Selling this business, how to transfer in AirBnB?

[Skip--N-Kathy0]

Guidelines to continue the business?

[Joan2709]

@Skip--N-Kathy0 

Can you clarify? Do you currently have an Airbnb listing and are going to sell the property? Your profile says "Guest".

[Skip--N-Kathy0]

We're Superhosts who are selling the business.  Have sold it. 

It just took 45 min on the phone to catch the unbelievably dumb way this transaction happens, with a new owner wanting ABB. Anyone who is thinking of selling an ABB business, be prepared. 

[Joan2709]

@Skip--N-Kathy0 

Yes...this is true. You cannot transfer ownership of an Airbnb listing to someone buying the property as it's against Airbnb's Terms of Service. The new owner will have to create a whole new listing. All previous reviews remain on your profile and will not transfer to the new owners. If you cancel upcoming reservations, you will be charged cancellation fees.

Other Hosts have commented on this topic and I kept for reference. I can't find their User IDs at the moment to give them credit:

Selling Your Airbnb Property - Options

Host Comment One

"Close your listing to new reservations. You can snooze it so current guests can see it and communicate, but new guests won't see the listing in search results. Add the new owner as a co-host to your listing and add their payout method to your account. This way, the new owner will be able to take care of all upcoming reservations and receive payouts. In the meantime, the new owner can create their own listing and start receiving reservations for available dates. Once the last reservation in your account is complete, you can remove the listing from your account."

Host Comment Two

"The new owners cannot "take over" your account, and you can't really just foist off prior confirmed guests to a new host either, ethically speaking. What you can do is ask the owners to become co-hosts (using a verified Airbnb account of their own), get a commitment from the existing guests if they are comfortable with that arrangement, then handle the payouts privately between the new owners and yourself. After the transition, the new owners can set up their property on their own profile however they choose, and you delist. Win/win! "

Host Comment Three

"Of course you can't transfer bookings to a new owner that would be highly unfair on your guests who booked your listing in good faith based on YOUR reviews and the way you run things. You are not selling 'an airbnb' you are selling a property. Listings are not transferable.  The new owner may want to price and manage the property differently. Really this is something it would have been better for you to look into before you put your house on the market.If you are selling your property you should have just opened up your calendar three months in advance so you didn't accept bookings you knew you couldn't honour. This is what I did and the new host set up a listing to start from when they had ownership of the property. The advice from Airbnb was correct if you cannot honour the bookings you need to cancel them and they can rebook should they wish with the new host. You cannot expect guests to necessarily book with an unknown host. Advise the new owner to set up their own listing."

Link to Topic From A Channel Manager

https://www.hostaway.com/blog/how-to-sell-your-airbnb-property-top-tips/#:~:text=1.,list%20prior%20t...

[Helen3]

As you know listings are rightly non transferable so if the person buying the property wants to market their STR business through Airbnb they would need to set up their own listing.

@Skip--N-Kathy0 

It would be highly unfair to guests who booked with you in good faith based on your ratings and reviews and how your listing is set up to be transferred to a new business to run the property who may not offer the same amenities and who may not offer the same standards when hosting.

when I sold a property I only opened my calendar for three months at a time so I didn't accept bookings I couldn't honour.