530. Hosting Hotline: Should You Adjust Airbnb Fees in PriceLabs or Airbnb?
Thanks For Visiting
Airbnb Superhosts Annette Grant & Sarah Karakaian
4.9 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Airbnb’s host fee changes have left many hosts wondering where, and how, to make adjustments without breaking their pricing strategy.
In this Hosting Hotline episode, Sarah and Annette answer a question from Jenna Louise about whether management fee changes should be handled inside PriceLabs or directly through Airbnb or a PMS.
They walk through why your base rate must remain stable, why there’s no universal percentage that recaptures Airbnb’s new host fee, and what hosts should be tracking right now as platforms continue to evolve. If you’re trying to protect your margins without chasing hacks or distorting your data, this episode will help you make smarter, more controlled decisions.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Thanks for Visiting Podcast. |
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| 1:39.8 | Responding every single day. And today we have a question from Jenna Louise. And this was a question |
| 1:45.5 | on our host fee change update video, what smart Airbnb hosts are doing right now. And Jenna's |
| 1:52.7 | question was, first of all, she says, thank you so much for the video. Jenna, you're welcome. |
| 1:57.9 | I have a pricing set up. I have my pricing set up through price labs. Would you still |
| 2:02.3 | recommend changing the management fee through Airbnb or are all changes to be made via price |
| 2:10.1 | labs? Thank you. Okay, so what she's in the video, we share that one way you can recoup the 15.5% Airbnb host fee is via a |
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