Decreasing popularity of my apartments

[Cihan1]

Hi Friends,

I am getting less reservation lately and dont understand why. 

Price is ok, and did not change any setting but losing popularity. I have checked occupancy of booking aroud the city and its ok.

Do you have any suggestion to get more reservation ? 

Thank you

[Linda108]

@Cihan1  I am unable to see the listing on your profile.  If you are the co-host, you need to add the URL for any host to see the listing.

[Cihan1]

I am sorry i forgot it. I am controling my friends apartments. Here is the link 

https://www.airbnb.com/users/42984407/listings

[Linda108]

@Cihan1  I see that there are 5 listings.  Are all of them having the same problem?  How does the competition seem?  Are the significantly more listings?  Many hosts have posted the same issue and usually a well managed listing suffers from the cheaper not so good new listings.  More new guests are looking for a bargain and may not understand what is important until that have more experiences.

I did notice that there were large discrepancies between your base price and the date specific price.  This may be problematic for some travelers.  You might want to look into that.

[Cihan1]

Hi @Linda108 ,

I am sorry for late answer. I was away from Kiev.

Yes all of them are having the same problem. I have no idea how does the competition seem. Is there any way to check it ?

Also will It be an effect if change discrepancies between my base price and the date specific price ? 

[Linda108]

@Cihan1  The easiest way to check competition is to go to the Air BNB home search and select criteria that are similar to your listings with a price range that include your high and low prices.  Look at pricing without dates.  That will give you base price information.  See how your listings compare.

I don't know if you have ever searched as a traveler yourself, but many travelers search without dates first to get general base price view of what is in a particular area.  Then they select promising listings and enter dates or save to a wish list.  When there is a large discrepancy between the base price and the date price, that creates a negative impression and may result in the traveler rejecting your listing.  In the US we have a saying called "bait and switch" when something is advertised low, but only the higher price is available.  I try to keep my base price within 10% of my calendar price.  Hope this helps.