{"id":1935,"date":"2018-01-23T11:33:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T11:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2018-01-23T11:33:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T11:33:15","slug":"landlords-are-using-short-term-lets-to-fill-voids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/landlords-are-using-short-term-lets-to-fill-voids.html","title":{"rendered":"Landlords are Using Short-Term Lets to Fill Voids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Void periods are a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.basic_tenancy.html#watch-demo-anchor\">landlord\u2019s<\/a> worst nightmare. A rental void is that awkward period when a tenant moves out and there is nobody to take their place. Having a property empty for a month is not such a bad thing if it needs a makeover or there are some seriously messy jobs to be done. But when one-month rolls into two months, and so on, it will hit you where it hurts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.equity_and_yield_analyser.html#watch-demo-anchor\">in your pocket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Airbnb Short-Term Lets<\/strong><br \/>\nAn increasing number of landlords are using short-term letting websites such as Airbnb to plug the gaps in a tenancy. Research carried out by the Residential Landlord Association has revealed that the number of buy-to-let landlords using Airbnb shot up by 54% between 2016 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boosting Rental Yields<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen you do the maths, it isn\u2019t difficult to see why many landlords are opting to let out their properties on sites like Airbnb. A one-bed flat in London can easily attract \u00a3100 per night from eager travellers; and even more, if it is well-located near popular attractions. The same flat would earn a landlord around \u00a31700 per month, so there is more profit to be made via short-term lets and the property doesn\u2019t need to be occupied all month.<\/p>\n<p>It is precisely this flexibility that makes short-term lets such a convenient way to fill voids. So if you have an empty property in a scenic part of the country, list it on Airbnb to make up the shortfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Void periods are a landlord\u2019s worst nightmare. A rental void is that awkward period when a tenant moves out and there is nobody to take their place. Having a property empty for a month is not such a bad thing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/landlords-are-using-short-term-lets-to-fill-voids.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property_management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}