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BNB Hot: press & media
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE · Hot Springs, Arkansas
The Hot Springs real estate site that answers the one question the big portals won't
A local site, BNB Hot (bnbhot.com), now tells any homeowner or buyer whether a specific Hot Springs address can legally be a short-term rental, reading the city's own public records, and pairs it with a full suite of free tools no national real estate portal offers for this market.
Anyone shopping for a home in Hot Springs runs into the same wall. Zillow, Redfin and Realtor.com show the price and the photos, but none of them answers the question that actually decides a deal here: can this address be licensed as a short-term rental? With the City of Hot Springs' cap of 400 residential STR licenses full since July 2025, that answer is the difference between a property that earns and one that can't. BNB Hot was built to close that gap.
At the center of the site is a free eligibility checker that reads the City of Hot Springs public GIS. Type any address and it reports whether the property sits inside the city limits or in unincorporated Garland County, what its zoning is, and whether it can be licensed as a short-term rental, along with its FEMA flood zone and a rough income estimate. No other site serving Hot Springs does this.
Alongside it, BNB Hot publishes a live map of every licensed short-term rental in the city, 744 properties drawn straight from the city's records, and a market dashboard that shows current median prices with no login or paywall. The site tracks those numbers nightly, building a public record of how the market and the licensed-rental count move over time.
The breadth has grown well beyond short-term rentals. BNB Hot now covers buying, selling, luxury and waterfront homes, commercial property, long-term rentals and relocation, with more than 40 guide pages and a set of calculators, home value, rent-versus-buy, mortgage, property tax, that are grounded in current local data rather than national averages. Every figure is sourced, and the site states plainly where its data comes from and where it stops.
Notable features
- Address STR eligibility checker — city vs. county, zoning, licensing, flood zone and an income estimate for any address, from the city GIS.
- Live licensed-STR map — all 744 licensed short-term rentals in the city on one map, from the city's own layer.
- Open market data — current median prices by ZIP, tracked nightly, with no login or paywall.
- Free calculators — home value, rent vs. buy, mortgage, property tax and short-term-rental revenue.
- Full local coverage — buying, selling, luxury, commercial, long-term rentals, neighborhoods, schools, the lakes and the Oaklawn racing season.
- Original and sourced — every page is written for Hot Springs, with the data's origin stated and nothing scraped or republished from other publishers.
About BNB Hot
BNB Hot (bnbhot.com) is an independent guide to buying, selling, hosting and investing in real estate in Hot Springs, Arkansas, from Bathhouse Row and downtown to Lake Hamilton, Lake Ouachita and the Ouachitas. It is part of a network of Hot Springs real estate sites and works alongside The Bergeron Group at Keller Williams. The site is not affiliated with Airbnb, Vrbo or any platform it names, and its tools are offered free to the public.
Media contact
Nancy Bergeron, The Bergeron Group, Keller Williams · 501-463-6328
General: 501.365.1001 · bnbhot.com/#contact
Members of the media are welcome to quote this release, reference the site, and use its public tools. Screenshots and a short demo of the eligibility checker and the licensed-STR map are available on request.