A guide to Short Breaks in holiday letting
Are you looking for a way to increase bookings for your holiday cottage? Have you considered offering Short Breaks?...
As a holiday let owner, you naturally want to get the best price for your property throughout the year.
In the Sykes Family of holiday cottage brands, we use a system called Income Maximisation to monitor market trends & adjust your rental price accordingly. Lakelovers Owners can also benefit from this.
Read on for further details about Income Maximisation and how it could benefit you.
Optimal earnings and occupancy – Our market leading income maximisation algorithms managed by our team of experienced analysts create daily optimal pricing for each holiday week at a granular level, ensuring that all potential opportunities are seized. This enables us to deliver more bookings at the most optimal revenue.
Lakelovers Owners have four choices of different levels of Income Maximisation.
We can increase your agreed rental price without limit, or decrease it by up to 20% (no more than 10% in low season).
We can increase your rental price without limit, and decrease the price by up to 10%.
You give us the discretion to vary your agreed prices upwards (without limit) or downwards within 4 weeks of departure date (limited to 10% discount)
This allows us to increase your rental price by up to 25% where demand allows, and we would contact you about any other pricing initiatives.
This allows you to keep your prices static, with no increases and no decreases.
Which type of Income Maximisation you choose is entirely up to you. You may want to consider:
We do also offer our owners the option to be on Fixed Pricing which is where the rental price is set by you. However, this option offers much less flexibility and makes it harder to keep up with market trends and customer demand.
Opting into Income Maximisation is a hassle-free way to ensure your property is advertised at the best price all year round. It also helps to fill up your calendar with bookings where there would normally be less demand, which is a great way to secure bookings in the quieter winter months.
When partnered with offering short breaks to guests, this popular way of pricing can offer our owners the chance to earn much more than their standard rental price.