For city-centre investors
Short-let management for city-centre apartments.
If you own a handful of flats in one or two city-centre blocks, you want a partner who reports like a finance team: event-aware pricing, building-friendly operations, and a monthly statement that sets your short-let net against your long-let line. We start one unit on a 90-day pilot, with a clean exit.
How we run a block
A systematic answer to each frustration, not a promise.
The problem: rates sit flat while arena headliners, football fixtures and graduations push demand hard, so the nights that should earn the most are left underpriced.
Event-aware pricing
Nightly rates tuned to a city micro-calendar of arena, football, graduation and conference dates.
More +Those dates get reviewed early and given measured uplifts on top of the day-to-day pricing, reviewed daily inside the two-week window.
A floor and ceiling you set
You set the guardrails once and we work within them, never crossing either without asking first.
More +No separate pricing-tool charge: dynamic, event-aware pricing is inside the 20%, and the event impact is called out by name each month.
The uplift, on the record
Each month you see the event weekends that paid, in plain numbers.
More +Illustrative: a graduation week shows occupancy up 9% and rate up 15% versus the prior week, called out on your monthly summary.
The problem: you find out a clean was missed when a guest leaves three stars. With no evidence and no checklist, every turnaround is a coin toss you cannot see.
Systematic turnovers
Every checkout raises a timed turnaround task on a property checklist, not someone's memory.
More +The same housekeeping team learns your block, working a photo checklist: kitchen, bathrooms, beds and amenities, with a lead spot-checking on busy days.
Photo-verified before arrival
The turnaround is photographed before the next guest, so you see the flat was ready.
More +Illustrative: turnaround photos uploaded within two hours of the clean, against a property-specific checklist, on every stay.
Cleaning at cost, no markup
The cleaning itself is charged to the guest at cost and passed straight through.
More +We take no commission on it. Coordinating and photo-checking the turnaround is inside the 20%; the cleaning cost is not.
The problem: guests message at all hours, access goes wrong at the door, and the concierge starts to dread your bookings. The building relationship is one complaint from a problem.
A building brief, agreed first
Bins, lifts, parcels, quiet hours and contractor access, agreed with the concierge before the first guest.
More +One named, accountable manager for your block, and a neighbour charter in the guest guide, so the building stays on side.
Smart locks, not lost fobs
Time-bound codes that generate from the booking and expire at checkout, with no concierge dependency.
More +Access is the fastest route to a bad review, so we test it before go-live: what happens at ten at night, in the rain, with luggage?
Noise monitoring, levels only
It measures sound levels, never records conversations, and we step in politely before a neighbour notices.
More +If a building is strongly anti short-let, we simply do not onboard there. The relationship matters more than one booking.
The problem: does the lease even allow short lets? Is the insurance right, the safety pack in date, the registration sorted? Unanswered questions sit there as quiet risk.
Lease, lender and insurer
We check the lease covenants and confirm short-let cover before we list.
More +If the lease clearly prohibits short lets, we do not proceed. Compliance is the onboarding gate, before a single guest books.
The safety pack
Gas safety, EICR, smoke and CO alarms and a proportionate fire risk assessment.
More +Tracked with renewals diarised before they lapse, never sorted out after the first booking.
Registration readiness
We confirm the property is ready for the short-let registration scheme.
More +Something many self-managing owners miss. We would rather find it now than after a guest has booked.
The numbers
We compete on net, against your long-let line.
Our 20% is taken after the channel fee and net of cleaning, never on the gross. The number that decides it is the net, set against what a long let would return. Break-even is simple: the gross a short let needs to match your long-let net, divided by 0.80. We calculate it for your flat and track your net against it every month.
IllustrativeCleaning is charged to the guest at cost and passed through, with no commission to us. Your block's figure comes from the free audit, based on Airbnb market data. A guide, not a promise.
How it starts
Start one unit on a 90-day pilot. If it is not trending, you stop.
We do not ask you to move a portfolio on a promise. It begins with a free audit of one flat, then a rolling 30-day notice after the pilot. No lock-in, and you keep the listing and its reviews.
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A baseline, pricing and listing findings, a building brief and the break-even line for one flat. No commitment.
Last 30 and 90 days if you are listed, or your long-let equivalent and target gross if you are not, plus whether the first five photos sell the experience.
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An event-aware calendar for your block with weekday and weekend splits, flagged event dates and minimum-stay rules.
Built from the city micro-calendar so you can see exactly which dates are expected to pay, before anything goes live.
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We implement in about a week, with weekly scorecards and reviews at day 30 and day 60. Clear success criteria, agreed up front.
Weekly leading indicators so nothing is a surprise, and your short-let net tracked against the long-let baseline every month.
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At day 90 you decide. Roll on to a 30-day notice, add more units, or walk away cleanly. No penalties, no trailing commission.
You keep the listing, the reviews and the ranking either way. We earn the rest of the portfolio by proving it on one unit.
Ready when you are
Get a free estimate for your block.
Tell us about the building and one of the flats. A real person on the Yorkshire team will come back with a free, honest estimate and an outline of the 48-hour audit. No pressure and no obligation.
Thanks. A real person on the Yorkshire team will reply within one working day.
We will read what you sent properly before we get in touch: no scripts and no call-centre queue.
- A free 48-hour audit A baseline, a four-week pricing plan and the break-even line for your block, with no commitment.
- No lock-in, one unit first A 90-day pilot on one flat, then a short rolling notice. You keep the listing and its reviews.
- A reply within one working day From a person on the Yorkshire team, not an automated queue.