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title: Search shows open calendar dates as unavailable
description: "Your availability search excludes a property for certain dates, even though the property's individual calendar shows those nights as open. **Why this…"
url: "https://homerunner.io/docs/why-does-the-availability-search-show-a-property-as-unavailable-when-its-individ/"
updated: "2026-10-26"
category: Booking engine and checkout
---

# Search shows open calendar dates as unavailable

Your availability search excludes a property for certain dates, even though the property's individual calendar shows those nights as open.

**Why this happens.** In nearly every case this is the minimum-stay rule, not a sync problem or a search bug. The two screens answer different questions. The individual property calendar shows night-by-night availability only, meaning whether each night is already booked. It does not display the minimum-stay requirement. The availability search applies the full booking rules: every night in the requested range must be open, and the property's minimum stay for those dates must be satisfied.

A property can therefore show a run of open, green nights on its calendar and still be correctly excluded from the search, because those dates carry a minimum stay longer than the requested trip.

Still stuck? [Contact the HomeRunner team](https://homerunner.io/contact/) with your site address and what you tried, and we take it from there.