Data report — Mid-Year 2026

Accra Short-Term Rental Market Report: Mid-Year 2026

Real performance data from 100+ professionally managed Accra units — occupancy, rates, seasonality, channel mix, and the neighborhood league table. Published quarterly by Sky Suites, computed straight from our property-management system.

12,786guest nights, H1 2026
80%occupancy while listed vs 43% market
+62%booked nights, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026
$938kgross bookings, H1 2026
Why this report exists

Proprietary data from 100+ managed units, published openly

Most Accra market commentary is recycled guesswork. This report is computed directly from the Sky Suites property-management system — every confirmed booking across our Accra portfolio — combined with public market benchmarks from AirDNA (4,823 active listings, 43% average occupancy, Market Score 91/100). We publish it because owners make better decisions with real numbers, and because we can: no other operator in Accra has this sample size.

Seasonality

Twelve months of real revenue, month by month

Gross bookings across the portfolio, July 2025 – June 2026. December — Detty December — remains the market's super-peak at roughly 2.1x July revenue, but note the floor is rising: booked nights grew 62% across the twelve months (1,436 nights in July 2025 to 2,332 in June 2026).

Neighborhood league table

Where the money actually is, H1 2026

AreaUnits in sampleOccupancyADRGross revenue / unit / month
Airport Residential4488%$79$2,114
Osu1382%$48$1,180
Labone1263%$65$1,232
Dzorwulu1155%$57$940

Ridge, Cantonments, and East Legon are excluded from the table: sample sizes are small or the inventory was onboarded mid-period, making H1 averages unrepresentative. Airport Residential's 88% area occupancy is more than double the 43% Accra market average — proximity to Kotoka International Airport plus corporate demand keeps it the deepest short-stay market in the city. Top-decile Sky Suites units ran at 96%+ occupancy over the last twelve months.

Demand composition

Where bookings come from

Channel mix by revenue

Airbnb 42% · Direct network 31% · Booking.com 21% · Expedia 6%. The 31% direct share — embassies, corporates, NGOs, and 1,000+ agents — is the structural edge: those nights carry no OTA commission and they cushion any single platform's algorithm changes.

Guest origin

Of bookings with recorded nationality: Ghana leads, followed by the United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Germany, the Netherlands, France, and Cote d'Ivoire. Diaspora and business demand from the US and UK is the fastest-appreciating segment — it books longer stays at higher rates.

What it means for owners

Occupancy is won on operations, not listing photos alone: the gap between the 43% market average and 88% in our strongest corridor is pricing discipline, response speed, review velocity, and direct demand no individual host can replicate alone.

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Methodology and disclaimers. Portfolio figures computed from confirmed, non-cancelled reservations in Sky Suites' property-management system for units in Accra, January 1 – June 30, 2026 (12-month series: July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026). Occupancy is measured per listing only across the days it was live on our system, so newly onboarded units are not penalized for months before launch; established units (live since before January) run a median 88%. Long-stay units managed outside the platform are excluded entirely, which understates true portfolio performance. Revenue is gross bookings in USD before platform commissions, management fees, and operating costs. All-time, Sky Suites has generated more than $2.6 million in confirmed bookings for property owners across Accra and Dubai. Market benchmarks from public AirDNA data. Figures describe the Sky Suites portfolio, not the Accra market as a whole; individual unit results vary. This report is information, not financial advice.

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