I build your pricing strategy with you, live, in your own account.You share your screen and I build your Newport 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 Newport, United States, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In Newport, I price June to August as the peak and January to 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.
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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 Newport: Newport Folk and Jazz festivals; Mansions and sailing season; Wedding season; Boston and New York weekend travel. Guests I price for: Northeastern couples and groups on 2 to 4 night stays, wedding parties. Where I start: Festival and wedding premiums with minimum stays, and off-season floors.
For Newport Airbnb and Vrbo hosts I set up PriceLabs or Wheelhouse with dated premiums for Folk, Jazz, regatta and boat-show weekends, gap rules that protect Saturdays, and winter floors that still attract Boston and New York couples. Both channels then price from one logic.
The service in general is described on my airbnb pricing strategy page; this page covers how I apply it in Newport.
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.
“Newport is a summer and weddings town. The Folk and Jazz festivals, sailing events and the mansions fill June to September, and wedding weekends shape many Saturdays. Rhode Island requires short-term rental registration. I price festivals and weddings early and make the quiet months work with longer stays.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
I keep weekend rates modest for the Winter Festival and Salve Regina visits, and point midweek toward travelling professionals and sailors fitting out boats for the coming season.
Graduation weekends and the first wedding bookings arrive now, so I price those Saturdays individually and keep the rest of spring flexible with two-night weekends only.
Every weekend here has a reason: regattas, the Hall of Fame Open, Folk, Jazz and weddings. I map each one and protect Saturday nights from single-night bookings.
The International Boat Show and autumn weddings keep weekends close to summer levels, so I only soften midweek and let weekend demand prove itself before cutting.
Christmas in Newport and the mansions dressed for the holidays bring couples on short breaks; I price December weekends above November and hold New Year's Eve firmly.
Price Newport Folk and Jazz festival weekends as top premiums with minimum stays.
Add sailing regattas and popular wedding weekends as date premiums.
Use 2-night weekend minimums from June to September.
Offer monthly stays from January to March.
Keep state registration current.
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 Newport. Keep state registration current. Next: add sailing regattas and popular wedding weekends as date premiums.
Busiest in Newport: June to September, with the Newport Folk and Jazz festivals in July and August and sailing regattas. June to August: Every weekend here has a reason: regattas, the Hall of Fame Open, Folk, Jazz and weddings. I map each one and protect Saturday nights from single-night bookings. September to October: The International Boat Show and autumn weddings keep weekends close to summer levels, so I only soften midweek and let weekend demand prove itself before cutting. 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 Newport: January to March. November to December: Christmas in Newport and the mansions dressed for the holidays bring couples on short breaks; I price December weekends above November and hold New Year's Eve firmly. January to March: I keep weekend rates modest for the Winter Festival and Salve Regina visits, and point midweek toward travelling professionals and sailors fitting out boats for the coming season.
Festival weekends released at ordinary summer rates and wedding weekends sold as single nights. I look for these first when I review Airbnb pricing strategy in Newport, 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 Newport behave differently. Bellevue Avenue and the Ocean Drive area: Larger homes near the mansions suit wedding parties and multi-generation groups, so I sell them as whole-weekend packages with three-night minimums on key Saturdays. The Point and Historic Hill and Middletown and Portsmouth get their own treatment.
Wedding season, Boston and New York weekend travel and Newport Folk and Jazz festivals are the dates I price first for Airbnb pricing strategy in Newport. April to May: Graduation weekends and the first wedding bookings arrive now, so I price those Saturdays individually and keep the rest of spring flexible with two-night weekends only.
For Airbnb pricing strategy in Newport, each channel gets its own markup, so the net rate you receive is the same wherever the booking comes from. Newport sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. April to May: Graduation weekends and the first wedding bookings arrive now, so I price those Saturdays individually and keep the rest of spring flexible with two-night weekends only.
How many guests the home really sleeps for a wedding party, since bridal groups compare bed counts and parking before rate, and parking is scarce near Thames Street. 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 Newport I would start from June to August: Every weekend here has a reason: regattas, the Hall of Fame Open, Folk, Jazz and weddings. I map each one and protect Saturday nights from single-night bookings. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Newport.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Newport the first gains from Airbnb pricing strategy usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: keep state registration current. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
Yes. Airbnb Pricing Expert in Newport is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around Newport have been optimized, including in areas such as Bellevue Avenue and the Ocean Drive area. 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 Newport.
The other services I offer in Newport, 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 Newport, or read the general page for airbnb pricing strategy.
If you also run properties outside Newport, 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 Newport and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
