Super Bowl home rental prices not meeting high hopes

San Francisco

SOME San Francisco Bay Area residents hoping to rent their homes for thousands of dollars a night to deep-pocketed Super Bowl attendees are finding themselves short of the goal line.

While vacation rental companies, including Airbnb, HomeAway and others, report doing a brisk business in advance of this weekend's Super Bowl 50, some of their most expensive offerings have found no takers.

Still available on the website Super-Bowl-Rentalz.com, for example, is an 11,000 square-foot, five-bedroom, eight-bathroom "executive mansion" that comes with helicopter and limousine service for US$7,500 per night, reduced from US$15,000 in January. Airbnb said it has booked housing for more than 11,000 guests into Bay …