LandlordGauge

Short let vs long let calculator

Compare annual rental income using your own occupancy and costs. Include booking-length cleaning costs, the London night cap and break-even occupancy.

Your letting options

Accommodation price per occupied night, excluding the separate cleaning fee.

Your own estimate across a 365-night planning year.

Your expected average stay.

Charged to the guest once per booking, before platform and management fees.

Your expense for one booking. Annual cost uses the expected booking count.

Your rate, charged on accommodation and guest cleaning fees.

Applied to the same guest total as the platform fee.

Total annual short-let bills. Enter 0 if none; excludes cleaning entered above.

London 90-night cap

Caps occupied nights at 90 per calendar year.

Monthly rent before voids and management fees.

Expected weeks without long-let rent in a 52-week planning year.

Charged on long-let rent collected after the void allowance.

Your annual comparison

Example result

Short-let annual net income

£16,105.50

Long-let annual net income

£12,692.31

Annual difference

Short let minus long let
£3,413.19

Break-even occupancy

To match long-let net income
53.01%

At 237.25 occupied nights and 79.08 expected bookings, short letting leaves £16,105.50 a year compared with £12,692.31 from long letting, before finance and tax.

Example: illustrative zero cleaning and an average stay of 3 nights.

Rates as of