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A search engine that pulls listings from Flatio, HousingAnywhere, Nestpick and Airbnb/Vrbo monthly sections into one European mid-term rental index.
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What to build
MVP
A web app that scrapes/partners with the major platforms' APIs for 5-6 major European cities and lets users filter by city, price and stay length in one search bar.
Why it can be better
Solves the fragmentation problem where renters must juggle Flatio, Wunderflats, HousingAnywhere and Airbnb monthly sections separately with no unified inventory.
Revenue model
Affiliate commission on bookings routed to partner platforms, similar to how HomeToGo operates as a search engine.
Target user
Digital nomads and relocating professionals searching for 1-3 month furnished stays across multiple European cities.
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Context
The opportunity this answers
Build a cross-platform mid-term rental search and verification layer that flags genuine below-tourist-rate furnished listings for renters relocating across European cities.
Why now
Regulatory crackdowns on short-term rentals across European cities are actively pushing landlords and institutional investors to relabel stock as mid-term, creating a fast-growing but unverified supply just as dedicated platforms like Flatio, Wunderflats and HousingAnywhere are scaling city coverage, meaning the market has enough real inventory and enough abusive relabeling happening simultaneously that a verification and aggregation layer is now buildable and needed, whereas a year or two ago the segment was too thin to support it.
