STR Revenue Calculator
Model gross revenue, operating costs, cash flow, cash-on-cash return, and the year-one tax position.
Tools
Airbnb investment calculators and buyer tools
Use the cash-budget calculator before searching, the revenue model when you have a specific property, and the downside calculator before committing. These tools organize assumptions; seller records, written quotes and property-specific diligence determine whether those assumptions are usable.
Tools
Free calculators for modelling a purchase
Let us look at your numbers before you buy
Applications are reviewed individually. If short-term rentals are the wrong tool for your situation, we will say so on the first call.
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Buying your first short-term rental?
Use the first-STR buyer roadmap to choose your next purchase step. Build a cash budget for your first STR, shortlist properties for sale, and review help buying your first Airbnb before you book a call.
Research the service and check the numbers
Use the BNB Accelerator research guide, learn how to read case study results, and test your assumptions with the downside and break-even calculator.
Choose the calculator for your purchase stage
1. Can I fund the purchase and launch?
The first Airbnb purchase budget calculator separates down payment, closing costs, furnishing, repairs, service fees and reserves. Use written lender terms and quotes. A down payment alone is not the cash required to launch a furnished rental.
2. What can the property earn after expenses?
The short-term rental revenue calculator connects nightly rate and occupancy to an expense budget. Compare the model with dated seller statements and similar properties. Keep gross booking revenue, operating profit and cash flow after financing separate.
3. How far can performance fall before cash flow turns negative?
The Airbnb downside and break-even calculator tests lower occupancy and rate assumptions. Check low-season cash requirements as well as the annual total. A break-even result does not account for every repair, tax consequence or financing change.
4. How do ADR, occupancy and RevPAR fit together?
Use the RevPAR formula and calculator to reconcile room revenue, booked nights and available nights. A high nightly rate can coexist with lower revenue when occupancy falls. RevPAR measures revenue productivity, not profitability or investment return.
Prepare an evidence file before trusting a model
- Choose one reporting period and identify owner stays, maintenance closures and nights actually offered to guests.
- Reconcile lodging revenue to monthly statements. Separate cleaning, taxes and other fees.
- Record current insurance, taxes, utilities, management terms, maintenance and replacement allowances.
- Get property-specific financing and closing estimates.
- Run a downside case with reduced rate and occupancy, including the seasonal cash gap.
- Resolve assumptions that could change the buying decision before the contractual diligence deadline.
What is a good Airbnb investment return?
There is no universal return that proves a property is suitable. Two properties with the same revenue can require different capital, reserves and owner involvement. Judge your scenario against verified inputs, alternative uses of your capital and the loss you can absorb. None of these calculators validates a permit, loan approval or promised return.
Continue with how to validate revenue projections, how to read case study results, and the acquisition service scope.