How do I filter and map listings in BNBCalc Markets?

Which listings you'll see

Open a market and click the Listings tab. The map and the cards beside it show the market's active listings: listings on Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com that were open for booking at least 127 nights of the past year and booked on at least 30% of those nights. Private and shared rooms, and homes that are only rented now and then, are left out, so the map reflects listings that run as real businesses.

Getting around the Listings tab

At the top of the panel you'll find:

• "N listings in view", next to the Filters button, which tells you how many listings the map is showing right now.
• Annual rev, Occupancy and Nightly rate for the listings in view, each compared with the Market avg. Annual rev averages the listings' potential revenue, and the market average covers all of the market's active listings, so neither matches the Annual Rev card on Marketwide Stats, even when the whole market is in view.
• Sort, which orders the cards by Revenue (each listing's potential revenue) or by Nightly rate, from high to low or low to high.

Zoom into a neighborhood and the stats and cards follow the map, which makes it a quick way to compare one part of a market with another.

Coloring the map with the heatmap

Click Filters to open the filters panel beside the map, and its first section, Heatmap, colors the listings by one measure, with a legend that shows what each shade means. You can choose Revenue (the default), Nightly rate or Performance, plus Gross yield and Est value in US markets, or switch it Off. It's the quickest way to spot which streets or neighborhoods earn the most before you start narrowing the list.

Filtering listings

The rest of the panel narrows the listings. Each section shows its current value, with an × to clear it, and Clear at the top resets everything:

Keep in mind that filters only change the map and the Listings tab. Marketwide Stats always describes the whole market, whatever you've filtered.

Reading a listing

Each card shows the listing's photos, size, Potential Rev and average daily rate, with a few controls:

• the platform logo opens the live listing on Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com;

• Stats, or clicking the card, opens the listing's details;

• the pin button shows where the listing is on the map;

• + Add saves it to a comp set.

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The details panel groups the numbers into three parts:

• Revenue stats: the annual revenue potential, the cleaning fee, the estimated home value and gross yield in the US (worked out from actual revenue, not the potential above it), and a Performance rating;
• Past 12 months: what the listing earned, how many nights it was open, its occupancy of those nights, its average stay and its average daily rate;
• Operation stats: its rating and how long it's been listed.

Click the host's name to open their operator profile, and Back to return to the list. Make sure to compare potential and actual revenue before you use a listing as a benchmark, since a home that's blocked off for much of the year can show a potential far above what it earned.

Analyzing a listing you like

There's no button that sends a listing to the Calculator. To check a home you're thinking of buying, type its address into the search box at the top of the page and run an analysis from there.

Without the Markets plan

You can browse the map, use the heatmap and set filters without a plan, but you'll see a sample of the market's listings, revenue and occupancy are masked on most of them, and opening a listing's details or platform link brings up an upgrade window. Broken Bow, OK has every listing unlocked, so it's a good place to try the filters first.