Host-blocked nights

Where does BNBCalc show blocked nights?

Open a listing's details in BNBCalc Markets and look under Past 12 months:

• Nights available is how many nights the listing was open to book over the past 12 months.
• The line under it, "Host blocked N days (P%) of the year", is 365 minus those nights.
• Estimated nights booked is nights available × occupancy of available nights.

Say a listing was open 250 nights and booked 72% of them. The host blocked 115 days, or 32% of the year, and the listing was booked about 180 nights. Every listing on a market's map was open at least 127 nights, so none of them shows more than 238 blocked days.

Why does BNBCalc leave blocked nights out of occupancy?

Because a blocked night was never for sale. BNBCalc's occupancy rate divides nights booked by the nights a listing was open, so an owner who uses the home every August isn't marked down for it. That 250-night listing shows 72% occupancy, even though it was booked on only about half the nights of the year.

The same idea is behind revenue potential, which scales a part-time listing's revenue up to what it would earn if it were open all year. Together they let you compare a part-time home with a full-time one on how well each sells the nights it offers.

How can I tell how many listings in a market are part-time?

On a market's Marketwide Stats tab, Listings by availability groups listings by how many nights a year they're open: 91 to 180, 181 to 270, and 271 to 365. Since every listing in that chart was open at least 127 nights, the first group runs from 127 to 180 in practice. A big share in that first group means a lot of the market is part-time, which matters when you're judging how many homes you'd compete with on any given night.