Client case studyCasago YellowstoneWest Yellowstone & Island Park
18 unitsIdaho & MontanaClient since February 2023
Summer & Shoulder Season · 2026

The market went backwards. This portfolio went up 28%.

West Yellowstone had a hard summer. The bedroom-matched market added supply, sold fewer nights, and finished with revenue per available night down 10.7%. Casago Yellowstone grew 27.6% over the same three months, and its September-to-December book has since more than doubled.

+27.6%
Summer RevPAR · total revenue per available room night
market -10.7%
+20.4%
Summer RentPAR · rent per available room night
market -9.5%
+12.2 pts
Summer occupancy
market -9.6 pts
+116%
Shoulder season book · Sep to Dec, on the books at the same point last year
The season

A soft summer for the market, a strong one here.

The comp set around this portfolio grew from 50 properties to 53 and sold fewer nights than the year before. More supply, less demand. Against that, Casago Yellowstone put up gains on every measure that matters, and it did it by filling the calendar rather than by pushing rate.

RentPAR · Yellowstone
+20.4%
RentPAR · market
-9.5%
RevPAR · Yellowstone
+27.6%
RevPAR · market
-10.7%
Occupancy · Yellowstone
+12.2 pts
Occupancy · market
-9.6 pts
Occupancy is the clearest read. The market lost 9.6 points of occupancy while this portfolio gained 12.2, finishing at 55.3% against a market at 41.9%. That is a swing of more than 21 points in relative terms, in a summer where most operators nearby were losing ground.

13-home same-store cohort, May 1 to July 31, 2026 vs 2025, transient stays only. Market is Key Data comp sets matched to each unit's own bedroom count. Growth rates are compared rather than absolute levels, because bedroom count alone does not account for differences in size, location and condition between a portfolio and its comp set.

The off-season

Two months that had never sold are now on the books.

Yellowstone's west gate empties when the park season ends, and this portfolio historically went quiet with it. Measured at the same point in the booking cycle, September through December is now carrying $104,025 against $48,068 a year ago.

Sep 2026
$75,266
Sep 2025
$44,156
Oct 2026
$19,423
Oct 2025
$3,912
Nov 2026
$1,346
Nov 2025
$0
Dec 2026
$7,990
Dec 2025
$0
September carries the largest dollar gain and October the largest proportional one. November and December are the clearest signal: a year ago this portfolio had not sold a single transient night in either month by this date. It now holds $9,336 across the two, and off-season occupancy has gone from 5.5% to 14.7%.

Both years cut at August 20, so this compares what was actually sold by that date last year rather than a finished season. Forward market benchmarks are projections rather than settled results, so no market comparison is drawn here.

The work

What Pacer changed.

Strategy

Filled the calendar, held the value

+146 summer nights

In a market losing occupancy, the portfolio sold 146 more summer nights than the year before. Volume carried the season rather than rate, which is what works when the demand pool itself is shrinking.

Off-season

Shoulder months got their own plan

Priced to convert

September through December were priced against what would actually book, rather than inheriting a peak-season floor that had been leaving October nearly empty and November unsold entirely.

Scale

Managed home by home

13 homes, individually

At this size a single property moves the whole book, so pricing decisions are made per home and per date rather than by portfolio-wide rule.

Method

How these numbers were produced.

Same-store, transient only

13 homes managed on or before Aug 20 2025 and still managed today. Stays of 28 nights or more are excluded from both years. One property listed three separate ways is excluded, since those listings share availability and would triple count it.

Two measures

RentPAR is rent per available room night. RevPAR is rent plus fees per available room night. Both are reported against the same market on the same basis.

Matched booking cycle

Summer is settled and measured in full. The September to December figures are measured on the books as of August 20 in each year, so this year's partial book is compared against what last year had actually sold by the same date.

What is your season actually worth?

Pacer is a preferred revenue management partner to the Casago franchise network. We will benchmark your portfolio against bedroom-matched market performance and show you what is recoverable, before you make any commitment.

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