List on Flexiestays. Keep running your own property.

You bought the flat, furnished it, learned the tricks and now run it yourself. The listing is written. The cleaner is booked. You know which August weeks sell themselves and which February Tuesdays never do. What you want is not a manager. What you want is more people seeing the property.

That is what the 5% plan sells, and it is all it sells. Your property joins the Flexiestays booking platform and the guest audience that books through it. Everything else stays with you. It suits the owner with one seafront flat and a full-time job, the couple running two cottages in Christchurch, and the operator with a handful of apartments whose system works and does not need replacing.

When a calendar has gaps the owner cannot explain, the cause is usually reach rather than effort. Most self-managed properties sell on one or two channels, because running more than that by hand is miserable. Another channel that costs nothing to hold, and charges only when it produces, is an easy addition.

Most owners who self-manage are not doing it to save money. They do it because they care how the property is run. So this plan touches none of it.

Pricing stays yours. You set the nightly rate, the minimum stay, the cleaning fee and the discounts. We do not override them, and we do not run dynamic pricing on your calendar unless you move to the managed plan and ask.

Guests stay yours. Messages, check-in, the mid-stay problem, the review afterwards. All you. We hand over the booking and the guest details, then step back. Guest communication is a managed-plan service and you are not buying it here.

Your cleaner stays your cleaner. Housekeeping, linen and laundry are coordinated through a vetted trusted-partner network on the managed plan. Here we do not touch them, and we will not ask you to drop a supplier who already turns your flat round in three hours.

Standards and compliance stay yours. The gas safety certificate, the electrical checks, the fire risk assessment, the tax return, any registration or planning position: all still your responsibility, exactly as they are now. A listing platform does not take those on.

Two guests pay £900 for the same week. One books through a large OTA, one through Flexiestays. They are not the same £900. The OTA takes its commission off the top, and the guest relationship belongs to the platform rather than to you. The direct booking carries no OTA commission, and the guest is yours to keep. A returning guest is the cheapest booking you will ever take.

Reach is the other half. The indicative model behind our income estimator puts a well-distributed property at around 68% occupancy against roughly 47% for one on limited channels. In that model a two-bedroom flat has a base of £142 a night, and a seafront position carries a 1.25 multiplier, so about £178. Twenty-one points of occupancy is roughly 77 nights a year. Do the multiplication and 5% stops looking like a fee and starts looking like arithmetic. Be clear what those numbers are: an indicative model published to help owners think, not a measurement of your property, not a forecast and not a promise. Your street, your photos and your reviews move every figure in it.

Sometimes it is. We would rather say so here than sell you a listing you will resent in October.

Take the 15% fully managed plan when the work stops being worth it: when you are answering guest messages in meetings, when a failed changeover ruins your Saturday, when you live two hours away, or when you have quietly stopped raising your rates because re-pricing the calendar is a job you never get to. Take it when a second and third property have outgrown the spreadsheet, or when you run a whole building and want one team on it, which is the shape of serviced accommodation and aparthotel management. That is operational management of a letting business. It is not block or leasehold management.

On that plan we run the listings, distribution and pricing, handle guests around the clock, and coordinate cleaning, linen and maintenance through the vetted partner network. The Flexiestays listing is included inside the fee, not charged on top. The trade-off is control, which is exactly what you protect by staying on 5%. If you are undecided, read managed vs self-managed Airbnb, see how holiday let management in Bournemouth works day to day, and browse the operator guides in our resources library.