Best place to advertise villa for rent?

Hey,
Does anyone have any experience with the many websites that offer advertising space for villas? I'm new to renting out our villa in Javea. I'm looking at holiday lettings and choosespain but there are so many....can anyone recommend a good one based on number of hits it gets or bookings received??

Thank you.

 

Yes - there are a few - try vrbo they are very popular - ranked 3,385 most popular site - very big with US property but cover the world and get load of hits.

Best of Luck

 

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Personally I would consider setting up a small website myself to advertise the villa for rent. Using tools such as Google adwords etc it would be very easy to get your page up and seen by potential renters within a few hours. If you decide to take this route and need any help (free of charge) feel free to hit me up.

 

Depending on the local market you can really get shuffled in the mix with many of the rental by owner sites. I would go with a premium package if your property is located in a highly competitive area.

 

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I think the best site would be dubai apartments dot biz (one word) as i have couple of my properties listed with them.

 

I think better invest money for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) rather than advertising space. It will help you lot long term.

 

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I'd recommend Villarenters :- besides the advertising and bookings they provide; you get a full booking engine which takes credit cards that you can use for all your bookings no matter the source...they also provide a website builder that you can use independently to advertise your own bookings under your own URL.

 

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Definetly seek4home . com. Had no idea who they were and gave it a try. Turns out they're new so they avidly social bookmark/advertise all the new properties. Got me a sale, prob a lucky one, but whatever.

 

villarenters is a good site, the bookings management side is excellent.
if you are going to add your property to villarenters and your property is in Turkey, you might want to check out apartmentsturkey.org
they offer free 12 month advertising on their site if you sign up to villarenters via their site

 

It depends who your market is are you looking to rent to. Which nationality are you thinking will be your prime market. Once you have decided what you are doing then you will have a better understanding of how to market your villa.

 

That's a good point, Homelidays is a good site if your property is in France for example, I know many owners with French cottages who list on that site and do fairly well from it.

 

I used to rent out a villa in Spain and my two favorites were villarenters (commission based) and ownersdirect (annual fee). The latter was good for getting UK renters.

 

I would go along with Advoco's advice from my research and I would add holiday-rentals and holidaylettings to the list. Seems worth paying the extra for premium listings having spoken to other owners

 

Try this new site

Hi Guys,

There's a new site that's just launched. Works a bit different to the normal marketing sites but great for selling off any spare availabilty you have.

They don't charge for listing, just collect a fee on the final price. Its in an auction format but they have safeguards in place like reserve pricing and also a buynow price option. Well worth checking out if your property is just sat empty and you run the risk of making no revenue at all for that time period. The company's called bidabooking but I can't add the link as I am still classified as a new member. google them and they come up

Hope this helps!

 

Another option for renters

I had a look at keely's bid site because I was intrigued by the idea of a bookings site where you can auction off spare weeks. Sounds like a good idea and the website looks good:

Bid a Booking: auction rental properties

It looks like a serious proposition and a well put together site but as with all auction platforms you need a critical mass of buyers and sellers which they may not yet have. I clicked on "All Properties" and only 8 are listed.

I will add it to my guide as another option where you don't have to pay an annual fee (like villarenters) when someone replies to this thread saying they've used it successfully. I've linked again to my little guide which is non-commercial - I've only got one property I let out - but which is gratifyingly no1 on Google for the term "rent Spanish property online"

10 ways to get more Spanish property rentals online

 

advoco, Thank you for reviewing the site.

I wanted to give you a little more insight ino what is currently being done to ensure we get the right balance of buyer's v owners.

Working in partnership with a property management company we will be mailing out to all past clients who have rented to notify them of the site, this is scheduled to happen in the next week, we are also working hard on improving our ranking on search engines such as google and yahoo to ensure we come up on related searchs, this takes a little while but already we are seeing some success.

In addition we are planning to do a brand advertising campaign targeted at the UK in the coming months.

I completely agree with your comments, and we are working hard to ensure we get that balance right.

I hope you will re-visit the site in the coming months to see how we are doing.

 

I think craigs helps...