renting your property to short-term is a booming market: Nine top tips for Airbnb property letting success
renting your home to short-term guests is a booming market: Nine top tips for Airbnb property letting success
George Osborne's Budget may have done little to enhance his reputation, but the Chancellor's new rules for small traders renting out rooms (or entire homes) looks likely to boost small-scale entrepreneurs.
In future, we will all be able to earn up to £1,000 through property lettings before paying tax. Platforms such as Airbnb and the London holiday rental firm Veeve predict a rapid expansion in the number of 'hosts' eager to hire out everything from an airbed in their living rooms to a luxury penthouse.
'We've had a real influx of homeowners approaching us,' says Veeve's co-founder, Jonny Morris, who launched the firm in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics.
Accommodation ranges from treehouses to castles and converted windmills. Hosts and guests rate one another after each stay, so cheerless hovels and light-fingered 'guests from hell' are weeded out.
Britain has 52,000 Airbnb hosts and the boom has also spawned hundreds of small businesses. Take property developer Bill Colegrave, whose apartment overlooks Portobello Market in West London.
'I first let this flat to a tenant and made £16,000 a year through traditional rental,' he says. 'Then a friend told me she was renting out three Bermondsey properties for short stays on Airbnb. I put this apartment on there a year ago at £120 a night. It's made more than £16,000 in the first six months, with a likely income this year of £30,000.'
Encouraged by this success, Colegrave set up LettsGetSmart.com, managing a handful of London flats, some belonging to expat friends, using Airbnb to market them.
He takes 15 per cent of the rental, after Airbnb's 3 per cent cut and organises the cleaning, changeovers, meeting-and-greeting and answering guests' queries.
He attributes his almost 100 per cent occupancy rate to clean, affordable properties in a tourist mecca and daily updates on Airbnb's website to keep each flat high up the listings.
'Landlords can get twice the income from short-term rental, but most don't have the time or the resources. We enable them to do so,' he says.
Peter Hayes has rented out a double room with a four-poster bed in 600-year-old Caher Castle in Co. Tipperary. It is let for €130 (£103) a night, though the castle remains a work in progress with visitor income funding the reconstruction.
'I used Airbnb to avoid selling the castle,' says Hayes. 'We asked our first American visitors to give us some pointers. They were insisting we declutter and stop drying our bed linen in the living room. Once we made the changes, they gave us a great review.'
FOR many travellers, small is beautiful. Crofters Sue Hollands and Neil Robertson welcome guests to their cosy converted cowshed, Cleadale Bothy, on the Hebridean island of Eigg for just £40 a night. Though lacking hotel luxury, visitors say the sea views towards Rum are worth it.
By contrast, interior decorators Shaun Clarkson and Paul Brewster's two Norfolk offerings, Carrington House and Cliff Barns, are exquisitely restored.
Each sleeps 18 and is booked months in advance, for stays at £120 per person a night and wedding parties. 'We aim for the wow factor,' says Mr Brewster. 'We've had nothing but lovely guests.
'But Airbnb can be difficult to communicate with and though guests pay it upfront when they book, the firm holds on to the money until the day before people stay.
'For our sort of business, though, Airbnb is so big and influential that it's something you have to be a part of.'
Managed Airbnb Services
There are also a number of Airbnb management companies scaled up operating with property stock in London and throughout Europe , who also offer landlords fully managed service of the property , by "Dynamic pricing" your listing competitively and confidently, based on local events and competition in your area. This results they say , maximises occupancy. A similar pricing index known as room rates is undertaken by the hotel industry.
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ON THE MARKET: GOOD FOR SHORT LETS
ANGLESEY: You'll really stand out with nine-bedroom Point Lynas lighthouse, which overlooks the Irish Sea. There are two other cottages in 17 acres. sothebysrealty.co.uk, 01932 860537; £1.375million
SOUTH KENSINGTON: A stone's throw from the V&A and Buckingham Palace, this two-bedroom flat with a courtyard will draw in tourists wanting to make the most of the capital. foxtons.co.uk, 020 7590 1000, £899,950
ON THE MARKET: GOOD FOR SHORT LETS
MONMOUTH: Beaulieu Park is a five-bedroom barn conversion with plenty of rental potential, thanks to several outhouses next to the stables in its grounds. hunters.com, 01432 278278, £795,000
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