We have purchased in block 14 and have been told by our managing agent that the holiday let market is dead and that they haven't taken any bookings yet for this summer.
We have investigated the famous holiday lettings website and were staggered at the cost. It works out at over £500 per year and there are literally thousands of apartments on there, so why would anyone choose CDS, especially as we are a new complex?
So as we are in IT, we have thought about starting our own website and advertising it locally in the UK, targeting specific niche markets. Our idea is to not charge owners for the privilege of advertising on the site, but that they would pay an administration fee once we have a confirmed booking for them. This way people could advertise their apartments without investing more cash without results.
Anyone interested please PM us. We mentioned it on another thread and we already have a few takers, we reckon that if we have about 10 apartments minimum at first then this would get us started. Any more would be a bonus.
Obviously you have to have completed on and furnished your apartment and have good quality photos that we can place on the site. If anyone is in the process of having their apartment furnished, ask your furniture provider to take some good quality pictures for you, as they usually have fish eye lenses etc, which show the entire room which show the apartments in their best light.
Anyone that is interested but needs photos taking then let us know and perhaps we can arrange to do them for you when we are over there. We are going out, the first week in August.
Cheers
Myne