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RENTAL AND MANAGEMENT

Rental and management of your holiday home in Marbella.

Marbella is the one place on this coast where an average property is not enough. Guests paying two to four hundred euro a night do not compare your apartment with the one next door, they compare it with a hotel in the same bracket. That sets what has to work.

The market splits into clear areas that behave differently. Puerto Banus and the Golden Mile run on short summer stays, with guests who book late and ask a lot. Nueva Andalucia lives off golf: longer stays, calmer guests, and a peak in spring and autumn rather than August. San Pedro de Alcantara and Elviria draw families staying a week or two. Mixing those areas up puts the wrong price on the wrong week.

At that level guest experience is not a luxury but the basis of your return. A slow reply costs you the booking, a sloppy check-in costs you the review, and a four star review in Marbella costs you visibility you do not get back. We answer seven days a week, do check-in in person or with a smart lock, and work with a cleaning team that can hold a hotel standard rather than a holiday-let one.

The paperwork is Andalusian. The property is registered as a vivienda con fines turisticos, with a registration number that must appear in every listing, and you need a valid licencia de ocupacion. If your property sits in an urbanisation or community of owners, it pays to check in advance what the statutes say about tourist letting. We do that at the intake, before anything goes online.

The fee is 20% excluding VAT on net accommodation income. No fixed cost, no setup cost, cancellable monthly.

What this means in Marbella
Puerto Banus, Nueva Andalucia, Golden Mile, San Pedro and Elviria
Pricing per area, because they do not move together
Guest service at the level this bracket demands
20%

of your net accommodation income, excluding VAT. No fixed cost, no setup cost, cancel monthly.

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Why golf matters more to your calendar than summer

In Nueva Andalucia and around La Quinta the best weeks are not in August but in March, April, October and November. Golfers book earlier, stay longer and complain less. A property set up for that calendar, with a price that does not collapse in shoulder season, earns more across the year than one that only fills in summer.

We set your listing up for it: longer minimum stays in spring and autumn, a separate price structure per period, and photos that show what a golfer wants to see, such as the distance to the course and where the clubs go.

What a guest expects in Marbella and nowhere else

Air conditioning that works in every room, hot water immediately, wifi two people can video call on, and a kitchen with more than the minimum. Here that is not an extra but the floor. If something is missing it is in a review within the week.

At the intake we go through the property on those points and say plainly what needs doing before we go live. Sometimes that is nothing, sometimes it is a few hundred euro that pays for itself in one season.

OUR OFFER

Everything we do in Marbella

Listings on Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, all synced in one system
Hostkeeper Pricing: your price tuned to the market every day
All guest communication, 7 days a week, fast and personal
Cleaning and linen through our regular partners, at cost price, with photos after every turnover
Self check-in with a smart lock or key safe
Guest screening and a noise sensor without a camera
Answering reviews and filing damage claims
Repairs coordinated through our regular handyman, above 150 euro your approval first
A listing check every quarter
Monthly report on a fixed date
A dedicated contact person who knows your home, no call centre

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