Airbnb Has Set 15 September to Reprice for the 15.5% Fee. It Is Not the UK's Date.

Airbnb has dated the last wave of the split service fee. An article published on 7 July 2026 gives hosts still on it until 15 September to reprice, or 13 October inside the European Economic Area or Switzerland (Airbnb Resource Centre, as of 26 July 2026). UK hosts, that is not your date.

What changed

Airbnb is “combining both fees into a single 15.5% service fee paid by hosts”, and sets “the deadline to adjust your prices” at 15 September “if you live outside the European Economic Area”, 13 October inside it or in Switzerland (Resource Centre, as of 26 July 2026). On airbnb.com those read “September 15” and “October 13”.

These are the closing dates of a migration that has run in waves. Software-connected hosts went first: “On 13 April 2026, hosts who manage prices using property management or channel management software, and were on a split fee, switched to a single fee” (Resource Centre, 10 April 2026). Countries followed: “Hosts who live in Peru or South Korea switch to the single service fee on 25 May. Hosts who live in Germany or the UK switch on 22 June” (Resource Centre, 22 March 2026, both as of 26 July 2026).

What it means for hosts

Keep a £100 price and “you’ll earn £84.50 after the 15.5% fee is deducted and guests will see £100”, where that same £100 paid you £97 under the split fee (as of 26 July 2026).

The fee is not confined to your nightly rate. Airbnb’s Q&A on the same page: “Airbnb service fees are a percentage of a host’s nightly price and any fees a host adds, like a cleaning, pet or extra guest fee.” Your cleaning fee was already in that base at 3%. At 15.5%, a £60 changeover charge carries about £9.30 of fee instead of £1.80.

UK hosts should check their account rather than the calendar. Airbnb’s March article put you on the single fee from 22 June 2026, so your switch has most likely already happened. Some hosts were moved earlier again: one posted on 17 April 2026 that Airbnb “have already started taking 15.5% + VAT from Monday 13th Apr”, and a later reply reports the same charge without any management software (Airbnb Community).

What to do

• Find your actual fee. On desktop: Today, then Menu, then Earnings, open a transaction and read the Airbnb service fee line (Help 1857, as of 26 July 2026). About 3% is the split fee. 14% to 16% means you have already switched.
• Reprice to hold your payout, not your old price. Divide your old payout by 0.845. In Airbnb’s example a £100 price paid £97, so the payout-neutral price is £114.79, which is why Airbnb rounds it to £115, the price guests already saw. Dividing the old price by 0.845 gives £118.34, which solves for a payout you never had.
• Move the cleaning fee and any pet or extra guest fee by the same ratio. The price adjustment tool does that across two years of calendar, but it is built for hosts who do not use property management software and runs only “until the host transitions to the single-fee structure and for a limited time afterwards”. Once used, hosts “won’t be able to revert back to the split-fee structure” (as of 26 July 2026).
• If you are VAT registered, do the VAT yourself. Airbnb says the adjustment covers those taxes “unless you’re VAT/GST-registered and required to account for them yourself”, and warns that raising prices “can increase your gross income, which means you could reach your VAT threshold sooner” (Resource Centre, as of 26 July 2026).

This landed on 7 July, not this week, and Airbnb has already edited it since. The 9 July archived copy ends the deadline sentence at “if you live within it”, where the live page now reads “within it or in Switzerland”, byline unchanged. Every quotation above was checked on 26 July 2026.