Websites for a letting agency or holiday-let management company
Worth the commission, proved before they even ask.
We build websites for letting agencies and holiday-let management companies in Bude, North Cornwall and North Devon: a portfolio that shows the scale of what you manage, the commission explained in plain terms, and a page built to turn a prospective owner into your next instruction. A website starts at £1,195, or we build it free from £25 a month.
From £25 a month, or from £1,195Every price
“An owner deciding who should manage their cottage checks your website before they ring anyone else, and it doesn't say how many properties you run, what the commission covers, or show a single one of them.”
A portfolio that proves the scale of what you manage, the commission explained in plain terms, and an enquiry built to turn a prospective owner into your next instruction.
A portfolio to run, and the next instruction to win.
The words below are the ones you use. We write the site in them rather than translating them into something a stranger would say.
Your week isn't one changeover, it's several, on different days, in different villages. You're holding keys for a cottage in Widemouth Bay, chasing a cleaner in Boscastle, and sending an owner statement to a landlord who lives two hundred miles away and wants to know why October was quiet. None of that is visible from outside, and none of it is what wins you the next property.
What wins the next property is the phone call you never hear happen. An owner who has just inherited a cottage in Kilkhampton, or is tired of running their own listing, spends an evening comparing you against the national agencies and the office two doors down, and rings whoever looks like they actually run a portfolio, not just a spare room. They want to know how many properties you manage, what the commission buys them, and whether you can be trusted with the asset that pays their mortgage.
So the site has two jobs, for two different people. For the owner deciding whether to sign, it has to show the portfolio, the fee, and the case for why your management earns its cut. For the guest looking at one of those properties, it still has to load fast, show real availability and answer the same questions any holiday let has to answer. Get the first one right and the second one grows on its own.
- portfolio
- instructions
- management commission
- owner statements
- key holding
- changeovers
- void periods
- referencing
- compliance certificates
- channel manager
- owner portal
- onboarding
Uswitch landlord survey, reported by Letting Agent Today, 2023
63%of UK landlords would consider switching to a fully managed let
Source: Uswitch landlord survey, reported by Letting Agent Today, 2023. Sample: 2,000 UK landlords surveyed by Uswitch; a general letting-agent survey, not holiday-let specific.
www.lettingagenttoday.co.uk/breaking-news/2023/03/self-managing-landlords-ready-to-instruct-agents--new-reportWhat your site actually has to carry.
Not a feature list. These are the things a customer of yours is trying to do, and where each one has to sit before they give up and ring somebody else.
| What it needs | Why, for you | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| The portfolio, in full | An owner sizing you up wants to see the scale of what you run before they hand over a cottage that pays their mortgage. | A page listing every property you manage, with photos and where each one is |
| The management commission, written out | 'Competitive rates' answers nothing. An owner wants the percentage, and what it buys, before they ring. | Its own page, next to a 'become an owner' enquiry form |
| An owner enquiry form, kept apart from guest bookings | A landlord asking you to manage their cottage is a different enquiry from a guest wanting to book one, and mixing the two loses both. | A dedicated page, linked from the portfolio |
| Live availability for each property | A guest who can't see dates goes back to the listing site to find them, and books there instead of on the property you manage. | Each property's own page, wired to the booking system you already run it on |
| Owner-facing proof: statements, key holding, compliance | Gas safety, EPCs and the changeover schedule are the boring detail that convinces a nervous owner you actually run this properly. | A short page under 'why manage with us', not buried in a PDF |
| Reviews from owners, not just guests | A guest review says the cottage was clean. An owner needs to hear that the last landlord got paid on time and the boiler got fixed. | A short section on the portfolio or 'become an owner' page |
What we’d do first.
Before a rebuild, before a rebrand, before anything with a monthly fee attached to it. In this order, for a letting agency or holiday-let management company.
A portfolio page listing every property you manage, updated the day you win a new one, so an owner can see the scale before they ring.
The management commission and what it covers, written out next to a 'become an owner' enquiry form, kept separate from the guest booking button.
A Google Business Profile built for what an owner actually types — 'holiday let management Bude' — not just the listings guests search for.
And what we wouldn’t bother with
A bespoke owner portal built from scratch
Every serious property management system already has one, live statements included, and building our own would cost more than the software itself. Put that money into the portfolio page that wins the owner in the first place, and let the system you already run handle the statements once they've signed.
The words your customers actually type.
Not keywords. Half-sentences, typed with one thumb, usually within a few miles of you and usually about to spend money.
holiday let management company Bude
letting agent Widemouth Bay
property management North Cornwall
holiday let management North Devon
Every one of those is either a page on your site or a line on your Google Business Profile, and usually both. Local SEO and the Google profile is priced on its own, set up once and kept right through the season.
Read next: How do I show up on Google Maps in Bude?
What that takes, and what it costs.
Every one of these has a published price. Where it’s a range, a short call turns it into one fixed figure in writing before any work begins.
- Website design and buildFree build from £25/month, or from £1,195A portfolio that proves the scale of what you manage, and an enquiry built for a prospective owner.
- Local SEO and Google Business ProfileGoogle Business Profile setup £90Found by owners searching for management in your area, with your Google listing matching the site.
- Care planFrom £60/monthHosting and backups, and from the Grow plan up new properties added to the portfolio when you send them over.
- Photography and videoStock photography £145; shoots quotedThe properties you manage, shot to sell the week to guests and your service to owners.
Most of what we can show you so far is holiday parks, glamping and holiday home sales, built by the same two people under our holiday-park name. The thinking is the same and the figures on each study are lab measurements, stated in full. See the work.
Care plans, marketing and the smaller extras are all on the pricing page. When you know what you need, start your project.
The questions we get, answered straight.
We already use property management software for bookings and statements. Do we need a website as well as that?
Yes, and they do different jobs. Your management software runs calendars, statements and card payments; the website is what a prospective owner or a guest sees before either of those things ever start. We wire the site into whichever system you already run, rather than building a second one to compete with it.
We only manage a handful of properties. Is a portfolio page worth it if it's small?
Yes, and arguably more so. A small, honest portfolio with real photographs of properties you actually run beats a page that promises everything and shows nothing. It grows one entry at a time, and every new instruction is a reason to update it.
Does the site need to work for guests booking a stay and for owners thinking of switching to us?
Yes, and we keep them apart on purpose. A guest wants a calendar, a price and the wifi password; an owner wants the commission, the portfolio and proof you can be trusted with their asset. We build both, with the owner enquiry never buried behind the guest booking button.
What does a website for a letting agency or management company cost?
A Fast-Track Website, from £1,195, covers the portfolio, the owner enquiry page and the pages guests search for. A larger site with live booking across many properties, or one taking payment itself, is a bigger build: a Bespoke Website, from £2,495. Google Business Profile setup is £90 on top of that. Or we build it free from £25 a month on a pay-monthly plan. Every price is on our pricing page, and a range is fixed in writing before we start.
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We look at it the way one of your customers would: on a phone, in a hurry, on a Bude signal. Then you get an email from Leonard or Rebecca with the one thing to fix first and roughly what it would cost.
The check costs nothing and there is no sales call after it.