Owner resources
Short-let insights for property owners.
Practical guides to management costs, preparing your property and running a short let.
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Costs & decisions6 min read
How much does Airbnb management cost in the UK?
How the percentage model works, why the base the percentage applies to matters as much as the rate, and what sits outside the management fee.
Costs & decisions4 min read
Rolling or fixed term: choosing a management agreement
The flexibility-versus-rate trade-off, the questions to ask about any term, and which option suits which situation.
Getting started4 min read
What full-service short-let management actually covers
How owners and managers share responsibilities — and what to ask before appointing a provider.
Running your property5 min read
How multi-channel distribution works beyond Airbnb
Why a property is not presented identically everywhere, and how one calendar stays accurate across several booking sources.
Costs & decisions5 min read
Short let or long-term rental: how to compare the numbers
Gross revenue is not what you keep. A structured way to compare the two options on the same basis for your own property.
Getting started6 min read
Preparing your property for its first short-let guests
A room-by-room readiness checklist, plus the permissions and safety questions to settle before the first booking.
Getting started6 min read
Changing Airbnb management company: a handover guide
Notice, listing ownership, existing bookings, reviews, keys and the closing statement — in the order they need doing.
Running your property5 min read
How short-let pricing works across the year
The inputs that move a nightly rate, why occupied nights are not the only measure, and how to handle a quiet week.
Local owner guides5 min read
Is your Manchester property suited to short letting?
Match a Greater Manchester home's layout, location and facilities to the stay it can serve well.
Local owner guides5 min read
Matching a Hertfordshire home to the right stay
A town-by-town framework for testing property fit, permissions and operating practicality across Hertfordshire.
Local owner guides5 min read
Berkshire: business stays, visitor stays and property fit
How Reading, Windsor, Maidenhead and Ascot differ — and the property questions to settle before choosing short letting.
Rules & planning6 min read
London's 90-night short-let rule: what owners need to check
What the 90-night limit covers in Greater London, the conditions attached to it, and what to check before you let.
The service itself
How each part of management works.
The guides explain the decisions. These pages explain what Hostahome actually does once a property is under management.
- Property careProperty care is the coordination of everything that happens between stays: the changeover, the check on how the property was left, and the repairs that follow.
- Property marketingListing and pricing management covers how a property is presented to guests and how its nightly rates are set and reviewed.
- Guest communicationFrom the first enquiry to the final check-out, we handle guest questions and arrival details, with communication available 24 hours a day, seven days a week..
- Guest screeningGuest screening is the review that happens between a booking request and a confirmed stay.
- Bookings and payoutsBooking management is the coordination of availability, changes and the record that follows each stay.
- Owner reportingOwner reporting is how you keep oversight without running the property.
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