Pricing Your First Listing

Nightly rates, cleaning fees and what you will genuinely clear

This book answers the question that decides whether hosting is worth your while: what you will genuinely clear once every cost is counted. It picks out the few numbers that matter in short-let pricing, then shows you where to find reliable local data for free without paying for software. You will learn to turn that data into an honest income figure rather than an optimistic one, and then build the full cost stack that sits behind a nightly rate, including cleaning and the costs new hosts tend to forget. Your figures are stress-tested against a bad month, empty nights and a rate rise, so the plan still works when things go wrong. A complete worked example turns a headline rate into an honest figure step by step, and the final chapter gives you a simple calculator along with the legal questions it cannot answer, from tax to permissions. Next in this series: “Rent-a-Room Relief, Mortgages and Permissions”.

What’s inside

• The only numbers that actually matter
• Where to find reliable local data for free
• Working out true income, not optimistic income
• The full cost stack nobody mentions
• Stress-testing for the bad month, the void, the rate rise
• A complete worked example, start to finish
• Your deal calculator, and the legal questions it cannot answer

Educational material only, not financial, legal or tax advice. Results are not typical and are not a guarantee of income. Freedom Property Academy LTD, registered in England and Wales.