New York City edges ahead of Broward County on higher occupancy (60% vs 36%), stronger RevPAR (£47 vs £23).
Head-to-head metrics
| Broward County | New York City | |
|---|---|---|
| Median occupancy | 36% | 60% |
| Median daily rate | £102 | £117 |
| Median RevPAR | £23 | £47 |
| Active listings | 11,860 | 10,918 |
| YoY occupancy | +16.8 pts | — |
| YoY daily rate | -0.8% | — |
| Regulation risk | — | — |
| Annual night cap | None | None |
| License required | No | No |
Full analysis: Broward County vs New York City
On the money side of this comparison — what a listing actually earns against the nights it has available — New York City finishes decisively ahead of Broward County. Revenue per available night — rate and occupancy combined, the figure that actually reaches an owner — is 100% higher in New York City: £47 against £23. New York City sells 24 more points of its calendar — 60% median occupancy against 36% in Broward County. That is not a rounding difference, and it compounds over a hold period.
New York City takes both halves of the yield equation, which is less common than it sounds. It charges more per night — £117 against £102 — and still fills more of the year, 60% 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 £47 against £23.
That verdict needs a caveat, because Broward County is not simply the weaker market of the two. Broward County's calendar is the flatter of the two — 13.2 points between its best and worst month against 19.7 in New York City — which makes debt service easier to underwrite. Broward County sits at the cheaper end at £102 a night against £117, which lowers the bar for filling shoulder-season dates and usually tracks a lower purchase price too. If your model leans on that dimension, the ordering above can reasonably flip.
Neither Broward County nor New York City 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. Broward County peaks in September at 40.4% and bottoms in November at 27.2%; New York City runs from 67% in November down to 47.3% in January. Broward County is the steadier of the two at 13.2 points peak-to-trough against 19.7 — easier to underwrite against a mortgage — while New York City 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. Broward County suits buyers who want a conventional, lightly regulated entry. New York City 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 7,350 active Broward County listings and 3,530 in New York City.
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