Financing a Jamestown Rental Without a Little Compton Mash

Jacob Mishalanie
15 hours ago
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Most Jamestown listings get marketed as a generic Narragansett Bay stay. That pitch could describe a dozen other towns, and it wastes what actually sets Town of Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island apart. Guests who typed Jamestown are looking for Beavertail Lighthouse, Fort Wetherill State Park, East Ferry, Mackerel Cove — not Harpswell, and not Little Compton. 92 active listings sit on this extract. Write the town you can actually walk. Keep the listing specific. A vague water caption loses the booking.

Typical listings here earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, AirROI trailing twelve months through July 2026. The average night was $440. Occupancy was 31.4 percent. Revenue per available night was $153. Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Active supply moved 9.5 percent. Do not average in Harpswell at $29,110 on 189 listings. That is a different town. Leave Little Compton as a different market. Do not mix those towns. Treat this as a small sample, not a blended coast.

The three strongest months are August, June, and September. August is the busiest. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York, then Boston. Typical stay is 4.9 nights, booked about 101 days ahead. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file STAY Newport holds still show up in this sample.

Jamestown is Conanicut Island in Narragansett Bay, not a Newport listing and not a Little Compton mash. Photograph Beavertail Lighthouse, Fort Wetherill, East Ferry, and Mackerel Cove. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200 and confirm the live host registration before you advertise. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals. Also register with Rhode Island DBR. Do not average Harpswell at $29,110 or Little Compton at $31,744 into this town year.

DSCR on Jamestown Twenty-Nine Thousand

That heading is the useful way to read Jamestown, not a dashboard label. Guests come for Beavertail Lighthouse. Say that in the listing. Do not bury it under a generic Narragansett Bay caption. Do not write Harpswell copy onto a Jamestown address. Do not use Little Compton as if it were this occupancy. Be specific about the walk. A vague caption loses the guest who typed this town. Keep the other town out of the title.

Read more in Who Books a Jamestown Rental and Buying a Jamestown Rental. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Supply moved 9.5 percent. Keep Little Compton ($31,744 a year) on its own line. A 56.5-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph Beavertail Lighthouse. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

Do Not Mint a Little Compton Year for the Note

That heading is the useful way to read Jamestown, not a dashboard label. Guests come for Fort Wetherill State Park. Say that in the listing. Do not bury it under a generic Narragansett Bay caption. Do not write Harpswell copy onto a Jamestown address. Do not use Little Compton as if it were this occupancy. Be specific about the walk. A vague caption loses the guest who typed this town. Keep the other town out of the title.

Read more in Buying a Jamestown Rental and Jamestown Tourism Data. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Supply moved 9.5 percent. Keep Little Compton ($31,744 a year) on its own line. A 56.5-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph Fort Wetherill State Park. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

City Desks Travel With the Deed

That heading is the useful way to read Jamestown, not a dashboard label. Guests come for East Ferry. Say that in the listing. Do not bury it under a generic Narragansett Bay caption. Do not write Harpswell copy onto a Jamestown address. Do not use Little Compton as if it were this occupancy. Be specific about the walk. A vague caption loses the guest who typed this town. Keep the other town out of the title.

Read more in Jamestown Tourism Data and Complete Visitor's Guide to Jamestown — Jamestown Rhode Island Pin. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Supply moved 9.5 percent. Keep Little Compton ($31,744 a year) on its own line. A 56.5-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph East Ferry. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

92 Cards Is Part of the File

That heading is the useful way to read Jamestown, not a dashboard label. Guests come for Mackerel Cove. Say that in the listing. Do not bury it under a generic Narragansett Bay caption. Do not write Harpswell copy onto a Jamestown address. Do not use Little Compton as if it were this occupancy. Be specific about the walk. A vague caption loses the guest who typed this town. Keep the other town out of the title.

Read more in Complete Visitor's Guide to Jamestown — Jamestown Rhode Island Pin and Jamestown STR Report 2026. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Supply moved 9.5 percent. Keep Little Compton ($31,744 a year) on its own line. A 56.5-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph Mackerel Cove. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

Visitor Spend Is Not Debt Service

Read more in Jamestown STR Report 2026 and Market a Jamestown Stay. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Do Not Steal Thirty-Plus as Occupancy

Read more in Market a Jamestown Stay and Jamestown STR Rules. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Supply moved 9.5 percent. Keep Little Compton ($31,744 a year) on its own line. A 56.5-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph Fort Wetherill State Park. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

Rhode Island DSCR Facts Only

Read more in Jamestown STR Rules and Jamestown Shoulder. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Supply moved 9.5 percent. Keep Little Compton ($31,744 a year) on its own line. A 56.5-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph East Ferry. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

What a Lender Packet Should Carry

Read more in Jamestown Shoulder and Jamestown Remote Stays. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Supply moved 9.5 percent. Keep Little Compton ($31,744 a year) on its own line. A 56.5-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph Mackerel Cove. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year. Cite the city count. Leave AirROI Low off the packet. Watch sample on this year. Confirm the driveway.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a typical Jamestown STR year on this extract?

AirROI lists about $29,691 from 92 listings for August 2025 through July 2026, updated 2026-08-08. Average night was $440, occupancy was 31.4 percent, and year over year was down 9.6 percent. Treat this as a small-sample figure specific to Jamestown — don't blend it with Harpswell's $29,110 or Little Compton's $31,744.

Can I average Harpswell into this year?

No. Harpswell published $29,110 from 189 listings, a separate Maine market with its own extract. Cite Jamestown's $29,691 from its own 92 listings only, and confirm current registration status directly before advertising a Jamestown address with another town's numbers.

Which months are strongest in Jamestown?

August, June, and September are the three strongest months, with August the busiest and January the slowest. Occupancy for the year sits at 31.4 percent against the $29,691 typical-year figure from 92 listings. Treat any single month's swing carefully given the sample size.

Where do guests come from?

New York is the top origin, followed by Boston. Typical stay is 4.9 nights with about 101 days of lead time, and Superhost share sits at 52.2 percent. Serve the guest who actually typed Jamestown rather than a generic Narragansett Bay pitch.

Does a low-regulation label mean there is no local permit?

No — that label reflects a data scrape, not a confirmed rule set. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200; Jamestown requires an annual host registration around $125 plus per-bedroom fees, and hosts should also register with the RI Department of Business Regulation. Newport is a separate municipality, and Harpswell and Little Compton are separate markets that shouldn't be folded into this figure.

Is a 30-night minimum the same as occupancy?

No. About 56.5 percent of listings, 52 of them, use a 30-night minimum stay filter. That's a platform setting, not a measure of how full the calendar runs — occupancy for the year is 31.4 percent, with a typical stay of 4.9 nights.

What should a buyer packet carry?

Cite $29,691 from 92 listings, the strongest months of August, June, and September, January as the slowest, New York as the top guest origin, a 4.9-night typical stay with 101 days of lead time, and the Town Hall number, 401-423-7200. Label Harpswell's $29,110 and Little Compton's $31,744 separately rather than averaging them in.

Is Little Compton the same market as Jamestown?

No. Little Compton published $31,744 from 71 listings, a separate Rhode Island market with its own extract. Jamestown's figure is $29,691 from 92 listings, with January as its slowest month. Confirm current registration rules at 401-423-7200 before advertising either town's numbers as the other's.

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Jamestown gets pitched as a generic Narragansett Bay stay that could describe several island towns, and guests searching for Beavertail Lighthouse or East Ferry scroll past a listing that never names them.

Crest & Cove writes Jamestown listings around Beavertail Lighthouse, Fort Wetherill, and Mackerel Cove, not a blended bay caption borrowed from another town.

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