Sisters, Oregon Short-Term Rental Market
The Central Oregon area (including Sisters) STR market averaged $374/night at 68.5% occupancy in June 2026.
Quick Answer: Sisters, Oregon is an active short-term rental market. average occupancy in the Bend market area is 68%. average monthly revenue in the Bend market area is $6,684. average daily rate in the Bend market area is $374. the top operator in the Bend market area is Vacasa with 559 listings. market score is 65/100 (grade C).
Market data reflects the Bend regional market, which includes Sisters. Regulations, taxes, and permit details below are specific to Sisters.
Market Score Breakdown
Five dimensions StaySTRA evaluates per market.
Market Overview
Sisters is a small Western-themed resort town of about 3,738 people at the gateway to the Three Sisters Wilderness in Deschutes County, Central Oregon. It draws a heavily event- and outdoor-recreation-driven visitor base: the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, the largest of its kind worldwide with more than 10,000 attendees each July, the Sisters Rodeo, held since 1940 on the second weekend of June, and the three-day Sisters Folk Festival. Outdoor visitors come for hiking, mountain biking, fishing, and skiing at nearby Hoodoo. Sisters sits within the broader Central Oregon tourism region, which hosted roughly 4 million overnight visitors in 2024, though a city-specific visitor count is not published. Sisters’s STR performance data in StaySTRA’s dataset is tracked at the Central Oregon regional level, shared with nearby Redmond, rather than reported uniquely for Sisters, so all performance figures below describe that shared regional STR market rather than Sisters in isolation. In the most recent tracked month (June 2026), the Central Oregon area STR market shows an average daily rate of $374 and occupancy of 68.5%, with average revenue of $6,684 per listing for the month. Year over year, occupancy is essentially flat, down 0.3 percentage point, ADR is down 5.0%, and revenue is up 3.4%. Bedroom mix, channel split, listing-type counts, and top property manager rosters are tracked at the same shared regional level rather than uniquely for Sisters, so this profile omits those figures rather than present a regional total as the town’s own. Housing data is available specifically for Sisters: the typical home value was $793,150 as of June 2026, with 152 homes for sale.
Seasonal Patterns
| Month | Occupancy |
|---|---|
| Jan | 37% |
| Feb | 46% |
| Mar | 49% |
| Apr | 44% |
| May | 54% |
| Jun | 69% |
| Jul | 79% |
| Aug | 74% |
| Sep | 53% |
| Oct | 44% |
| Nov | 38% |
| Dec | 47% |
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Top Short-Term Rental Operators in Bend market area
Ranked by total active listings. Useful for understanding the competitive landscape. Operator data is published for the Bend market as a whole, which includes Sisters, so these counts are not Sisters-only figures.
| # | Operator | Listings | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vacasa | 559 | 28,316 | ★ 4.54 |
| 2 | Sunriver Resort | 418 | 1,443 | ★ 4.66 |
| 3 | Bennington Properties | 251 | 9,354 | ★ 4.83 |
| 4 | Meredith Lodging | 216 | 6,648 | ★ 4.50 |
| 5 | Arrived Vacation Rentals | 178 | 13,330 | ★ 4.78 |
What Kind of STR Should I Buy in Sisters?
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Booking Channel Mix
Distribution of bookings across major STR platforms.
| Channel | Share |
|---|---|
| airbnb | 26.7% |
| vrbo | 11.6% |
| both | 61.7% |
Home Value Trends (Sisters)
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Booking Insights
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Short-Term Rental Regulations
Short-term rentals are legal in Sisters but tightly regulated. Operators must first confirm property eligibility with Community Development, then obtain an individual land-use STR permit, with an initial application fee of about $500, followed by both a Business License and a Short-Term Rental Operating License, roughly $100 per unit, within 60 days of the land-use decision. All permits and licenses renew annually by June 30. STRs are allowed only in specific zoning districts, and a concentration and separation rule bars a new STR within 500 feet of another, a distance expanded from 250 feet under 2024 Ordinance No. 540, which applies notably to condominium units and residential-only developments in the Downtown Commercial District but not to units in commercial or mixed-use buildings. STRs are banned in Urban Growth Boundary expansion and annexation areas, and RVs or trailers cannot be used as STRs. Notably, Sisters does not require owner-occupancy or that the property be the operator’s primary residence, so whole-house vacation rentals are allowed. Transferability is restricted: STRs permitted after December 28, 2018 cannot transfer to a new owner, who must reapply; those established before that date can transfer only if the new owner secures the required licenses within 60 days. Operators must collect the city’s 8.99% transient room tax plus Oregon’s 1.5% state lodging tax. Enforcement is rated strict, and the per-unit permitting, individual land-use review, and 500-foot concentration cap make this a meaningfully more restrictive regime than typical Oregon towns.
Market Comparison
At 68.5% occupancy, the Central Oregon area STR market, which includes Sisters, is running well above the commonly cited U.S. STR median occupancy of roughly 55%. Its $374 ADR is also far above the national median of roughly $220, nearly 70% higher, reflecting the region’s outdoor-recreation and destination-event draw. That combination of strong occupancy and premium pricing is one of the stronger profiles in this dataset, even as ADR is down 5.0% year over year and longer-term occupancy has cooled from its 2021 peak of 65.2% to 47.7% on a 2026 year-to-date basis. Sisters’s own strict, per-unit permitting regime, with its 500-foot separation rule, limits new supply in a way that most markets in this dataset do not face. Top property manager rosters are tracked at the same shared regional level rather than uniquely for Sisters, so this profile omits operator rankings rather than present regional totals as the town’s own.
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