What counts as a deal? Does this just mean it is a listing, or does it have to be a certain savings over usual? Maybe it’s just that SSR and OKW are already rock bottom whereas BWV has room for discounts.
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I would be interested in an average cost too. Seems BW owners rent their points more than others.
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These are counts of all rental deals I’ve recorded by resort and room type. No price analysis on this table.
When I say it is not ALL deals, I mean I have no way of counting rentals booked privately or ones requested on the rental sites. Sorry if my wording was confusing.
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Oh so by “deal” you mean in the sense of “transaction”, not “discount”? That makes sense.
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I wonder if it’s because BW is desirable and has a nice low points chart? You also see bigger contracts at the older resorts because the minimums used to be higher. That being said, I would expect the same at the Beach Club which isn’t very high on your list.
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I was thinking b/c it was the second DVC built after OKW
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The average cost is a little difficult to do as an apples to apples thing - believe it or not, between just the 3 DVC rental sites I pull from regularly there are 92 different variations on room type. They are not good at standardizing and must type in the room types manually! Crazy.
I normalize them as much as I can and I also track them using simplified room types (Studio, 1BR, 2BR, etc) - but when you summarize the room pricing doing that can you really compare a Value Studio to a BWV Boardwalk view or AK Savannah view? Methinks not, but I still do summarize them since there’s at least a sketch of pricing by room type and resort.
Here’s a few summary tables related to BWV: First the count and pricing of deals using the normalized original room types:
Now, the summary using the simplified room types:
And, Simplified room type Studio pricing for all resorts:
Don’t know that I see any answers to any mysterious DVC rental questions in these charts, but I’m hoping once I get to a full year of data maybe something interesting will begin to emerge. 
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I think the numbers that throw me the most in thatbis how cheap the BC studios are comparatively when we know what a primo resort that is, and secondly the sheer number of GF reservations for rent, especially considering the higher price tag.
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Yes, I was kind of amazed the median price of deals was so different at BWV vs BCV just across the way. Guess the combo of factors (Stormalong Bay, newer vs older etc) comes into play.
And because of higher volume of deals at BWV, much better chance of scoring a room closer to $300 per night there than BCV.
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I thought you might find this data point interesting - it is the inventory of DVC rooms by resort.
BWV has a hugh number of studios along with BLT (but studios are tiny) and Poly for the “park affiliated” DVC. I put AKL somewhere near that catagory too. BWV and AKL have the lowest points of those.
I think GF mumbers will be an anomaly. The new studios opened up a ton of inventory all at once. I am sure people still trying to get rid of points jumped on that all at once. In the future I think that volume comes down.
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BCV is an outlier when it comes to DVC resorts. It seems to buck every trend there is.
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it may be helpful for you to compare the points charts by room type, leaving the dollars out of the equation. We’ve found for example that a Savannah view costs about the same in points as a garden/Boardwalk view.
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I agree. I can generally change my BWV garden view studio or my CC studio to an AKL savannah view for 1 or 2 points a night.
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Thanks! 
My goal as a non-DVC owner for this project was to look at the pricing from the other side of the equation as a renter trying to compare the actual rental costs to just booking a Deluxe resort.
I understand how points charts are crucial to booking through the DVC system, and also see how that likely can drive the owners pricing their rentals (At least until the rentals don’t sell and they drop price.)
Knowing the points from that perspective feels more like knowing the price of the engine and other individual parts of a car vs just caring how much a car is going to cost me in the end. 
Sure, there might be comparable room types of similar point cost between resorts (BWV Garden vs AK Savannah as @ PT points out) - but as a renter I really don’t care about price per point so much as how much better a deal I’m getting than a regular room booking. And of course knowing a standard room vs some other upgraded room so I can compare similar room types. (Don’t want to compare a Kia to a Jaguar.)
Probably more difficult: I’m pulling in massive amounts of records from these sites (over 130K in 2 months) and only about 45% of them have the points listed in the data. No way I can look up the missing points for each deal and then apply them to all the various points charts and seasons without a TON of work. (Maybe I could automate it more easily if the rental sites all actually used the standard room types and view names Disney does for those points tables, but they sadly do not.
I often put a disproportionately crazy amount of work into my projects to figure things out, but not THAT crazy. 
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Best hand in that Liner badge now, sir.
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On the per point rental market they give the price per point so a quick calculation will tell you how many points are included. I think the current market price is around $20-$22 pp. But on the pre-booked ones that data is probably hidden unless you run the dates, resort and room type through DVC trip planner. I don’t know the magic of excel and if there’s a way to integrate their data into your program
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Thank you for putting so much work into this analysis! It is fascinating. I’m still trying to decipher what lesson I can take from this, other than that I am probably likely to get a last minute BWV reservation if I need a rental on short notice.
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I miss the way the old mouse owners R/T/B formatting
I am constantly amazed by people with distressed points and reservations- asking top dollar- I don’t know but when I see a reservation with dates 6 weeks listed at $22-24 a point I cringe- same with points listings in that price range with must be used before…
@Jeff_AZ I guess it’s what the market will bare but, I don’t think it’s the significant savings it once was…I could be wrong but in the past picking out distressed points reservations was IMO where the cost savings vs risk factor made the difference
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Part of what I wanted to figure out was when deal prices start dropping - funnily enough since I’ve started the number of listings that ever drop in price seems to be staying steady at about 16%.
Although checking manually just now I see that about 40% of the deals with check-in dates in the next 4 weeks have dropped, so I may need to set something up that crunches those numbers with a little more nuance.
In any case, most of the price drops are not impressive to me at all - especially deals like these two:
Check in dates about 2 weeks+ out, you’d need to drop a lot more than $74 on a $962 deal for me to think about booking. (I know it is a 1BR Villa, but still.)
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