I build your pricing strategy with you, live, in your own account.You share your screen and I build your New York City strategy inside PriceLabs or Wheelhouse, explaining every setting. One-time sessions priced by listing count from $125; or run it with Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing from $17.99 per listing per month.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides Airbnb pricing strategy for Airbnb hosts, vacation rental owners and property managers in New York City, United States, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In New York City, I price Late August to mid-December and Mid-December to New Year as the peak and January to early March as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. PriceLabs and Wheelhouse strategy sessions are one-time and priced by listing count: $125 for up to 2 listings, $250 for 3 to 6, $370 for 7 to 10 and $480 for 11 to 15, with larger portfolios priced per listing. Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing software is from $17.99 per listing per month.
Start in the chat or by email. Last updated .
1,250+
Properties optimized in and around New York City
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Eastern Time
Sessions scheduled in your local time
An Airbnb pricing strategy is the set of rules that decide what each night is worth: base, minimum and maximum prices, seasons, events, minimum stays, gap nights, last-minute pricing, length-of-stay discounts and channel markups. The tool applies the rules; the strategy is what makes the tool worth having. Smart Pricing is not a strategy, because it optimizes for Airbnb's fill rate and knows nothing about your events or other channels.
What I plan around in New York City: UN General Assembly and Fashion Week in September; Marathon weekend in November; Holiday season and NYE; Year-round corporate travel in Manhattan. Guests I price for: Short stays of 2 to 4 nights, international leisure travellers and corporate guests, with strong weekend compression in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Where I start: Short-stay pricing under Local Law 18, 30-night minimum strategies where required, and aggressive last-minute rules for a market that books late.
On Airbnb in New York I configure two very different setups: hosted rooms priced per night for two guests with tight late-booking rules, or monthly listings priced against furnished rentals with lead-time logic. I set this inside PriceLabs or Wheelhouse with you so the rules stay compliant.
The service in general is described on my airbnb pricing strategy page; this page covers how I apply it in New York City.
I set the base from a real comp set, a minimum that protects your margin and a maximum that stops you underselling a peak night, listing by listing.
I build seasonal profiles and event premiums from the local calendar, so rates move before demand does and not after.
Minimum stays, gap and orphan nights and length-of-stay discounts are set to fill the calendar without discounting the whole month.
I configure OTA markups so your net rate is the same on Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, and leave time to ask anything about pricing.
“New York is the market where I spend more time on compliance than on rates. Since Local Law 18, a whole apartment rented for under 30 nights is simply not a product, so the real decision is which lane you are in: a registered, host-present room with two guests, or a furnished 30-night rental. Pricing each lane well is very different, and most listings I review are still priced as if 2022 never ended.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
For 30-night units I accept a slightly softer monthly rate to land a February or March move-in, because a vacant month in winter rarely gets recovered later in the year.
Hosted rooms get firm weekend rates through spring, with Tribeca week and graduation weekends at Columbia and NYU loaded as dated premiums instead of a blanket seasonal lift.
Summer interns and visiting academics drive the monthly lane, so I publish June and July start dates early and keep hosted-room weekdays priced against hotels running their summer deals.
The US Open, UN week, Marathon weekend and the Thanksgiving parade each get their own row in the calendar, and I let pickup, not the date alone, decide how high each goes.
I hold hosted rooms at full rate right up to Christmas week and refuse to open New Year's Eve to single nights, since late bookers still arrive for that stretch.
Decide the lane first. If the unit cannot be registered, move it to 30-night minimums and price per month, not per night, with a separate rate card for 1, 2 and 3-month stays.
For registered hosted rooms, price for two guests only and remove extra-guest fees that imply a third person, because the listing will be flagged.
Build September and the November to New Year run as separate seasons. UN week, Marathon weekend and the holiday stretch each deserve their own premium rather than one autumn uplift.
Keep last-minute discounts shallow. New York books late anyway, so a 30 percent discount at 7 days out mostly gives money to guests who would have booked regardless.
Treat January to early March as an occupancy season: lower floors, 2-night minimums on weekends and longer-stay discounts to fill the quiet midweek.
You rely on Smart Pricing
You want a strategy that considers events, gaps and every channel.
You have a tool on defaults
PriceLabs or Wheelhouse is connected but the rules were never set up.
Your pace trails the market
Bookings arrive late or prices look low in peak weeks.
You want to run it yourself
You prefer to price on your own once the strategy is right.
Choose the package for your listing count and a slot in your time zone. Payment is taken securely at booking.
Share the listing links and tool access so I can review competitors and settings before the call.
On Zoom I set seasons, events, stay rules and markups with you on screen, and explain why each setting is there.
Step 4
A revisit session re-tunes the strategy against your results, from $75.
One-time sessions priced by listing count from $125. Wheelhouse follows the same schedule and revisits start from $75. Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing software is from $17.99 per listing per month.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Up to 2 listings, 45-minute session | $125 |
| Growth | 3 to 6 listings, 60-minute session | $250 |
| Portfolio | 7 to 10 listings, 90-minute session | $370 |
| Scale | 11 to 15 listings, 90-minute session | $480 |
| Pro | 16 to 21 listings, 120-minute session | $615 |
| Enterprise | 22 or more listings, 120-minute session | $635 |
Real feedback from PriceLabs pricing strategy sessions with Alaa.
Alaa is a consummate professional! Patient, thorough, efficient and effective in communicating. He not only made savvy adjustments to my dynamic pricing strategy, but also helped me to understand the reasoning behind his methods, granting me a better understanding of the PriceLabs platform. Strong work!
Airbnb host
Alaa was fantastic, going through each of the properties I had and gave great advice and actioned a great game plan. Would highly recommend for anyone looking to enhance their pricing strategy on PriceLabs. Alaa's experience goes beyond this which makes it very beneficial to have this holistic approach.
Property manager
Alaa helped me optimize my PriceLabs settings for my Airbnb listing and was very helpful and patient with answering any questions I had. He was also able to clearly explain why he made the changes he made, and it was obvious that he had a lot of experience in this field. I will definitely be back!
Airbnb host
For Airbnb pricing strategy, the first changes are base and minimum prices and the seasonal profile, since those drive most of the revenue in New York City. Treat January to early March as an occupancy season: lower floors, 2-night minimums on weekends and longer-stay discounts to fill the quiet midweek. Next: for registered hosted rooms, price for two guests only and remove extra-guest fees that imply a third person, because the listing will be flagged.
Busiest in New York City: September to mid-December and late April to June, with a sharp spike around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Eve. Late August to mid-December: The US Open, UN week, Marathon weekend and the Thanksgiving parade each get their own row in the calendar, and I let pickup, not the date alone, decide how high each goes. Mid-December to New Year: I hold hosted rooms at full rate right up to Christmas week and refuse to open New Year's Eve to single nights, since late bookers still arrive for that stretch. For Airbnb pricing strategy, the strategy I build sets seasonal profiles, event premiums and minimum-stay rules around these windows before they open for booking.
For Airbnb pricing strategy, for the quiet months I set the minimum price, last-minute and gap-night rules and length-of-stay discounts so nights fill without dropping below your floor. Quietest in New York City: January to early March, when weekday demand thins outside Midtown. July to August: Summer interns and visiting academics drive the monthly lane, so I publish June and July start dates early and keep hosted-room weekdays priced against hotels running their summer deals. January to early March: For 30-night units I accept a slightly softer monthly rate to land a February or March move-in, because a vacant month in winter rarely gets recovered later in the year.
Whole units still listed for 2 to 5 night stays, which now means lost bookings, blocked listings and fines rather than revenue and monthly stays priced as nightly rate times 30, which is far above what mid-term guests in the city will pay. I look for these first when I review Airbnb pricing strategy in New York City, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For Airbnb pricing strategy, i set base prices and comp sets per area, with a separate profile where two parts of New York City behave differently. Washington Heights and Upper Manhattan: Major hospital campuses bring travelling clinicians and patient families, so I build three-month rate cards here and keep them below what a Midtown furnished unit asks. Astoria and Long Island City and Park Slope and Prospect Heights get their own treatment.
Holiday season and NYE, Year-round corporate travel in Manhattan and UN General Assembly and Fashion Week in September are the dates I price first for Airbnb pricing strategy in New York City. Late March to June: Hosted rooms get firm weekend rates through spring, with Tribeca week and graduation weekends at Columbia and NYU loaded as dated premiums instead of a blanket seasonal lift.
For Airbnb pricing strategy in New York City, each channel gets its own markup, so the net rate you receive is the same wherever the booking comes from. New York City sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Furnished Finder for 30-plus-night stays. Late March to June: Hosted rooms get firm weekend rates through spring, with Tribeca week and graduation weekends at Columbia and NYU loaded as dated premiums instead of a blanket seasonal lift.
How the 30-night version is presented on Furnished Finder and Airbnb, because a monthly listing still showing nightly photos and copy looks like a converted short stay and loses relocation guests. For Airbnb pricing strategy, i check this before touching a single rate, because a base price built on the wrong assumption makes every rule worse.
PriceLabs and Wheelhouse strategy sessions are one-time and priced by listing count: $125 for up to 2 listings, $250 for 3 to 6, $370 for 7 to 10 and $480 for 11 to 15, with larger portfolios priced per listing. Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing software is from $17.99 per listing per month. The scope of Airbnb pricing strategy is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in New York City I would start from late March to June: Hosted rooms get firm weekend rates through spring, with Tribeca week and graduation weekends at Columbia and NYU loaded as dated premiums instead of a blanket seasonal lift. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in New York City.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In New York City the first gains from Airbnb pricing strategy usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: treat January to early March as an occupancy season: lower floors, 2-night minimums on weekends and longer-stay discounts to fill the quiet midweek. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
Yes. Airbnb Pricing Expert in New York City is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 1,250+ properties in and around New York City have been optimized, including in areas such as Washington Heights and Upper Manhattan. I build it live with you on Zoom in your time zone, inside PriceLabs, Wheelhouse or Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in New York City.
The other services I offer in New York City, for hotels and for Airbnb and short-term rentals. Each has its own page for this market.
Back to the revenue management consultant page for New York City, or read the general page for airbnb pricing strategy.
If you also run properties outside New York City, I work in these markets too, and each page is written for that market's own seasons, areas and rules.
Tell me what you run in New York City and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
