Full short-let management for investors and rent-to-rent operators, on a published rate card that starts below where our landlord card ends. You keep the lease, the consents and the upside. We take the listings, the pricing, the guests, the changeovers and the reporting.
A percentage of gross booking revenue. It moves on how long you commit for and how many units you place, and nothing else — there is no negotiation because there is nothing held back.
Alongside the fee: a one-off setup fee from £570 per unit, £15 a month for pricing software, and the running costs of the let itself. Everything is itemised on one monthly statement and you are paid by the 1st of the following month.
| Commitment | 1 unit | 2–4 units | 5+ units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flexible — rolling, no minimum | 14% | 12.5% | 11% |
| 6-month term | 13% | 11.5% | 10% |
| 12-month term best value | 12.5% | 11% | 9.5% |
One month's written notice on every tier. The six and twelve-month rates carry a minimum term, and leaving inside it does not release you from the fees that would have accrued over the remainder. The flexible rate has no minimum at all.
This is Schedule 2 of the agreement, in plain words. Most management companies will not show you this until you are signing. It is the single most useful page for deciding whether an arrangement works, so it goes first.
Charged as one percentage of gross booking revenue. No separate management retainer.
This is why the investor rate is lower than the landlord rate. You are carrying more, so you pay less. It is not a discount.
The management fee buys the management. The unit still has running costs, and you should see them here rather than on a first statement.
All of it is itemised on one monthly statement showing gross booking revenue and every deduction, with the balance in your account by the 1st of the following month.
Cleaning is charged per changeover rather than per week, so it moves with how many bookings there were rather than how many nights. On a unit doing short stays that is the largest line after the management fee. The income calculator asks you for it rather than leaving it out — set the fee to your investor rate and the numbers hold.
Where you hold the property on a head lease rather than owning it, our ability to run it depends entirely on that lease and those permissions staying valid. The agreement says so directly, at clause 22, and we would rather point at it now than after something happens.
None of that is unusual for this kind of arrangement. What is unusual is publishing it on a marketing page. We do it because the deals that go wrong in rent-to-rent almost never go wrong on the numbers — they go wrong on permission, and by then the guests are already booked.
So we check first. Written consent to sublet, lender consent where it applies, and the licence or planning position for that specific address. If those are not in place we will tell you, and we will not take the unit on until they are.
A plain summary of terms in our own agreement, not legal advice. Take independent advice before entering any rent-to-rent arrangement, and read the agreement itself rather than this page.
The wrong one costs you money either way, so it is worth thirty seconds.
You own or lease the unit as an investment, you already hold the consents, and you want the cheapest possible operational cost against a property you are actively managing as a business. Fee 14% to 9.5%. Paid by the 1st. One month's notice.
This is me →You own a home, you want it let and looked after without becoming a business, and you would rather we carried more of the relationship with the property. Fee 22% to 14%. Paid by the 10th. One to three months' notice by term.
See the landlord page →We also run a co-hosting arrangement for operators who want to keep more of the day-to-day themselves. It is priced differently again — ask us and we will send the terms.
More detail in the rent-to-rent guide and on assessing a short-let deal.
Tell us the address, the term you are on and what you are paying for it. We will come back with what we think it earns including the quiet months, which rate applies, and whether the consents work.