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About 30,000 of Hawaii’s 557,000 total housing units, or 5.5%, are short-term rentals, compared to cities like Las Vegas, where only 3% are short-term rentals, the report said.
In July 2018, Vacasa launched Vacasa Real Estate to support buyers and sellers of vacation rentals through a national expert agent network. [11] [44] As Vacasa's real estate arm continued to expand, the company launched brokerages in Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, Oregon and South Carolina, with future plans to expand throughout the country. [45]
Zillow Group, Inc., or simply Zillow, is an American tech real-estate marketplace company that was founded in 2006 [4] by co-executive chairmen Rich Barton [5] and Lloyd Frink, former Microsoft executives and founders of Microsoft spin-off Expedia; Spencer Rascoff, a co-founder of Hotwire.com; David Beitel, Zillow's current chief technology officer; and Kristin Acker, Zillow's current ...
Vacation rentals can also negatively affect local communities in a number of ways. While not the major cause of limited affordable housing, vacation rentals negatively affect the long-term housing market in local communities, especially tourism communities. As more short-term rentals increase, the availability of long-term units decreases.
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Through short-term rental, landlords can make upwards of 30% more than they would on a rent controlled property. [citation needed] Thus landlords convert their properties into short-term rental units, and there are fewer long-term housing options available to permanent residents. Landlords also sometimes pressure and coerce people out of their ...
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Rent-to-own, a term used in the United States for rental of furniture or appliances. The term is also used in the US for real estate transactions, where the tenant has an option to purchase the property at a fixed price at a specified future time. Such arrangements are also known as lease-option, lease-to-own or lease to purchase option.