Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for New York City hotels, resorts and serviced apartments: daily rates, restrictions, forecasting and distribution, with a monthly report you can check. Plans start from $650 a month by hotel size, month to month, remote in Eastern Time (UTC-5).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments 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. Hotel revenue management plans are priced monthly by hotel size, with Core from $650 a month, Plus adding channel and segment optimization and Pro adding forecasting and a monthly strategy call. They run month to month and are never a percentage of revenue.
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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
Outsourced hotel revenue management means I do the job of the revenue manager for you: I watch the comp set and pace every day, move rates and restrictions, manage the OTAs, forecast demand and report each month. You keep control of the hotel and see every decision.
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.
From my years in five-star hotels, I bring citywide event forecasting, group displacement analysis and corporate rate negotiation to New York boutique and independent hotels. I also look at how you price against nearby short-term supply, which has shifted noticeably since registration began.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in New York City.
I monitor your comp set and booking pace every day and move rates, rate plans and restrictions as demand shifts, room type by room type.
I manage the channel mix, parity and promotions together across Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Google and your own site, so cost of sale does not eat the gain.
On the higher plans I forecast demand by month and segment, build the annual budget and keep a 12-month pricing calendar tied to the market's real dates.
You get a monthly performance summary, a full ADR, occupancy and RevPAR report on Plus and Pro, and on Pro a monthly strategy call and a quarterly review.
“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.
No revenue manager
The role left or was never hired, and rooms are priced between other duties.
Results have plateaued
RevPAR has stopped moving while the comp set keeps learning.
More than one property
You want one consistent method across a small group without building a department.
An owner or asset manager
You want decisions made by a specialist and reported in numbers you can check.
Room count, room types, channels and the systems you use. I confirm the plan level and the monthly price for your size.
I study your market, comp set and current rates, set up the strategy and connect your PMS or channel manager and pricing tool.
I adjust rates, restrictions and promotions as demand moves, and manage your OTAs on Plus and Pro.
Step 4
You get the report against budget and last year, and on Pro we meet monthly, so nothing I do is hidden.
Priced monthly by your hotel's size, not per room. Core, Plus and Pro, month to month, never a percentage of revenue. Hotels of 200 or more rooms, luxury properties and groups are quoted individually.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Core, up to 20 rooms | Managed pricing, run for you every day | From $650/mo |
| Plus | Pricing plus OTA, channel and segment optimization | By hotel size |
| Pro | Full revenue management with forecasting and a monthly strategy call | By hotel size |
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
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 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. 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. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i raise floors and tighten minimum stays ahead of these windows and review pace every week, so the strongest dates never sell early at a shoulder rate.
For outsourced hotel revenue management, that is the first thing I check before taking on the pricing, because everything else sits on top of it. 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.
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. Next: 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. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a New York City property usually leaks the most.
For outsourced hotel revenue management, in the quiet months my job is to protect the floor, close gaps with length-of-stay and last-minute rules, and keep the property visible on every channel. 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.
Monthly stays priced as nightly rate times 30, which is far above what mid-term guests in the city will pay and one flat premium for the whole of Q4 instead of pricing the specific event dates that actually sell out first. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in New York City, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in New York City, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. 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.
Astoria and Long Island City: Close to Flushing Meadows and an easy ride to Midtown, so I price US Open fortnight up and court airline and film crew monthly stays the rest of the year. Washington Heights and Upper Manhattan and Park Slope and Prospect Heights get their own treatment. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i set rates, comp sets and restrictions per area and per room or listing type, not as one citywide number.
Year-round corporate travel in Manhattan, UN General Assembly and Fashion Week in September and Marathon weekend in November are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in New York City. 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 outsourced hotel revenue management, you get one experienced person who knows your numbers, with a small team and a tool stack behind me, and no account-manager layer in between. I have optimized 1,250+ properties in and around New York City and work remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: 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.
Hotel revenue management plans are priced monthly by hotel size, with Core from $650 a month, Plus adding channel and segment optimization and Pro adding forecasting and a monthly strategy call. They run month to month and are never a percentage of revenue. The scope of outsourced hotel revenue management is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in New York City I would start from 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. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in New York City.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager 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 work in your time zone, report monthly, and the engagement runs month to month with no long-term lock-in. 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 outsourced revenue management.
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.
