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Airbnb Revenue Management in Minnesota
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RevFactor manages 7 Airbnb listings in Minnesota across 3 markets, 5 in the Minneapolis metro and one each in Duluth and Crosslake, for a flat $350 per property per month. Crosslake earns the most per available night at $227 RevPAR and the Minneapolis metro the least at $104, per AirROI data pulled 2026-10-16.
Author: Federico Zimerman, Founder of RevFactor. He spent 10 years in airline revenue management at American Airlines before founding Blackbird Hospitality and RevFactor. LinkedIn.
Reviewed: by the RevFactor strategist process. Listing counts come from the coverage map on the about page, market figures from the AirROI pull dated below, and case study figures from the case study pages. Nothing here is estimated. Last modified 2026-10-21.
Where does RevFactor operate in Minnesota?
Minnesota holds 7 RevFactor homes in 3 markets. The Minneapolis metro has 5: three in Minneapolis, one in Hopkins and one in Stillwater. Duluth and Crosslake have one each. One Minneapolis metro home has a full case study.
| Market | Listings | Localities and listings |
|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis Metro | 5 | Hopkins 1, Minneapolis 3, Stillwater 1 |
| Duluth | 1 | Duluth 1 |
| Crosslake | 1 | Crosslake 1 |
The Minneapolis metro has its own page with a 12-month RevPAR series. Duluth and Crosslake appear in the data table without pages, since one home each does not support a market page.
What do Minnesota Airbnb markets earn?
Three Minnesota localities were pulled from AirROI on 2026-10-16: Minneapolis, with 1,651 active listings, Duluth with 382 and Crosslake with 112. All three clear the 30-listing floor.
| Market | ADR | Occupancy | RevPAR | Lead time | Stay | AirROI listings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis Metro | $208 | 48% | $104 | 40 days | 5.4 nights | 1,651 |
| Duluth | $315 | 46% | $159 | 48 days | 3.3 nights | 382 |
| Crosslake | $488 | 40% | $227 | 82 days | 4.1 nights | 112 |
| Computed across 3 RevFactor markets (unweighted mean) | $337 | 45% | $163 |
The three markets are in different tiers. Crosslake averages $488 a night, Duluth $315 and the Minneapolis metro $208, so the lake market charges 2.3 times the metro rate. Occupancy is closer: 48% in the metro, 46% in Duluth and 40% in Crosslake.
RevPAR follows rate more than fill: $227 in Crosslake, $159 in Duluth and $104 in the metro. The Minneapolis metro is the highest-occupancy market of the three and the lowest earner per available night.
Crosslake guests book 82 days ahead, the second longest lead time on the whole RevFactor map. Duluth guests book 48 days ahead and Minneapolis guests 40. The longer the lead time, the earlier a host has to commit to a summer rate.
Stays run 5.4 nights in the metro, 3.3 in Duluth and 4.1 in Crosslake. The unweighted mean across the three markets is $337 ADR, 45% occupancy and $163 RevPAR, a reading aid and not a Minnesota benchmark.
When do Minnesota markets earn the most?
The Minneapolis metro is the only Minnesota market with a monthly RevPAR series. Duluth and Crosslake have summary rows only.
| Market | Best month | Best RevPAR | Weakest month | Weakest RevPAR | Best to weakest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis Metro | July | $162 | February | $64 | 2.5x |
The metro peaked in July at $162 RevPAR and bottomed in February at $64, a 2.5-times range. The data shows when guests pay and not why, and one year does not forecast the next.
What happened to RevFactor listings in Minnesota?
One Minneapolis metro home has a full case study: a 4-bedroom home in Hopkins, owned by Cecilia. The figures below are booked pacing for June to August 2026 as of the May data pull, which is on-the-books revenue and not earned revenue.
| 4BR home in the Minneapolis metro | On the books | Same time last year |
|---|---|---|
| Booked revenue, Jun to Aug 2026 | $18,593 | $9,237 |
| Average daily rate | $465 | $342 |
| Occupancy | 43.5% | 29.4% |
That 4-bedroom home had $18,593 on the books against $9,237 a year earlier. It is one home in a market with 1,651 active listings, so it shows the method and does not set expectations for a lake cabin in Crosslake. See all case studies.
How do we price an Airbnb in Minnesota?
A Minnesota home sits in a metro, a port city or a lake town, and each is priced on a different clock. The Minneapolis metro runs from $64 in February to $162 in July. Crosslake's 82-day lead time puts its summer decisions in the winter.
In the metro the 48% occupancy is the best fill in the state, so the lever is rate, not exposure. A 2.5-times swing from February to July means a flat rate leaves $162 dates priced like February dates. I raise the base rate into the summer and keep a floor for the winter weeks.
With a 40-day lead time, the metro books closer to the stay than the lakes do. Rates for the next four to six weeks are where most of the revenue is decided, so I review those every week and look at the comp set before touching a date inside two weeks.
Crosslake is the other end. $488 a night and 40% occupancy leave a thin calendar at a high price, and guests book about 82 days ahead. The decision is how early to open the summer calendar and at what rate, and the cost of getting it wrong falls on the best weeks.
Duluth sits between them, with $315 ADR, 46% occupancy and a 3.3-night stay. RevFactor manages one Duluth home and one Crosslake home, so I treat each as an observation and do not describe a pattern.
Orphan nights, the vacant dates stranded between bookings, fell from 25.0% to 11.9% of vacant nights across the RevFactor portfolio. In the metro, where stays average 5.4 nights, a stranded night is a cleaning with nothing behind it, and gap rules are the first thing I set.
A Minnesota host does not hand over guests or housekeeping. The strategist handles pricing rules and calendar settings only, signed in through the host's PriceLabs login.
Federico Zimerman, Founder of RevFactor.
Who is RevFactor for in Minnesota, and who is it not for?
A GOOD FIT
- You own one to five Minnesota homes, in the metro or at a lake, and want the rate set for the calendar you actually have.
- Your lake home books far in advance and you want someone to review the summer rate before the calendar opens.
- You want a flat monthly fee and a strategist watching pacing against a comp set.
NOT A FIT
- You are looking for a manager to run guests, cleaners or turnovers in Minnesota. RevFactor does pricing and calendar rules and nothing else.
- You expect the Minneapolis case study result for a lake cabin. It is one home in the metro, and pacing is not a forecast.
- You own over five Minnesota properties and expect the flat price; bigger portfolios are quoted separately.
What does RevFactor cost for 1 to 5 properties in Minnesota?
Minnesota costs $350 a month for each home, with a one-time $150 setup charge per home. The 7 Minnesota listings on the map would come to $2,450 a month. No share of revenue is taken. See pricing for terms.
| Properties | Monthly | First month |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $350 | $500 |
| 2 | $700 | $1,000 |
| 3 | $1,050 | $1,500 |
| 4 | $1,400 | $2,000 |
| 5 | $1,750 | $2,500 |
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How were these numbers measured?
Listing counts come from the RevFactor coverage map on the about page. Market figures come from AirROI's market summary for one locality per market, pulled 2026-10-16. The Minneapolis metro RevPAR series comes from AirROI. The three-market mean is my arithmetic, an unweighted average and not an AirROI statewide number, and no Minnesota region endpoint was used. Ratios are arithmetic on the printed values. Case study figures are booked pacing from the case study page.
Sources and data
- AirROI market summaries and RevPAR series: https://www.airroi.com, pulled 2026-10-16.
- Minnesota listing counts and localities: the coverage map on the about page.
- Fees: /pricing/.
- Portfolio benchmarks: the STR revenue benchmarks post.
- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, checked 2026-10-20. Statement on that page: “Minnesota Department of Natural Resources official website. The mission of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is to work with citizens to conserve and manage the state's natural resources, to provide outdoor recreation opportunities, and to provide for commercial uses of natural resources in a way that creates a sustainable quality of life.”
- NOAA NCEI State Climate Summaries 2022 (Minnesota), checked 2026-10-20. Statement on that page: “Temperatures in Minnesota have risen more than 2.5°F since the beginning of the 20th century.”
Back to all markets. Market pages in Minnesota: Minneapolis Metro. Other Great Lakes and Midwest states: Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin. Related: the service, the ranked list, case studies.
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