Where Have All the Short-Term Renters Gone? To the Desert

For the past year, short-term rental booking demand in U.S. deserts has been particularly hot, data from AirDNA show. Arizona’s Phoenix and Scottsdale area has seen a 41 percent year-over-year increase in booking demand as of December 2022. This Sonoran Desert location has also seen an uptick in rental supply, with 23,249 listings in December 2022, up 47 percent year-over-year. A similar trend has been playing out in other desert destinations such as California’s Coachella Valley, where the Sonoran eventually meets the Mojave Desert, and in Marfa, Texas, in the Chihuahuan Desert.

Wall Street Journal (02/14/23) Jessica Flint

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