Who Books a Little Compton Rental: New York, Not Lubec

Thomas Garner
14 hours ago
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Most Little Compton listings get marketed as a generic Sakonnet River stay. That pitch could describe a dozen other towns, and it wastes what actually sets Town of Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island apart. Guests who typed Little Compton are looking for South Shore Beach, Sakonnet Point, the Commons, Wilbor House — not Jamestown, and not Lubec. 71 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 $31,744 last year from 71 active rentals, AirROI trailing twelve months through July 2026. The average night was $442. Occupancy was 38.3 percent. Revenue per available night was $185. Year over year is minus 15.1 percent. Active supply moved 0.0 percent. Do not average in Jamestown at $29,691 on 92 listings. That is a different town. Leave Lubec 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 July. August is the busiest. February is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York, then Boston. Typical stay is 5.7 nights, booked about 83 days ahead. Call Town Clerk at 401-635-4400. Town STR registration $250 a year, $125 with homestead. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Tiverton is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file Evolve holds still show up in this sample.

Little Compton is a Sakonnet farm town on the Rhode Island coast, not a Tiverton listing and not a Jamestown mash. Photograph South Shore Beach, Sakonnet Point, the Commons, and Wilbor House. Call the Town Clerk at 401-635-4400. Town STR registration is $250 a year, $125 with homestead. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Typical listings earned about $31,744 last year from 71 active rentals. Do not average Jamestown at $29,691 or Lubec at $21,152 into this town year.

August Is the Busiest Month

That heading is the useful way to read Little Compton, not a dashboard label. Guests come for South Shore Beach. Say that in the listing. Do not bury it under a generic Sakonnet River caption. Do not write Jamestown copy onto a Little Compton address. Do not use Lubec 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 Little Compton Rental and Little Compton Tourism Data. Typical listings earned about $31,744 last year from 71 active rentals, at $442 a night and 38.3 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. February is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Clerk at 401-635-4400. Town STR registration $250 a year, $125 with homestead. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Tiverton is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 15.1 percent. Supply moved 0.0 percent. Keep Lubec ($21,152 a year) on its own line. A 39.4-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph South Shore Beach. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

July Is Still One of the Three Strongest Months

That heading is the useful way to read Little Compton, not a dashboard label. Guests come for Sakonnet Point. Say that in the listing. Do not bury it under a generic Sakonnet River caption. Do not write Jamestown copy onto a Little Compton address. Do not use Lubec 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 Little Compton Tourism Data and Complete Visitor's Guide to Little Compton — Little Compton Rhode Isla. Typical listings earned about $31,744 last year from 71 active rentals, at $442 a night and 38.3 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. February is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Clerk at 401-635-4400. Town STR registration $250 a year, $125 with homestead. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Tiverton is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 15.1 percent. Supply moved 0.0 percent. Keep Lubec ($21,152 a year) on its own line. A 39.4-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph Sakonnet Point. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

Most Guests Arrive from New York

That heading is the useful way to read Little Compton, not a dashboard label. Guests come for the Commons. Say that in the listing. Do not bury it under a generic Sakonnet River caption. Do not write Jamestown copy onto a Little Compton address. Do not use Lubec 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 Little Compton — Little Compton Rhode Isla and What It Costs to Start a Legal Little Compton STR Stay. Typical listings earned about $31,744 last year from 71 active rentals, at $442 a night and 38.3 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. February is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Clerk at 401-635-4400. Town STR registration $250 a year, $125 with homestead. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Tiverton is another municipality.

Year over year is minus 15.1 percent. Supply moved 0.0 percent. Keep Lubec ($21,152 a year) on its own line. A 39.4-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph the Commons. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

Boston Is a Secondary Origin, Not the Listing Pitch

That heading is the useful way to read Little Compton, not a dashboard label. Guests come for Wilbor House. Say that in the listing. Do not bury it under a generic Sakonnet River caption. Do not write Jamestown copy onto a Little Compton address. Do not use Lubec 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 What It Costs to Start a Legal Little Compton STR Stay and Little Compton STR Report 2026. Typical listings earned about $31,744 last year from 71 active rentals, at $442 a night and 38.3 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. February is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Clerk at 401-635-4400. Town STR registration $250 a year, $125 with homestead. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Tiverton is another municipality.

Year over year is minus 15.1 percent. Supply moved 0.0 percent. Keep Lubec ($21,152 a year) on its own line. A 39.4-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph Wilbor House. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

Larger Homes Are Common in Little Compton

Read more in Little Compton STR Report 2026 and Market a Little Compton Stay. Typical listings earned about $31,744 last year from 71 active rentals, at $442 a night and 38.3 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. February is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Clerk at 401-635-4400. Town STR registration $250 a year, $125 with homestead. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Tiverton is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Photos Should Match the Trip Guests Actually Book

Read more in Market a Little Compton Stay and Little Compton STR Rules. Typical listings earned about $31,744 last year from 71 active rentals, at $442 a night and 38.3 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. February is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Clerk at 401-635-4400. Town STR registration $250 a year, $125 with homestead. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Tiverton is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 15.1 percent. Supply moved 0.0 percent. Keep Lubec ($21,152 a year) on its own line. A 39.4-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph Sakonnet Point. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

Lubec Attracts a Different Guest

Read more in Little Compton STR Rules and Little Compton Shoulder. Typical listings earned about $31,744 last year from 71 active rentals, at $442 a night and 38.3 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. February is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Clerk at 401-635-4400. Town STR registration $250 a year, $125 with homestead. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Tiverton is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 15.1 percent. Supply moved 0.0 percent. Keep Lubec ($21,152 a year) on its own line. A 39.4-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph the Commons. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

Who This Market Fits

Read more in Little Compton Shoulder and Little Compton Remote Stays. Typical listings earned about $31,744 last year from 71 active rentals, at $442 a night and 38.3 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. February is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Clerk at 401-635-4400. Town STR registration $250 a year, $125 with homestead. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Tiverton is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 15.1 percent. Supply moved 0.0 percent. Keep Lubec ($21,152 a year) on its own line. A 39.4-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph Wilbor House. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a typical Little Compton STR year on this extract?

AirROI lists about $31,744 in typical annual revenue from 71 listings for August 2025 through July 2026, updated 2026-08-08. The average night was $442 and occupancy was 38.3 percent, with year over year down 15.1 percent. Treat this as a small sample given the listing count, and don't average it with the Jamestown or Lubec figures.

Can I average Jamestown into this year?

No. Jamestown published about $29,691 from 92 listings on its own extract. Those two markets don't cancel into one Sakonnet River number — cite $31,744 from 71 Little Compton listings only, and confirm current permit details before you advertise using either figure.

Which months are strongest in Little Compton?

August, June, and July are the three strongest months, with August the busiest and February the slowest. Occupancy for the year runs 38.3 percent against a typical annual figure of $31,744 from 71 listings — keep this figure specific to Little Compton.

Where do guests come from?

New York is the top origin, followed by Boston. Typical stays run 5.7 nights, booked about 83 days ahead, with a 36.6 percent superhost share. Occupancy is 38.3 percent against a typical year of $31,744 — serve the guest who actually typed Little Compton rather than a blended Sakonnet River pitch.

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

No, that label reflects a listings scrape rather than the live permit file. Call the Little Compton Town Clerk at 401-635-4400 to confirm the town STR registration, which runs about $250 a year ($125 with homestead); hosts must also register with the RI Department of Business Regulation. Tiverton is a separate municipality with its own rules.

Is a 30-night minimum the same as occupancy?

No. About 39.4 percent of listings, 28 of them, carry a 30-night minimum — that's a platform setting, not a measure of how full the property runs. Little Compton's real typical stay is 5.7 nights against 38.3 percent occupancy.

What should a buyer packet carry?

Cite $31,744 from 71 listings, the August-June-July peak with February as the slow month, New York as the top origin, a 5.7-night stay booked about 83 days out, and the Town Clerk at 401-635-4400. Label Jamestown ($29,691) and Lubec ($21,152) separately — don't average those figures into the Little Compton number.

Is Lubec the same market as Little Compton?

No. Lubec published about $21,152 from 65 listings on its own extract. Keep that figure on its own line — Little Compton's number is $31,744 from 71 listings, with February as its slowest month. Confirm current permit details for each market separately at the Town Clerk, 401-635-4400, before advertising one as the other.

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