$55,306 Year and an 850 Cap: Stowe, VT STR Report 2026
Updated: Aug 27
Stowe, Vermont now has one extract and one clerk. AirROI, updated August 8, 2026 for the August 2025 through July 2026 window, pins the mean year at $55,306 on 890 listings. ADR is $555, and occupancy is 37.9 percent. RevPAR is $209, and monthly mean is $4,609. Monthly median is $4,539, and that is the watch year. A leftover $43k to $76k band is wrong, and so is a $450 to $500 ADR with 44 to 46 percent occupancy. Throw those leftover ranks out before you price February.
The calendar is ski winter, and peak three months are February, January, and December. The locked hole is May, inside a soft April through June trough. Peak month prints about $10,573 at 60.3 percent occupancy and a $643 ADR. Softest month prints about $3,051 at 23.5 percent and a $483 ADR. Lead time is 60 days, and typical stay is 4.2 nights. Revenue is up 2.4 percent year over year, and supply is up 7.0 percent. Foliage is real. It is not the money season on this file.
The desk changed on July 22, 2026 when the Town of Stowe adopted the ordinance Town Clerk Penny Davis recorded the next day. Eight hundred fifty licenses begin September 15. Renewals after January 1, 2027 can sit above the cap. New listings wait on attrition or a twenty license lottery for 2027-28 and 2028-29 only if no slots exist. AirROI still stamps regulation Low, and that badge is stale. Keep the extract and the ordinance in one file so nobody invents a transferable listings.
The $55,306 year is the extract, not leftover $43-76k
AirROI is the published market year because it names a sample and a dated window. The n is 890 listings, not a guess from a leftover rank file. The mean year is $55,306. Monthly mean is $4,609 and monthly median is $4,539. ADR is $555, and occupancy is 37.9 percent. RevPAR is $209, and those seven figures travel together. A leftover file that quoted $43k to $76k was a range across older extracts, and it is not this August 2025 through July 2026 window. Do not midpoint that leftover band.
Occupancy at 37.9 percent is a ski town with a real May hole, not a 70 percent resort story someone imported from another range. ADR at $555 is high enough that a weak winter week still prints money, and high enough that a vacant May week still hurts the year. Superhost share is 74.7 percent, and entire home share is 93 percent. Houses are 55.1 percent of the mix. Forty-seven percent of listings already set a 30 night minimum. That last figure is a listing gate, not proof that April through June is full.
Year over year revenue is up 2.4 percent while supply is up 7.0 percent. That is a town adding doors faster than dollars, then closing new listings on September 15. Professional management sits at 34.2 percent, which is a bench, not a monopoly. Use $55,306, $555, and 37.9 percent when you talk to a lender, a partner, or a buyer who arrived with leftover ranks.finance fileshould open on those three numbers, not on a midpoint of a dead band.
February, January, and December are the money months
Money months on this market sample are February, January, and December, in that order as AirROI ranks them. That is ski winter on Mansfield and Spruce. It is not leftover foliage-first marketing copied from a visitor pamphlet. Peak month sits near $10,573, 60.3 percent occupancy, and a $643 ADR. If you still price holiday weeks like a pretty October weekend, you are leaving the year on the table. Guests book this cell on a 60 day lead and they stay 4.2 nights. Keep the night ski lights and the village walk after a dump.
May is the locked hole on this file. April and June sit in the same trough and they do not get a second foliage story. The softest print is about $3,051 at 23.5 percent occupancy and a $483 ADR. Stick season in November is real and it is not the locked low. Leave out unverified a weekly cut or a monthly markdown to fill those weeks. Drop ski minimums and Keep mud without apology, and the.May shoulder filewalks that calendar in full.
Foliage still books rooms and it still fills Main Street on a gold weekend. Trapp still draws a Nordic week, and summer still fills a recreation path house. None of that reorders AirROI peak three. If a photographer arrives in gold maples and never comes back for a February dawn on Mansfield, the tile will sell the wrong month to the guest who actually pays $643. Keep a winter set, a mud set, and a green set. Price February like February. Price May like May, and keep the ski minimum out of the hole.
890 listings and a 34 percent manager bench
The sample is 890 listings. That is the n for every percentage in this report, including the ones brokers like to round. Entire homes are 93 percent, and houses are 55.1 percent. Superhosts are 74.7 percent, and professionally managed listings are 34.2 percent. That last number is why Stowe feels heavier than a thinner Vermont desk. One in three tiles already has a shop behind it. The remaining share is independents, family books, and owners who still answer the inbox themselves. Do not flatten that mix into a resort monopoly or a village of only owner operators.
The AirROI bench that actually prints on this market sample is not a franchise invented for a marketing brief. Stowe Mountain Rentals sits on about 60 doors, and stowe Resort Homes sits on about 44. Heirloom sits on about 13, and evolve sits on about 8. Hollow and Hill is on the same named list. Rebecca and Blake's 88 doors are a host book, not a clerk count and not a license tally. Vacasa is not the lead desk on this pull. If a packet still leads with Vacasa or Casago as the fact of Stowe, the packet is writing a different town.
Thirty-four percent managed does not mean you cannot compete on Mountain Road or in the village. It means the guest already saw a polished catalog before they saw your tile. Photography, honest drive time, and a February rate beat a generic ski condo. If your photos are three winters old, you are not in the same auction as those shops. Keep the house if you can run the inbox. Hire the tile if you cannot keep the photos current.agency caseis about that split, not about handing over the lock.
What the July 22 ordinance does to this file
The clerk is the Town of Stowe Short-Term Rental Ordinance, adopted July 22, 2026 and recorded July 23 by Town Clerk Penny Davis. AirROI Low is not the clerk and should not be taught as one. Eight hundred fifty licenses begin September 15, 2026. The license year runs May 1 through April 30. As of January 1, 2027, holders of unexpired valid licenses may renew even if the town is still over 850. If the valid count stays over the cap, that year has no new listings and no lottery forms.
The Town Manager counts available slots by May 31. Owners without a valid license as of June 1 file a lottery form from June 1 through June 30. The draw sits on or near July 15. Winners file a full registration by August 1, or within 14 days after notice. If no slots exist for 2027-28 and 2028-29, the town shall make twenty new licenses available through the lottery those two years. That number is twenty, and leftover twenty-five is the wrong clerk note.
Licenses do not transfer on an arms-length sale. Family, trust, divorce, and death paths are the exceptions written in the ordinance, and they have a 30 day filing clock. A homestead can still license two units on the primary residence even when the town is over 850.cap guideand thehomestead filecarry those desks. This report only needs you to stop underwriting a Stowe year as if the listings rode with the deed. A closing memo that assumes transfer is not a Stowe memo this week either.
Village, Mountain Road, and Mansfield are different pins
Stowe is one town and at least three guest searches that do not share a driveway. Village guests want Main Street, the path, and a walk to dinner without moving the car. Mountain Road guests want drive time to the lifts and a plow that actually arrives. Mansfield is the mountain, not the inn and not the village green. If the tile says walkable village and the driveway is a Mountain Road lot, the guest will Keep the review you earned. Pick the published market year the driveway has, and guests already know which published market year they typed. The map does not forgive a blend ever.
Manager density is thicker toward the mountain. That is where Stowe Mountain Rentals and Stowe Resort Homes already own a large share of the search tile. A village house can still win on walk and shops. A mountain house wins on minutes, not on a blend map published market year that pretends both are true. Do not sell both from one driveway, and the.village versus Mountain Road fileis the split. Thevisitor guideis the walk you can actually offer.
Waterbury, Cambridge, Morrisville, and Smugglers' Notch are not downtown Stowe and they are not a village stroll. Do not dress them as Main Street. Do not sell a Waterbury parcel as a walk to the current. Guests compare minutes on the same night they compare three Mountain Road catalogs. They also compare honesty. A clean published market year beats a pretty lie, and a blend published market year costs February more than it costs a photo credit. Keep the minutes you can actually drive on a Saturday morning in February.
Visitor spend is not this year
Vermont visitors spent $4.2 billion in 2024. That is statewide spend from VDTM and Tourism Economics, and it covers the whole state, not Lamoille County alone. Sixteen million visitors is the same statewide file, and neither figure is a Stowe host year. Do not divide $4.2 billion by 890 listings. Do not Keep a Stowe-only visitor spend line this extract does not have. Leftover visitor-center October counts are not the published market year either. That billion is the state economy, and it is not your T12.
The $55,306 year is what listings in this sample earned across the AirROI window. The $4.2 billion figure is what guests spent across Vermont on lodging, meals, lifts, shops, and the rest of a trip. Those are different denominators and different desks. A broker memo that treats state spend as host revenue is selling a press release. Quote the state figure as context if you must. Then return to ADR, occupancy, and the cap. A guest dinner in Burlington does not land in your Stowe night. Keep the press release off the rent roll this week.
Hosts who blend the two numbers end up promising a year the house cannot print on 37.9 percent occupancy. Lenders who blend them underwrite a note the winter can carry only if February behaves.tourism filekeeps VDTM on one side of the page and AirROI on the other. Use that split in every packet you send this week, including the one that still opens on leftover ranks. If a listing still quotes state spend as the house year, rewrite the listing before you send it.
Who this report will not average in
This file will not fold Quechee into Stowe, and quechee lives with Woodstock. It is a different clerk, a different gorge, and a different cluster. Do not Keep Simon Pearce, Quechee Lakes, or Quechee Gorge as a Stowe amenity or as a walk from Main Street. Mad River and Waitsfield are a different desk too. Name them only as a different market, and keep the years as separate figures rather than blending them, the same way each town's clerk's office stays separate. Woodstock's clerk is not Stowe's clerk, and a gorge photo does not move a Mansfield night.
Do not dress Waterbury, Cambridge, Morrisville, or Smugglers' Notch as downtown Stowe. Head Light is Cape Elizabeth and belongs to another cluster entirely. If a packet averages Stowe with Woodstock, send the packet back and ask for two desks.three-clerk compareexists so that blend stops here. This report stays inside the Town of Stowe. A Waterbury address is a Waterbury address even if the guest can see Mansfield on a clear day. Do not borrow another town's walk to thicken a thin Stowe tile.
This report will not invent Vacasa as the lead property manager. It will not teach AirROI Low as the ordinance. It will not midpoint leftover $43k to $76k. It will not move peak three onto foliage. It will not invent a 15 to 20 percent weekly or a 30 to 40 percent monthly. Those refusals are the quality bar for the rest of the cluster. If you need a refuse list, start there and keep it on the wall when you Keep copy. The leftover blend is how listings lose trust. Everything else is the extract plus the July 22 PDF.
What to do with a Stowe listing this week
If you already hold an unexpired Stowe license, treat April 30 as the line that can erase the listings and send you back through the cap. Renew on the May 1 through April 30 year. Put the registration number in the ads. Keep the 45-minute designated responsible person and the Knox Box live. Do not list a sale as if the buyer inherits the license. Point the buyer atthe purchase filebefore anyone writes an offer as an operating STR. Family transfer is the exception, not the listing headline.
If you do not hold a listings, call the Deckard portal and Assistant Town Manager Will Fricke at STR@stowevt.gov or before you underwrite a single winter night. Homestead is the resident door: two units on the house you live in, even over 850. Non-residents wait on attrition or the twenty-license lottery those two years if no slots exist. Price the house on $4,609 a month, not on leftover $76k. Do not shop sofas before you know whether a license exists.
Then fix the tile this week, not after the next foliage weekend. Name village or Mountain Road, and sell February before foliage. Stop dressing another Vermont town as this one. If the search tile still loses to Stowe Resort Homes on the same street, that is a.marketing job, not a reason to invent a new license. The extract is $55,306, and the clerk is 850. Work those two facts, and work them in that order. A stale tile on a scarce listings is a more expensive problem than a sofa.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the average Airbnb revenue in Stowe Vermont in 2026?
AirROI pins the mean Stowe year at $55,306 on 890 listings for August 2025 through July 2026. ADR is $555, occupancy is 37.9 percent, and monthly mean is $4,609. A leftover $43k to $76k band is the wrong file. Peak months are February, January, and December. AirROI, updated August 8, 2026 for the August 2025 through July 2026 window, pins the mean year at $55,306 on 890 listings.
Is Stowe occupancy really only 38 percent?
Occupancy is 37.9 percent with RevPAR at $209. That is a ski town with a locked May hole, not a 70 percent resort story. Peak month reaches about 60.3 percent, and softest month sits near 23.5 percent. Forty-seven percent of listings already set a 30 night minimum, which is a gate, not a filled spring.
Does Stowe have a short-term rental cap now?
The Town of Stowe adopted the ordinance on July 22, 2026. Eight hundred fifty licenses begin September 15. AirROI still stamps regulation Low, and that badge is stale. Renewals after January 1, 2027 can sit above the cap. New listings wait on attrition or a twenty-license lottery in 2027-28 and 2028-29 only if no slots exist.
Who are the biggest property managers in Stowe VT?
On the AirROI bench, Stowe Mountain Rentals sits on about 60 doors and Stowe Resort Homes on about 44. Hollow and Hill is named on the same list. Vacasa is not the lead desk on this pull. Professional management is 34.2 percent of 890 listings, not a monopoly. Stowe Mountain Rentals sits on about 60 doors.
When is high season for a Stowe Airbnb?
February, January, and December, in that order. Peak month prints about $10,573 at a $643 ADR. Foliage books rooms and it is not AirROI peak three. May is the locked hole at about $3,051 and 23.5 percent occupancy. April and June sit in the same trough. Do not price holiday weeks like a pretty October weekend.
Can I use Vermont $4.2 billion tourism spend to underwrite my Stowe listing?
The $4.2 billion figure is statewide 2024 visitor spend from VDTM and Tourism Economics. Sixteen million visitors is the same state file, and neither number is a Stowe host year. Do not divide $4.2 billion by 890, and budget 55,306, $555, and 37.9 percent. That is statewide spend from VDTM and Tourism Economics, and it covers the whole state, not Lamoille County alone.
Is Quechee part of the Stowe rental market?
Quechee lives with Woodstock. It is a different clerk and a different cluster. Do not Keep Quechee Gorge, Simon Pearce, or Quechee Lakes as a Stowe amenity. Mad River and Waitsfield are a different desk too. Keep those years separate from Stowe's $55,306 extract and Stowe's 850-license ordinance rather than averaging them together. Do not Keep Simon Pearce, Quechee Lakes, or Quechee Gorge as a Stowe amenity or as a walk from Main Street.
What should I do this week if I already have a Stowe STR listing?
Renew on the May 1 through April 30 year and treat April 30 as the line that can erase the listings. Put the registration number in the ads. Keep the 45-minute responsible person and Knox Box live. Do not sell the house as if the license transfers. Sell February before foliage, and name village or Mountain Road.
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