The broadcast archive.
The population rebound, and monthly stays as the front door to the city.
In conversation with Katie Chambers on why the recovery is running through residents first: furnished monthly stays have become how people arrive in the city, and how they come back to it. The number the discussion was built on: 69.4 per cent of the portfolio’s Q2 nights were stays of 29 nights or longer, drawn from the inaugural First Class UAE Short-Term Rental Index.
Q2 for the UAE’s short-term rentals, inside the week’s news.
With Tala Michel Issa and Tom Evans on the Arabian Business weekly news podcast, walking through what the quarter did to short-term rental owners: softer bookings, sharper competition, and guests deciding later than ever. The First Class UAE Short-Term Rental Index supplied the numbers, placed in the same rundown as the region’s biggest stories, which is where market data belongs.
Listen on Apple Podcasts → the Index segment from 6:12
Introducing the First Class UAE Short-Term Rental Index.
The first broadcast conversation on the inaugural First Class UAE Short-Term Rental Index, Q2 2026, with Brandy Scott: what a hard quarter actually showed. Market occupancy averaged 48 per cent while the First Class portfolio held 87, the gap that professional management opened when demand shifted.
Flexible living surges as residents replace tourists.
With Tim Elliott, on the structural shift showing up in our live booking data: traditional holiday bookings falling away while flexible monthly stays climb across the portfolio. The conversation covers what that recalibration does to an operator’s model, and why we kept expanding through it.
