Eight companies manage short-term rentals for Los Angeles property owners at meaningful scale. They are ranked here on five criteria any owner can verify independently.
LA focus·Fee transparency·Regulatory depth·Review standing·Track record
Why LALuxuryBnB places first: it is the only company on this list operating in a single market, it operates a boutique experience so your property gets the utmost care, it operates with advanced software, guest screening and hospitality grade revenue management, and it holds the highest Google rating of any full-service manager on this list with more than 100 reviews.
Where it loses outright: Guestable publishes the best short-term rental regulatory content in Los Angeles. That doesn't make them the most knowledgeable, but they do have the most published regulatory content.
All figures pulled September 10, 2026.
We are one of the companies on this list, so read it the way you would read any comparison written by a participant. What we can offer is transparency: every criterion is stated before the ranking, every number is dated, every homepage screenshot was taken the same day at the same window size, and every place a competitor beats us is written down rather than left out. If a figure here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it.
Since 2012 | 8,000+ Bookings | 30,000+ Guest Nights | 4.92-Star Average Across 5,000+ Airbnb and VRBO Reviews
How We Ranked These Companies
Five criteria, applied to every company the same way. Each one is something you can verify yourself in about ten minutes, which is the point. A ranking you cannot check is just an opinion with a table around it.
1. Los Angeles focus
How much of the company is actually pointed at this city. A manager running 140 markets and a manager running one make different decisions about where attention goes when something breaks on a Saturday night. We counted the markets each company claims on its own website.
2. Fee transparency
Whether the company publishes what it charges, without requiring a sales call. Three of the eight publish a standard rate, two publish a starting rate or a range, and three publish nothing. That is not a scandal, but it is a real difference in how easy the company is to evaluate before you have handed over your phone number.
3. Regulatory expertise
Published, substantive guidance on the LA Home-Sharing Ordinance, registration, the 120-day cap and Transient Occupancy Tax. Los Angeles enforces its rules and scans listing platforms for unregistered properties, so a manager who has never written a paragraph about permits is telling you something.
4. Review standing
Google rating and review count, pulled for every company on the same day, September 10, 2026, from the same platform. Ratings across different platforms are not comparable, so we did not mix them. Most of these reviews come from guests who stayed rather than owners who hired, a limitation that applies to every company here including us.
5. Track record
Years operating, taken only from what the company states publicly. Where a company does not publish a founding year, the table says so rather than guessing.
What we deliberately did not measure
Portfolio size. Property counts are not defined the same way twice. Some companies count co-listed inventory belonging to partner managers, some count homes they market but do not operate, and almost nobody defines the term. A number that means something different at every company is not a criterion.
Google Maps position. Map results change depending on where the person searching is physically standing. The same query run in Woodland Hills and in Santa Monica returns different companies in a different order, so ranking by it would just report where we happened to run the search.
Anything we could not verify. Several companies here publish impressive statistics about themselves. Where a number is a company's own claim and we could not confirm it independently, we have attributed it to them rather than repeating it as fact.
Los Angeles Airbnb Management Companies Compared
All figures verified live on September 10, 2026. Google ratings were pulled for every company on the same day from Google Business Profile listings. "Not published" means the company does not state a figure on its own website, not that the figure is unknown to the company.
Los Angeles Airbnb management companies compared on best-for specialty, published standard management fee, markets served, Google rating and review count, and years operating. Figures pulled September 10, 2026.
Owners who want a local manager in Los Angeles to operate a high-end boutique experience with hospitality grade revenue management and extensive guest screening.
20% standard
Los Angeles and Southern California only
5.0 (138)
Since 2012 with over 5,000 reviews across Airbnb, VRBO, Google, etc
Fee figures are each company's published standard short-term-rental management rate. Several publish additional tiers for luxury properties or stays of 30 nights and longer; those are covered in the individual write-ups below.
First, a shortcut: look at what each homepage asks you to do
Every entry below carries that company's homepage, captured on the same day at the same window size. They are worth a few seconds each, because a homepage is the clearest statement a company makes about who it is built for, and it is much harder to spin than an About page.
Four of these eight homepages open with a guest booking search bar asking for dates and guest counts. That is not a criticism, it is a business model: those companies sell stays to travelers first and management to owners second. The rest lead with owner copy, an income estimate, or a lead form. Neither is wrong, but if you are an owner trying to work out whose attention you would actually have, it is a fast and honest signal, and you can check it yourself in a browser in about a minute.
The Companies, One by One
01
LALuxuryBnB
Owners who want a local manager in Los Angeles to operate a high-end boutique experience with hospitality grade revenue management and extensive guest screening.
laluxurybnb.com
Leads with: an owner headline and an income-estimate button. Homepage captured September 10, 2026.
LALuxuryBnB has managed short-term rentals in Los Angeles and Southern California since 2012. That is the basis for the first-place ranking on the LA focus criterion: every other company on this list earns revenue somewhere that is not Los Angeles. Over 14 years the portfolio has run more than 8,000 bookings and 30,000+ guest nights, at a 4.92-star average across 5,000+ guest reviews on Airbnb and VRBO.
The LALuxuryBnB portfolio averages roughly 74%, against a Los Angeles market average of 42.7% reported by AirROI for the year ending May 2026, about 30 points above market. That 74% is direct booking data, not a third-party measurement. The independent floor is AirROI's own tracking of the same LALuxuryBnB listings: measured on AirROI's method rather than the company's, LALuxuryBnB still sits more than 20 points above the market average AirROI publishes.
Published fee
20% standard
Markets
Los Angeles and Southern California only
Google (September 10, 2026)
5.0 (138)
Operating since
Since 2012 with over 5,000 reviews across Airbnb, VRBO, Google, etc
Pros
checkThe only single-market operator on this list: Los Angeles and Southern California, and nowhere else, since 2012
checkHospitality grade revenue management and advanced guest screening: Proprietary revenue management and guest screening systems built on 14 years of data points. Not some off the shelf dynamic pricing system.
checkHighest Google rating of any full-service manager here: 5.0 across 138 reviews, among those with more than 100
checkPublishes its own portfolio performance: roughly 74% occupancy against AirROI's 42.7% Los Angeles market average
checkRuns the full luxury tier, not just the volume tier: Beverly Hills and Encino Hills Estates alongside well appointed properties in the Valley and the Westside.
Cons
Guestable publishes more guidance on Los Angeles permit rules although LALuxuryBnB has the unique Los Angeles Home Sharing permit Live Permit Tracker. On raw Google review volume, The Maimon Group, Villoura and AvantStay all carry more reviews than LALuxuryBnB's 138.
Best for: Los Angeles owners, from Valley single-family homes to Beverly Hills estates, who want one team accountable for the whole operation, a boutique experience rather than 'mass' management, and some of the most advanced guest screening and revenue management in the industry.
Pricing: 20% of nightly rental income. 18% for luxury properties holding a consistent nightly rate of $800 or more. 12% to 18% on stays of 30 nights or longer. No setup fee, no cut of cleaning-fee income.
02
Open Air Homes
Owners who want published performance data before they sign
openairhomes.com
Leads with: a guest-facing hero and a Reserve button. Homepage captured September 10, 2026.
Open Air Homes is the closest thing to a direct peer for the number one entry. They operate in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, state 14 years in business, hold a California brokerage license, keep offices in Venice and Palm Springs with the addresses published, and run roughly 40 dedicated neighborhood management pages.
They are also one of only two companies here that publish real operating numbers rather than adjectives. The company reports 70.1% Los Angeles occupancy for 2025, a 4.89 Airbnb rating, and first-page Airbnb visibility of 56.5%. That is a materially higher standard of disclosure than most of this list meets.
Published fee
20%, plus $125/month
Markets
Los Angeles and Palm Springs
Google (September 10, 2026)
5.0 (3)
Operating since
Company states 14 years
Pros
checkPublishes its own performance data: occupancy, Airbnb rating and first-page visibility, all stated on-site
checkGenuinely transparent on fees: the rate appears on the pricing page and inline on neighborhood pages
checkNo vendor markups: the flat monthly fee explicitly replaces markups on maintenance and supplies
checkTwo published offices and a licensed brokerage: Venice and Palm Springs addresses, DRE license displayed
checkSmart compliance play in restricted cities: separate 30-night-plus positioning for Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and West Hollywood
Cons
The fee is a flat 20% plus a $125 monthly platform fee, which you pay in months when the property earns nothing. Their Google Business Profile carries only 3 reviews, so their public proof lives almost entirely on Airbnb rather than anywhere you can independently sample it. And the positioning is Southern California rather than Los Angeles specifically, which shows in copy that has to cover the desert markets too.
Best for: Owners who want to see a manager's actual numbers before committing, and owners with property in both Los Angeles and the desert markets.
Pricing: A flat 20% of the accommodation fare plus a flat $125 per month platform fee, dropping to 15% automatically on bookings of three months or longer.
03
Air Concierge
Owners who want distribution through alternative travel brands
airconcierge.net
Leads with: owner copy, with Book a Home as the top button. Homepage captured September 10, 2026.
Air Concierge has the best distribution story on this list. The partnerships are named: Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy, American Express Select Homes and Retreats, Google Vacation Rentals, Expedia and Hopper Homes. For a high-nightly-rate property that can make a difference, because it can reach some travelers who don't use Airbnb.
This is from their homepage about the business model they operate.
“Air Concierge is a booking and revenue company... We earn a management fee only when we book your home.”
airconcierge.net homepage
Published fee
22% standard
Markets
9 markets, plus a nationwide remote service
Google (September 10, 2026)
4.9 (168)
Operating since
Not published
Pros
checkNamed brand partnerships:: Marriott Bonvoy, American Express, Google, Expedia, Hopper
checkPublishes a full fee ladder: standard, luxury, and three long-stay tiers, all on the LA page
checkSecond-highest review count among full-service managers here: 4.9 across 168 Google reviews
checkLicensed and locally present: California real estate license #02163450 and an Encino address
checkA remote option for owners who staff locally themselves: their offsite tier runs 10% to 16%
Cons
At 22% they are the most expensive published standard rate here. They serve nine markets plus a nationwide remote service, so Los Angeles is a portion of the business rather than the business. Despite operating in one of the most regulated short-term rental markets in the country, Los Angeles, they have published essentially nothing on Home-Sharing registration or Transient Occupancy Tax. Their blog exists but the most recent posts date to October 2025.
Best for: Owners of high-nightly-rate homes who want reach into Marriott, Amex and Google travel channels, and who are comfortable paying the highest published rate on this list for it.
Pricing: 22% standard. 18% Luxe for bookings at $1,000 per night or more. 15% for stays of 30 days or longer, dropping to 12% at 90 days. A separate offsite tier at 10% to 16%.
04
Guestable
Owners who want an established national company rather than a true local operator
guestable.com
Leads with: an owner lead-capture form. Homepage captured September 10, 2026.
Guestable wins the regulatory publishing outright, and it is not close. Their Los Angeles short-term rental guide runs roughly 1,745 words and covers the Home-Sharing Ordinance, the 120-day cap, the primary-residence requirement, Transient Occupancy Tax, zoning lookups and step-by-step registration. They maintain more than twenty such guides city by city. This does not necessarily translate to better operations, but they do have extensive publishing.
If you want to understand what you are signing up for legally before you talk to anybody, read theirs. Worth noting where that recommendation comes from: Guestable outranks LALuxuryBnB in Google's map results across the Westside, so this is a category conceded to a direct competitor rather than a safe compliment.
Published fee
5% to 15% starting rates
Markets
100+ locations across North America and the Caribbean
Google (September 10, 2026)
4.9 (115)
Operating since
Not published
Pros
checkThe best short-term rental regulatory content in this market: a roughly 1,745-word Los Angeles guide plus 20+ city-by-city guides
checkThe broadest partner network here: corporate housing, executive relocations, brokers, insurance adjusters, healthcare and film production
checkStrong owner-facing conversion path: income estimate, consultation booking and live chat on the homepage
checkActive publishing cadence: a large, regularly updated blog rather than a dormant one
Cons
Since September 2026 they publish starting rates of 5%, 10% and 15% by service level, with a disclaimer that these are not fixed management fees. Their own FAQ still answers the pricing question by describing the industry range, fifteen to twenty-five percent, rather than their own rate. And the local claim deserves scrutiny: their Los Angeles page says their local team lives right here in Los Angeles, while the site carries more than 100 location pages spanning North America and, as of this year, the Caribbean, including St Barts, Anguilla, Barbados, the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos. Los Angeles is about eight pages of that. Excellent writing about Los Angeles rules is not the same thing as being a Los Angeles company.
Best for: Owners who want to understand the legal picture before they hire anyone, and owners whose property suits corporate housing, relocation or film-production demand.
Pricing: Starting rates of 5% for revenue management only, 10% for rental marketing and 15% for full service, published with a disclaimer that these are not fixed management fees. Their FAQ separately cites an industry range of fifteen to twenty-five percent.
05
The Maimon Group
Owners who want events, film locations and concierge attached to the rental
themaimongroup.com
Leads with: a guest booking search bar. Homepage captured August 15, 2026.
Founded by brothers Tal and Nir Maimon in 2017, The Maimon Group has built something genuinely broader than a management company. Alongside rentals they run concierge services, VIP transportation, event venues and film-location placement, with a formal partner network of travel advisors and real estate agents feeding it. They carry 4.9 stars across 547 Google reviews, four times the count of the company ranked first here, and publish a real Los Angeles address.
If your property earns as a venue and a production location as well as a rental, that combination is genuinely hard for a conventional management company to match.
checkThe second-largest Google review base of any LA-headquartered company here: 4.9 across 547 reviews
checkA formalized partner network: travel advisors and real estate agents with published commission terms
checkConcierge depth around the stay: transportation, staffing and curated experiences
Cons
They publish no management fee. Their footprint is now stated as 30+ global destinations spanning Los Angeles, Palm Springs, San Diego, Miami and Israel, so Los Angeles is one market among many. They publish no guidance on Los Angeles permits or Transient Occupancy Tax. The company reports outperforming the market by 40% and states 75+ global partners and 100+ exclusive owners; none of those figures carry published documentation. Their homepage leads with a guest booking search, and their owner-facing material sits several clicks behind it.
Best for: Owners of estates that also earn as event venues or production locations, and who want a travel-advisor network selling them.
Pricing: Not published. A Gold Program tier is named without a rate.
06
Villoura
Owners who want guest-side demand and will confirm what the service now covers
villoura.com
Leads with: a guest booking search bar. Homepage captured September 10, 2026.
Villoura carries the strongest raw review numbers of any Los Angeles-focused company on this list: 5.0 stars across 626 Google reviews. Their portfolio is genuinely high-end, their guest vetting is serious, and they are set up for clients who need privacy and discretion. If you were choosing on public reputation alone, they would look like the obvious answer.
Through August 2026 Villoura described itself on its own property management page as a guest-side company: marketing, guest vetting, bookings and concierge, with permits, compliance, maintenance and day-to-day operations left to the owner. That description was removed in September 2026, and the site now says the team handles every operational detail. The Internet Archive holds the earlier wording in a capture dated 17 August 2026. Whether the operation itself changed in that window is not something the public record shows, so ask directly which of those tasks the fee covers.
Published fee
Not published
Markets
Los Angeles, Miami and Mykonos
Google (September 10, 2026)
5.0 (626)
Operating since
Not published
Pros
checkThe highest review count of any LA-focused company here: 5.0 across 626 Google reviews
checkSerious guest vetting and discretion: built for clients who need privacy
Cons
Their published service description changed in September 2026. Through August they stated that permits, compliance, maintenance and day-to-day operations remained the owner's responsibility; the site now states the team manages every operational detail, without saying whether that includes Los Angeles permit and registration assistance. They publish no management fee. And Los Angeles is no longer the whole business: the company states 220+ estates across Los Angeles, Miami and Mykonos.
Best for: Owners of high-end villas weighing a company with strong guest-side demand and a published service scope that changed in September 2026.
Pricing: Not published.
07
The Nightfall Group
Owners of trophy villas who want concierge and lifestyle services attached
nightfallgroup.com
Leads with: a destination picker for guests. Homepage captured September 10, 2026.
Operating since 2015 out of Beverly Hills, The Nightfall Group pairs luxury villa rentals with a full lifestyle operation: yacht and jet charters, private chefs, chauffeurs, security and event management. They hold 4.9 stars across 65 Google reviews and appear consistently in Google's Los Angeles map results for management searches, which is why they are on this list.
The company reports being named the 6th fastest-growing company in the United States by Inc. 5000, and the badge sits on their homepage.
Published fee
20% to 30%
Markets
Los Angeles plus 10+ international destinations
Google (September 10, 2026)
4.9 (65)
Operating since
Since 2015
Pros
checkA genuine lifestyle and concierge operation: yacht and jet charters, chefs, chauffeurs, security, events
checkBeverly Hills base with real Westside map presence: consistently in the local pack for LA management searches
checkInternational reach for owners with property abroad: one relationship across LA, Europe and the Caribbean
checkBoutique by design: a small client base rather than a volume operation
Cons
Los Angeles is one node in an international network spanning Miami, the Hamptons, St Barth, St Tropez, Cannes, Mykonos, Ibiza, Marbella, Marrakech and Dubai. They publish a commission of 20% to 30% rather than a single rate, and no Los Angeles regulatory guidance. Their center of gravity is the guest experience and the concierge business rather than the operational side of running a property, and 65 reviews is the smallest base on this list.
Best for: Owners of a small number of trophy properties who want the lifestyle layer, yachts, jets, chefs and security, bundled into the guest offer.
Pricing: 20% to 30% of the advertised price, stated in the FAQ on their list-with-us page.
08
AvantStay
Owners of large homes built for group travel
avantstay.com
Leads with: a guest booking search bar. Homepage captured September 10, 2026.
AvantStay is the largest company here by a wide margin and a genuinely different animal: a venture-backed hospitality technology company rather than a local operator. They have built real proprietary software, Lighthouse for owner reporting, Butler for guest experience and Voyage for pricing, and they distribute across dozens of channels. Their Google review rating is not very impressive, and something to be mindful of, and not unusual for a very large company.
If you own a six-bedroom house designed for group trips and corporate retreats, that is precisely the demand they are built to capture, and their scale is an asset rather than a liability.
checkBuilt specifically for group-travel inventory: large homes for group trips, retreats and events
checkThe widest distribution on this list: dozens of booking channels plus a large direct audience
checkMainstream press profile: the company displays Forbes, WSJ, Conde Nast Traveler and other logos on its homepage
Cons
They now state 140+ markets nationwide, so Los Angeles is a fraction of a fraction. They publish no fee, describing it only as a percentage of gross booking revenue personalized per property. They carry the lowest Google rating on this list, 4.7, though across by far the most reviews, which is a normal pattern at scale and worth reading as such rather than as a verdict. They publish no Los Angeles neighborhood or permit content. The company reports a 20% average revenue lift over traditional managers; no supporting study is cited.
Best for: Owners of six-bedroom-plus homes designed for group trips and corporate retreats, who value software and scale over local specificity.
Pricing: Not published. Described as a percentage of gross booking revenue, personalized by property.
Short-Term Rental Management Is Not the Same as Property Management
This trips up more Los Angeles owners than anything else on this page, and search results actively make it worse. Search for the best short-term rental companies in Los Angeles and you will get a mix of genuine short-term rental operators and traditional long-term property managers, several of which do not handle short-term rentals at all. The two businesses share a word and almost nothing else.
A traditional property manager places a tenant on a 12-month lease, collects rent once a month, and handles the occasional maintenance call. It is a real service and it typically costs around 10% of rent. A short-term rental manager runs a hospitality business on your property: dozens of guest arrivals a year, nightly rates that move with demand, a full turnover clean between every stay, round-the-clock guest communication, guest screening, and Home-Sharing compliance with the City of Los Angeles. That is why the fee is roughly double. The work is not roughly double, it is an order of magnitude more.
One question sorts them immediately: how many short-term rental bookings did you process last year? A short-term rental operator will have a large number. A long-term manager will change the subject. For reference, LALuxuryBnB has processed over 8,000 short term rental bookings since 2012.
Who We Left Off, and Why
A list is defined as much by its exclusions as its entries, so here are ours. Every company had to clear the same floor: five or more years operating in Los Angeles, a verifiable public review base of at least 50 reviews on a single platform, and a business primarily serving property owners rather than travelers.
Newer and smaller Los Angeles operators. There are smaller boutique managers but we also believe longevity in the business carries weight and we don't want fly-by-night operators but rather established businesses with longevity. That is a statement about the floor we set, not about the quality of their work. We revisit them at each quarterly refresh.
Long-term property management companies. They appear on these searches constantly and manage real estate well, but a 12-month lease business is not a short-term rental business. Some of them may moonlight and also do a few short-term rentals, but we don't believe they should be considered for this list because of being large long-term property management companies operating a small subsidiary of short-term rentals.
National brands with no Los Angeles operation. Companies that appear on national roundups but run no local team here were excluded on the Los Angeles focus criterion.
Real estate agents and brokerages who blog about short-term rentals. Some of them rank very well for these searches and write useful material. They are not management companies.
How to Actually Choose, Whoever You Pick
If you take one thing from this page, take this: the management fee is the easiest number to compare and the least useful one on its own. A manager at 15% who keeps your calendar 55% full leaves you with less money than a manager at 20% who keeps it 75% full. Compare the fee against occupancy and nightly rate together, and be suspicious of anyone who will discuss only the first.
Six questions worth asking whoever you are talking to:
What occupancy do your Los Angeles properties actually run, and over what period? A manager who cannot answer this from memory is not measuring it.
What is your fee charged on, and what sits on top of it? Ask specifically about cleaning-fee income, monthly platform or software fees, onboarding fees, and vendor markups.
Who handles my Home-Sharing registration, and what happens if I approach the 120-day cap? Los Angeles enforces this. A blank look here is disqualifying.
Is the agreement month-to-month, and how much notice do I need to leave? Terms vary widely and are rarely volunteered.
Who physically shows up when something breaks at 11pm on a Saturday? Ask whether that is an employee, a 3rd party vendor, or a call center in another time zone just giving an apology.
Can I block my own dates whenever I want? If you plan to use the property yourself, get the answer before you sign, not after.
Ask us the same six. Our answers are on our FAQ page and our pricing page, in writing, before you call.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the best Airbnb management company in Los Angeles?expand_more
There is no single answer that fits every owner, which is why this page ranks companies against stated criteria instead of just asserting a winner. If your priority is a manager who provides a boutique experience while using hospitality-grade revenue management and guest screening, we place ourselves first, and the table above shows why: proprietary in-house software, 14 years in the Los Angeles Short Term rental market, a published fee, and a 5.0 Google rating across 138 reviews.
Be skeptical of any list where the company publishing it wins every category. This one does not, and that is deliberate.
How much does it cost to have someone manage my Airbnb in Los Angeles?expand_more
Full-service short-term rental management in Los Angeles runs roughly 15% to 30% of nightly rental income. Of the eight companies on this page, only three publish a standard rate you can hold them to: LALuxuryBnB at 20%, Air Concierge at 22%, and Open Air Homes at a flat 20% plus a $125 monthly platform fee. Two more publish a number without committing to it: Guestable lists starting rates from 5% to 15% while stating those are not fixed management fees, and The Nightfall Group publishes a 20% to 30% range. The other three ask you to book a call to find out.
Watch what the percentage is charged on and what sits on top of it. Some managers take a cut of cleaning-fee income, some add monthly software or platform fees, some charge onboarding or setup fees. We charge on nightly rental income only, with no setup fee and no cut of cleaning-fee income, so the number you are quoted is the number you pay.
What is a typical Airbnb management fee?expand_more
Nationally, full-service Airbnb management typically lands between 15% and 30% of nightly revenue, and Los Angeles sits inside that range. A rate below 15% almost always signals a narrower service, listing and pricing only, with cleaning and maintenance left to you. A rate above 25% usually reflects either an ultra-luxury service tier or a market with unusually high operating costs.
The fee percentage is the easiest number to compare and the least useful one on its own. A manager charging 15% who keeps your calendar 55% full leaves you worse off than one charging 20% who keeps it 75% full. Compare the fee against occupancy and nightly rate, not in isolation.
Do Los Angeles management companies handle luxury and high-end properties?expand_more
Most of the companies on this page do, and several are built around the luxury tier specifically. Villoura, The Maimon Group and The Nightfall Group all work almost exclusively at the high end, and Air Concierge publishes a dedicated Luxe rate for bookings at $1,000 a night or more. Keep in mind when we say luxury tier, there are different levels of this also, including massive $15 million-plus estates, but also what we still consider luxury tier homes that can be in the $2 million to $5 million range.
We manage the full range, and the high end is a real part of the portfolio rather than an aspiration. Our Beverly Hills properties averaged $916 a night across 2025, peaked above $1,000 a night in June, and ran 82.7% occupancy, the highest of any area we manage. The service is the same one we run across the portfolio: the same screening, the same revenue management, the same reporting. What changes at the top of the market is the standard of finish to the properties, the guest expectation, and the amenities provided in the home, including supplies such as the welcome basket, luxury soaps, and lotions, etc., but not the fundamentals of running the property well.
What is the difference between an Airbnb management company and a property management company?expand_more
They are different businesses that happen to share a word. A traditional property manager handles long-term tenants: they place a renter on a 12-month lease, collect rent once a month, and field the occasional maintenance call, usually for around 10% of rent. A short-term rental manager runs a hospitality operation: dozens of guest arrivals a year, dynamic nightly pricing, turnover cleaning between every stay, 24/7 guest communication, and City of Los Angeles Home-Sharing compliance.
This matters when you search, because search results mix the two constantly. If you look up short-term rental companies in Los Angeles you will get long-term property managers in the results, and several of them do not handle short-term rentals at all. Before you take a call, ask one question: how many short-term rental bookings did you process last year? The answer separates the two categories immediately.
Can I hire a company to manage my Airbnb without giving up control?expand_more
Yes, and the terms vary more than most owners expect, so read them. The questions worth asking are: is the agreement month-to-month or a fixed term, how much notice does cancellation require, can you block your own dates whenever you want, and do you approve bookings above a certain value or does the manager decide.
Our owners choose their level of involvement. Some want fully hands-off management and only hear from us when something needs a decision. Others approve bookings above a threshold or block personal-use dates regularly through the owner portal. Neither is the wrong answer, but you should know which one you are signing up for before you sign.
Is Airbnb still profitable in Los Angeles?expand_more
For well-run properties, yes, and this was never not profitable, though the gap between good and average operators has widened. AirROI puts the Los Angeles market average occupancy at 42.7% for the year ending May 2026. Our own booking data puts our portfolio at roughly 74%, about 30 points above that market average. The market number includes a long tail of poorly managed and part-time listings, which is exactly the point: the LA average is not a ceiling, it is a reflection of how many listings are run casually.
What has changed is that casual hosting no longer works well here. Permit compliance is enforced, guests compare listings against hotel-grade expectations, and pricing has to move with demand rather than sitting static. The properties struggling in Los Angeles are usually not struggling because of the market.
We refresh this page quarterly. Every fee, market count and review figure here was verified live on September 10, 2026, and the homepage screenshots were captured the same day at an identical window size. The one exception is The Maimon Group, whose homepage hero is a looping video: a re-capture only changes which frame lands, so we kept the earlier one and label it with its own date. Review counts in particular move week to week, so treat them as accurate to the pull date rather than to today.
If you find something on this page that is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will correct it. That includes the companies listed here.
If this page did its job, you now know what to ask any manager on it. If you want to run those questions past us, we will give you straight answers about your specific property: what we think it can earn, what we would charge, what we would change first, and whether we think we are the right fit. Sometimes we are not, and we will tell you that too.
Method: all competitor figures on this page were taken from each company's own public website and Google Business Profile on September 10, 2026. Google ratings were pulled for every company on the same day so the comparison is like for like. Each screenshot is that company's homepage, captured the same day at an identical 1440 by 900 window, with no cropping beyond a uniform resize. Claims a company makes about itself that we could not independently verify are attributed to that company in the text. This page is reviewed and refreshed quarterly. Last updated September 10, 2026.
