Airbnb-friendly program

The Airbnb-friendly program unlocks hosting in residential real estate, such as apartments, condominiums, and townhomes. Building owners, managers, and homeowners’ associations ("building management") can offer residents the ability to host on Airbnb according to their building rules and policies. Through this program, your building management can:

• Establish their own building rules for hosting, tailored to work for their community
• Gain visibility into Airbnb hosting activity in the community
• Leverage tools on Airbnb to receive an agreed portion of the resident’s hosting earnings ("revenue share")

The Airbnb-friendly program also gives building management access to tools, including a customized dashboard to track any revenue share they earn and provides insight into hosting activity for listings opted into the program.

Today, this program has Airbnb-friendly buildings in the United States and internationally, including Canada, Brazil, and the United Kingdom. To find out if your building is part of the program, you can check with your building management. For those in the United States, you can also look for buildings that allow part-time hosting for residents on airbnb.com/airbnb-friendly, though not all buildings in the US are listed here.

Also know that multifamily buildings may allow hosting on Airbnb even if they aren’t part of this program. If your building would like to become Airbnb-friendly, here's where they can learn more.

How it works for hosts

When you are a resident in an Airbnb-friendly building, you can create a listing and host when it works for you, so long as you’re following rules set by your building and all applicable laws. All residents in Airbnb-friendly buildings have to agree to the Airbnb-friendly program terms of service to host, and must comply with any rules set by their building, as well as local rules and restrictions. Through the Airbnb-friendly program, hosts agree to provide their building with visibility into hosting activity.

Building Rules: Created by building management for hosts and guests, Building Rules can include rules like quiet hours, the pet policy for the building and other things that apply to anyone living or staying in the community to help make for a good experience for both long-term residents and short-term guests. In addition, buildings generally have rules and restrictions just for hosts that can limit how much, when and whether you can host. These rules may include a limit on the number of nights residents can host per year, the number of hosts that can list in the building at the same time, maximum or minimum lengths of stay for guests, periods when hosting is not allowed, and occupancy limits for how many Airbnb guests can stay in a listing, based on the size of the apartment. Ask your building management about their rules for hosting before you sign a lease to make sure they work for you. Please also note that the rules may change over time.

Additional lease terms: Buildings may also require residents in Airbnb-friendly apartments to sign lease addenda specific to hosting on Airbnb or may include terms related to the ability to host in your lease. Before you sign a lease, be sure to read and understand any limitations on hosting - like being in good standing on your lease - that are in your lease or related agreements.

Information sharing

As part of the Airbnb-friendly program, Airbnb will share the following information with your building management:

• Your host name
• Address
• Apartment unit number
• Number of nights you’ve hosted in the past calendar year, including any periods before you enrolled in the program, if applicable
• Payout amounts / earnings since you’ve enrolled in the program
• Link to your listing, including your listing’s photos, list of amenities, and description
• Bookings and Reservation info, including guest name, the reservation number, check-in and checkout dates, and number of guests

For additional information on what personal information Airbnb collects, how we use personal information, and how personal information is shared, check out our Privacy Policy.

Revenue share

Your building management may require you to share a portion of your Airbnb earnings as a condition to your participation in the Airbnb-friendly program (“revenue share”).

The revenue share percentage and the specific calculation of your earnings used to determine the revenue share varies by building. The calculation may be based on the nightly rate you set, which includes any management fees, resort fees, or community fees that are rolled into the nightly rate through our professional hosting tools, if applicable. Find out more about Airbnb’s professional hosting tools. The calculation may also include lodging or hotel taxes, cleaning fees, extra guest fees, pet fees, and other fees and amounts you add to your nightly rate, which guests must agree to during checkout.

You can reach out to your building management for information on the specific revenue share percentage and calculation details applicable to your building. This information will also be displayed during the enrollment process.

Your building management may change the revenue share percentage and/or method of calculation from time to time upon no less than thirty (30) days’ written notice. However, if such change reduces the revenue share applied to your earnings, that reduction may be effective on five (5) days’ written notice.

Co-hosts

If you use co-host tools, there are some general limitations to sharing payouts with co-hosts on Airbnb, depending on your and your co-host’s location and/or where your listing is located. Learn more about co-host payouts. In addition to those general limitations, hosts who have opted into the Airbnb-friendly program should know the following:

• United States: For hosts in the US, know that revenue share for each booking is deducted prior to calculating any amounts shared with co-hosts. Co-host payouts are also limited to being set up as a percentage calculation per booking (and not fixed amounts). Due to this limitation, if a listing has any co-host payouts set up as fixed amounts prior to the host opting into the program, those co-host payouts will be removed for all future payouts after the date the host agrees to the Airbnb-friendly terms. In addition, if the revenue share for a building changes, payouts that were previously set up may also be removed. A host may set up new co-host payouts after opting in or the revenue share is changed, so long as the payout is set up as a percentage calculation per booking.
• United Kingdom and Canada: For hosts in the UK and Canada, co-host payouts are only supported if the building does not earn revenue share on bookings. However, if a UK or Canada building in the Airbnb-friendly program does earn revenue share, then co-host payouts are not supported and any UK or Canadian host that has already set up a co-host payout before joining the Airbnb-friendly program will have co-host payouts removed for future payouts after the date on which the host agrees to the Airbnb-friendly terms.

For more information, check out our Limitations for participants in Airbnb-friendly program.