Boston edges ahead of Broward County on higher occupancy (56% vs 36%), stronger RevPAR (£38 vs £23).
Head-to-head metrics
| Boston | Broward County | |
|---|---|---|
| Median occupancy | 56% | 36% |
| Median daily rate | £112 | £102 |
| Median RevPAR | £38 | £23 |
| Active listings | 2,541 | 11,860 |
| YoY occupancy | — | +16.8 pts |
| YoY daily rate | — | -0.8% |
| Regulation risk | — | — |
| Annual night cap | None | None |
| License required | No | No |
Full analysis: Boston vs Broward County
On the money side of this comparison — what a listing actually earns against the nights it has available — Boston finishes decisively ahead of Broward County. Revenue per available night — rate and occupancy combined, the figure that actually reaches an owner — is 61.2% higher in Boston: £38 against £23. Boston sells 20 more points of its calendar — 56% median occupancy against 36% in Broward County. That is not a rounding difference, and it compounds over a hold period.
Boston takes both halves of the yield equation, which is less common than it sounds. It charges more per night — £112 against £102 — and still fills more of the year, 56% against 36%. 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 £38 against £23.
That verdict needs a caveat, because Broward County is not simply the weaker market of the two. Broward County is the deeper market at 11,860 active listings against 2,541, which usually means better comparables going in and a wider buyer pool coming out. Broward County's calendar is the flatter of the two — 13.2 points between its best and worst month against 21.3 in Boston — which makes debt service easier to underwrite. If your model leans on that dimension, the ordering above can reasonably flip.
Neither Boston 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. Boston peaks in November at 54.2% and bottoms in February at 32.9%; Broward County runs from 40.4% in September down to 27.2% in November. Broward County is the steadier of the two at 13.2 points peak-to-trough against 21.3 — easier to underwrite against a mortgage — while Boston 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. Boston suits buyers who want a conventional, lightly regulated entry. 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, filtered to listings with at least one booking in the last twelve months. Occupancy medians are drawn from 1,049 active Boston listings and 7,350 in Broward County.
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