Unit 2 · Assessing Your Market · Lesson 2.4
Market dashboard listing map and comp sets
The listing map and comp sets section of a market dashboard is where a comp set moves from concept to construction. The map plots every listing in the market by location, price and size; the available listings table shows each candidate’s rates, occupancy, reviews and minimum stays, with filters to narrow the field; and the comp set views let you build, edit and reassess the sets you benchmark against.
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Start with location
Most guest journeys still start with the selection of a location, so a comp set starts with a defined geographic area. Sometimes local characteristics require a distinction a simple radius would miss, and the listing map is where you draw it. In a market dashboard from a dynamic pricing tool such as PriceLabs, the map plots the approximate position of every listing in the market, with the colour of each dot showing that listing’s average price over the next year and the size of each dot showing its number of bedrooms, so a single view shows where listings cluster, what they charge and how large they are.
The San Juan Islands make the point. The group consists of San Juan Island itself plus Orcas, Lopez and several smaller islands, and because access to any of them is by boat, ferry or seaplane, most travellers consider the entire group when planning a stay. For a comp set, the whole island group is usually the right area. But if you had a reason to focus on a single island, say Lopez only, a lasso selection drawn around it on the map restricts the view to the listings inside that shape, and the available listings beneath the map then show only those properties.
The limitation to keep in mind is that plotted locations are only approximate, and location, while important, is not everything to every traveller. It is still one of the first things to settle when building a comp set, because it defines the competitive environment your pricing strategy operates in.
The available listings table
Below the map, the listings and comp sets area offers three views: available listings, comp sets, and create a comp set. All three matter when you are creating a comp set or reassessing one you already have. Available listings shows only the listings that survive your filters, the bedroom category you selected and any area you drew on the map, and it is your first honest look at the candidate pool.
Each row carries the data needed to judge a candidate. The listing ID links straight through to the live Airbnb listing, so you can open it and see exactly what guests see. Alongside it sit the bedroom count, the star rating, the number of reviews, the listing’s price as an average over the next 360 days, an estimated occupancy based on the last 365 stay dates, estimated revenue, estimated active nights, the minimum stay, and how much dynamic pricing the listing is exercising. Note which way each number looks: price is a forward average across the coming year, while occupancy is measured over the stay dates already behind it, so a row mixes what a listing intends to charge with what it actually achieved.
Filter to a workable field
Every column can be filtered. You can hold candidates to a bedroom category, demand a rating of at least 4.6 or 4.8, or require 30 or 50 reviews before a listing makes the cut. How hard to squeeze depends on your market. If you are struggling to find more than 12 to 15 candidate listings, be more generous with the thresholds; in a market with hundreds of listings, apply as many filters as it takes to narrow the field to genuine competitors.
The table can also be downloaded as a CSV file for your own analysis. Either way, treat this view as a starting point. It shows you what is available out there; deciding which of those listings belong in your comp set comes next.
Managing and creating comp sets
The comp sets view is a snapshot of every comp set attached to the market dashboard, both the ones you have created and the ones PriceLabs creates by default, such as a professionally managed two-bedroom set. The options are deliberately few: view a set, edit it, or delete it. Plain as it is, this is the view you return to whenever you reassess whether an existing set still reflects your competition.
Create a comp set is where construction actually happens, and it presents exactly the same information as available listings. The only additions are the ability to name the set, select the listings that belong in it, and save it. That symmetry is the point: by the time you come to create a set, reading the available listings table has already done most of the work, and the final step simply records the competitors you have chosen.