Holiday cottages, any demand for them?

[steelnads]

I own a "twee" terraced house close to the Broads at Oulton Broad a popular area for pleasure cruises,sailing etc .
I am thinking of renting it out for weekend breaks and holidays.
Do you think there would be a market for it and if so what one expect to pay for a long weekend break or a full week in the summertime?

Any views would be welcome

Thanks Steelnads

[alan_driver]

You could register it with a internet company that will find customers for dates you specify, they take a cut of the cash but means no hassle for you. Dunno about demand tho.

[gopher]

Me and Mrs Gopher stayed in one for the first time last year towards the end of the summer in North Yorkshire. It is a small village, the cottage is 5 doors down from a pub, and just over the road from a really good (read good food, good service, reasonable price no looky down nose) restaurent, sleeps 4 - 1 double 2 single, river at bottom of garden (good slope no -worries about floods), already booked again in March, we're hooked we have a fly-away holiday and a uk holiday each year this is "the" uk holiday for us - if you have a clean,quiet place with enough to do in the near area then go for it - the person who rents the cottage we booked is busy around (I reckon based on availability and the guest book) 48-50 weeks a year. averageing around £190-£200 a week.

Investigate it - we booked through an agency on the "innernet" first time - now we go direct.


Cheers

Paul

[alan_driver]

If anyone has a place avaliable in Newquay for a week or so in the summer, to rent out to about 5 18 year old males + women (depending) then let me know!

:wishfulthinking:

[Nevin]

Try a firm called English Country Cottages. My aunt used to work for them and most of their cottages are full the whole year round if you want them to be (i.e. if you don't want to live there for a few weeks a year). Despite their name, they don't just do cottages and they cover Scotland and Wales as well.

[mondeoman]

I'd echo previous posts, having owned a bunch of letting cottages before.

If it is clean, well maintained, sensibly priced and readily available at peak periods - New Year, Easter, Whitsun and school hols, then you can expect it to get booked up. You can either advertise it yourself or go with an agency - they'll cream about 20% off your advertised rental figure, but they do all the organising - all you have to do is hand over the keys.....

Give it a go - no harm in trying.

[Oi_Oi_Savaloy]

My mum has a tiny cottage she rents out in Devon and she goes through one of the innernet agencies (that have a brochure too) and the response has been fantastic.

I second Mondeoman; if you price it sensibly, it's clean and in a good area with stuff to do you'll have no problem renting when you aren't using it.