Listings Sites Survey Results – Where and why owners/agents do not complete listings.

Incomplete Listings

684 holiday/vacation rental home owners and managers from 47 countries took part in our survey (Listings Sites – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly)

Question 5: 

Have you ever started a listing and not completed the process? If so, please tell us why and which site(s).

Top 10 sites for incomplete listings

(Website Name: Responses – Most common reasons given by respondents)

1. Airbnb: 21 – cancellation policies and host payment terms.
2. HomeAway: 12 – identification process and cost.
3. OnlyApartments: 11 – difficult admin and rate set up.
4. Booking.com: 10 – comments on forums and taking payment without credit cards.
5. HouseTrip: 8 – time consuming and photo posting requirements.
6. Wimdu: 7 – time consuming.
7. Atraveo: 3 – cancellation policy.
8. Casamundo: 3 – cancellation policy.
9. StopSleepGo: 2 – terms and conditions.
9. SunnyRentals: 2 – cost.

10 leading reasons for not completing a listing

1. Time Consuming.
2. Inflexible property cancellation policies.
3. No help to integrate multiple properties.
4. No integration with ICal availability calendar.
5. Not a free listing as advertised.
6. Complicated systems.
7. Promotional code not valid.
8. Speed of activation.
9. Identification process.
10. No link to personal website.

OTHER RESULTS FROM THIS SURVEY: 

N.B. These results represent the answers and comments of the 684 survey respondents and in no way reflect the views of NeedMoreRentals.
 


 
Further Information

Due to the large response to this survey and extent of individual comment and opinion there was simply too much information to be included here. We have therefore summarised the most remarkable findings of this study.

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We will not share any direct comments or contact details of survey respondents however we can provide more in-depth detail about results relating to a specific website, country or owner/manager demographic.