Austin edges ahead of Broward County on higher occupancy (23% vs 18.1%), stronger RevPAR (£43 vs £35).
Head-to-head metrics
| Austin | Broward County | |
|---|---|---|
| Median occupancy | 23% | 18.1% |
| Median daily rate | £181 | £180 |
| Median RevPAR | £43 | £35 |
| Active listings | 8,061 | 12,088 |
| YoY occupancy | -1.7 pts | -1.1 pts |
| YoY daily rate | +81.7% | +76.4% |
| Regulation risk | — | — |
| Annual night cap | None | None |
| License required | No | No |
Full analysis: Austin vs Broward County
On the money side of this comparison — what a listing actually earns against the nights it has available — Austin finishes clearly ahead of Broward County. Austin turns its rate and occupancy into £43 per available night against £35 in Broward County, a 23.9% edge on the only yield figure that nets the empty nights out. Austin's listings run at 23% occupancy against 18.1% in Broward County, worth 4.9 extra points of booked calendar every year. Those gaps are wide enough to survive a normal year's variance.
Austin takes both halves of the yield equation, which is less common than it sounds. It charges more per night — £181 against £180 — and still fills more of the year, 23% against 18.1%. A market that leads on price and utilisation at once is normally one where demand has outrun supply, rather than one where hosts are discounting to keep the calendar busy. RevPAR reflects the double advantage at £43 against £35.
That verdict needs a caveat, because Broward County is not simply the weaker market of the two. Broward County is the deeper market at 12,088 active listings against 8,061, which usually means better comparables going in and a wider buyer pool coming out. Broward County's calendar is the flatter of the two — 12.4 points between its best and worst month against 21.6 in Austin — which makes debt service easier to underwrite. If your model leans on that dimension, the ordering above can reasonably flip.
Neither Austin nor Broward County currently has a verified short-term rental regulation record in our register, so the comparison above is a yield comparison only. Regulation is the single largest source of downside in this asset class — an unverified market is an unpriced risk, not an absent one.
The two calendars also behave differently. Austin peaks in October at 50.1% and bottoms in February at 28.5%; Broward County runs from 38.5% in February down to 26.1% in May. Broward County is the steadier of the two at 12.4 points peak-to-trough against 21.6 — easier to underwrite against a mortgage — while Austin concentrates its return into a shorter window and rewards operators who price the peak aggressively instead of holding a flat rate all year.
Who each suits, then. Austin suits buyers who want a conventional, lightly regulated entry. It is the contrarian side: buying it means buying a market that has cooled. Broward County answers to the same regulatory profile, so the split between them is operational rather than legal. Every figure above comes from the same Inside Airbnb snapshot pipeline on both sides, dated 2026-09, filtered to listings with at least one booking in the last twelve months. Occupancy medians are drawn from 8,061 active Austin listings and 12,088 in Broward County.
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