🌍⚽ How World Cup 2026 is Shaping the Short Term Rental Market
Summary
This PriceLabs video discusses how the 2026 FIFA World Cup is influencing short-term rental markets across the USA, Canada, and Mexico. It emphasizes early booking data, event compression, and rate psychology for revenue managers overseeing large STR portfolios, and identifies cities like Miami, Atlanta, Vancouver, and Guadalajara as areas where hosts may find opportunities but potentially miss out.
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