Accommodation only in the required location

[MidCoast-Holiday-Rentals0]

As a Manager of Holiday Rentals, I want to see my properties listed in their location. When you search a town you will get properties that are kilometres from where I want to be.

I have searched many pages only to find a handful of properties in the location I am searching.

[Shelley159]

Hi @MidCoast-Holiday-Rentals0 

Go to the listings tab and click the property. Scroll to location and click. You will see the option to show the exact location instead of the general location.

[Bettye6]

Hi @Shelley159,

I have my settings to exact location but this has been a strong grievance for me since I started. So many people & even when I look incognito myself on Google towns up to 40 minutes away pop up first. I feel if a traveler puts in an exact town location that is what they should see. 
Then it was suggested that they offered first what they had filtered in search criteria. That is a blatant false statement as the filters were set to exactly what my listing had. 
Go figure. 
If guests type in a specific town that is what they should see. 
It’s been a frustration of many guests. I suggest them to voice the complaint to AirBnB directly then maybe this bug will be fixed. 
Bettye6

[Joelle43]

100% agree with you @Bettye6 👏  I've lost count the number of times I've said this on here and it baffles me why the algorithme does this as it frustrates the guest no end to like a place, click on it only to discover it's not even in the town entered in the search😩

As you say, by all means show other listings in towns nearby at the end but not on that very first page!!  As it is, I find that there are no where near enough filters for guests to narrow down their choice and I think most give up, frustrated that they see too many listings that don't correspond to what they're looking for.  Other platforms have a great selection of filters and the search is quick and easy but long winded on Airbnb.  Such a shame and frustrating for both hosts and guests alike.  

[Mike-And-Jane0]

@MidCoast-Holiday-Rentals0 The only way to deal with this is to zoom the map in to a narrow area around the place you want to stay.

Sadly Airbnb will do nothing as it likes to control which listings come up in a search so that it can control its hosts. As a result less savvy guests will miss out on potentially cheaper listings just because they, for example, don't allow Instant Book or have a Strict cancellation policy.