of nights you’ve hosted in the past calendar year, including any periods before you enrolled in the programme, if applicable
- Payout amounts/earnings since you’ve enrolled in the programme
- Link to your listing, including your listing’s photos, list of amenities and description
- Bookings and Reservation info, including the reservation code, check-in and checkout dates, and number of guests
For additional information on what personal information Airbnb collects, how we use personal information and how personal information is shared, check out our Privacy Policy.
Revenue share
Your building management may require you to share a portion of your Airbnb earnings as a condition to your participation in the Resident Hosting programme (“revenue share”).
The revenue share percentage and the specific calculation of your earnings used to determine the revenue share varies by building. The calculation may be based on the nightly rate you set, which includes any management fees, resort fees or community fees that are rolled into the nightly rate through our professional hosting tools, if applicable. Find out more about Airbnb’s professional hosting tools. The calculation may also include lodging or hotel taxes, cleaning fees, extra guest fees, pet fees and other fees and amounts you add to your nightly rate, which guests must agree to during checkout.
You can contact your building management for information on the specific revenue share percentage and calculation details applicable to your building. This information will also be displayed during the enrolment process.
Your building management may change the revenue share percentage and/or method of calculation from time to time upon no less than thirty (30) days’ written notice. However, if such change reduces the revenue share applied to your earnings, that reduction may be effective on five (5) days’ written notice.
Co-Hosts
If you use Co-Host tools, there are some general limitations to sharing payouts with Co-Hosts on Airbnb, depending on your location and your Co-Host’s and/or where your listing is located. Learn more about Co-Host payouts. In addition to those general limitations, Hosts who have opted into the Resident Hosting Programme should know the following:
- United States: For Hosts in the US, note that revenue share for each booking is deducted prior to calculating any amounts shared with Co-Hosts. Co-Host payouts are also limited to being set up as a percentage calculation per booking (and not fixed amounts). Due to this limitation, if a listing has any Co-Host payouts set up as fixed amounts prior to the Host opting into the programme, those Co-Host payouts will be removed for all future payouts after the date the Host agrees to the Resident Hosting terms. . In addition, if the revenue share for a building changes, payouts that were previously set up may also be removed. A Host may set up new Co-Host payouts after opting in or the revenue share is changed, so long as the payout is set up as a percentage calculation per booking.
- United Kingdom and Canada: For Hosts in the UK and Canada, Co-Host payouts are not currently supported. If a UK or Canadian Host has already set up a Co-Host payout before joining the Resident Hosting programme, these Co-Host payouts will be removed for future payouts after the date on which the Host agrees to the Resident Hosting terms.
For more information, check out our Limitations for participants in Resident Hosting.
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