Memphis is home to the state’s top new Airbnb hosts.
New hosts have joined Airbnb, the online homesharing app, this year. They have the most guest check-ins in their area and have achieved the highly rated Superhost status on the platform.
For Tennessee, Airbnb’s top new hosts are Gene and Ann (no last name given). The Memphis-based real estate investors say their “Fun and Funky Home” in the Broad Ave. Arts District is their first Airbnb.
Here’s what Airbnb said about the Gene and Ann:
“Gene and Ann’s listing has 93 reviews and they maintain a 4.98 rating as Superhosts who just started hosting this year.
“When speaking with them about why they decided hosting, Gene and Ann told us they were looking for something to do for the next chapter of their lives once both of them are retired and that they decided fixing up a beat down house that was built in 1922 to become Airbnb hosts, was it!
“They did most of the work themselves and inside the listing they have handouts of what the rooms and house looked like before they remodel.”
The house has four bedrooms, five beds, two bathrooms, and can accommodate up to 10 guests. It rents for $130 per night.
The company said new hosts in Tennessee with only one listing made over $17 million from January to October. Since the pandemic began, new hosts across the platform earned $6 billion. All hosts earned $12.8 billion in the third quarter of 2021, up 27 percent for the same period in 2019.
