One Windsor three-bedroom, over five years
+£53,820
Extra money in the owner's pocket, on top of the rent the house would have earned anyway.
That is £897 more a month, and £10,764 more a year, than letting it to a tenant.
Based on live comparable performance across Berkshire and the Thames Valley. Your own projection is built from properties on your street.
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What this actually is
You keep the house.We run it as a short let.
Your property is let by the night rather than by the year. The people who stay are contractors working locally, families relocating for a job, and people placed by their insurer while their own home is repaired. Most stay somewhere between a few nights and a few weeks.
It is not a lease and it is not a rent-to-rent. We do not take the property off you and sublet it. You stay the owner, we run the operation, and we are paid a percentage of what the property earns, so we only do well when it does.
What stays yours
- The title and the mortgage. You are the owner throughout.
- The right to sell whenever you like, with no sitting tenant.
- The right to block out dates and use it yourself.
- The right to take it back on thirty days' notice after the initial term.
What becomes ours
- Listing, photography and staging across Airbnb and Booking.com.
- Nightly pricing, adjusted daily to demand and seasonality.
- Guest vetting, ID verification and a deposit on every stay.
- Cleaning and linen between every stay, and a photo inspection after each one.
- Every guest message, at any hour, and the compliance work behind it.
What stops
- No tenant to find and reference.
- No rent to chase and no arrears.
- No deposit disputes at the end of a tenancy.
- No eviction process to go through.
- No void month where the property earns nothing.
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The same property, two ways
One three-bedroom house in Windsor.Two very different outcomes.
Before, let on a tenancy
- Monthly rent
- £0
- Less letting agent fee
- −£0
- Less void allowance
- −£0
- In your pocket, a month
- £0
- In your pocket, a year
- £0
- Locked in until your tenant chooses to leave
- Section 21, the no-fault eviction, is gone, and recovering it is slow and difficult
- You won't see inside it for twelve months
- Selling usually means selling with a tenant in place
- Void periods are entirely your problem
+47%
+£897 a month+£10,764 a year+£53,820 over five years
After, managed by Harper & Wood
- Monthly short-let bookings
- £0
- Less our 15% fee
- −£0
- Less running costs
- −£0
- In your pocket, a month
- £0
- In your pocket, a year
- £0
- Your keys back on thirty days' notice
- Block out any dates you want it yourself
- Sell whenever you like, no sitting tenant
- Professionally cleaned and inspected after every stay
- We carry the work, you keep the property
Some properties do considerably better. A two-bedroom flat in Newbury can take around twice its rent in bookings. That is gross, before cleaning, platform fees, bills and management, so it is not all the landlord's. On that property the owner is paid 72 percent more than a tenancy nets them, and a three-bedroom house in Slough is paid 53 percent more. It does not work on every property. On some houses the honest answer is that the tenancy wins, and we will tell you that before you commit to anything.
Figures based on live comparable rents and nightly rates in Windsor, July 2026, net of platform and cleaning fees. The void allowance assumes one empty month in thirteen, a standard planning assumption for tenancies. Running costs assume utilities, council tax, broadband and insurance. Occupancy modelled at 65%.
Fig. 03. Three-bedroom house, Windsor. Comparable data, July 2026.
Illustrative interior, not a Harper & Wood property.
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The part nobody talks about
You own it. But right now,you can't really use it.
A tenancy hands over control of your property for as long as your tenant chooses to stay. Section 21 was the rule that let a landlord end a tenancy at the end of its term without having to give a reason, the so-called "no-fault" eviction. The rules have since changed and, in general terms, regaining possession now takes longer than it used to. There are still grounds a landlord can rely on, and how they apply depends on the individual tenancy. What that tends to mean in practice is that you cannot count on moving back in at short notice, or on lending it to family, and you rarely see the inside of it between tenancies. This is general comment, not legal advice, and you should take your own advice on your position.
Take it back on thirty days' notice
There is a short initial term while the listing builds its reviews and ranking, and after that it is simply rolling, with thirty days' notice whenever suits you.
Use it yourself, any time
Block out dates for family, friends or your own stay. Just give us reasonable notice.
Sell whenever you like
No sitting tenant, no chain complications, and a proven income record for investor buyers.
See it maintained, not degraded
Professionally cleaned and photo-inspected after every single stay, rather than once a year at checkout.
Illustrative interior, not a Harper & Wood property.
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Who you would be dealing with
Two people.Not a call centre.
We live in Virginia Water and we run every property ourselves. There is no call centre, no outsourced manager, and nobody in another timezone answering on our behalf. When you ring, you get one of us, and the person who picks up is the person who knows your property.
Oscar Harper
Most of this job is responsiveness and follow-through, which is what recruitment taught him: dozens of live client relationships at once and not dropping any of them.
Before that came eight years in education, teaching full time, running one-to-one SEN support, and building a school's holiday camp from fifteen children to eighty. He was selected as one of twenty candidates from over nine hundred for the Thames Valley Police detective entry programme, and read Philosophy at Reading.
Charlotte Wood
Charlotte comes from adult social care, where the work is a demanding caseload held to statutory deadlines: complex cases coordinated end to end, meticulous records, and sensitive personal information handled to public-sector data protection standards.
Her days are spent communicating with families, local authorities, healthcare professionals and external agencies, usually with people who need a straight answer quickly. That is the same discipline behind guest vetting, compliance and the statement you get every month.
We do the work ourselves
Guests answered in minutes. Cleaners coordinated to the hour. Every changeover checked. You are not handed to an account manager you have never met.
Working in conjunction with a national operator
We operate using the systems and standards of a network managing 50+ short-let units across the UK.
Every projection built from live data
We use PriceLabs and Property Market Intel, and we show you the assumptions behind every number.
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From first call to first booking
Live in seven days.
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Within one working day
Your free income projection, built from comparable properties on your street.
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Within 3 days
We view the property and agree onboarding. Nothing is signed until the numbers make sense to you.
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Within 7 days
Staged, professionally photographed, listed across Airbnb and Booking.com, and live.
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Within 24 hours of going live
Ready to take your first booking.
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Within 30 days
Your first payout, with a full statement showing exactly where every pound came from.
Illustrative interior, not a Harper & Wood property.
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What you get
Everything handled.Nothing hidden.
Getting it earning
- Full listing creation across Airbnb and Booking.com
- Dynamic nightly pricing, adjusted daily to demand, events and seasonality
- Full staging service with no labour charge
- Smart lock or key safe supplied and installed at no cost
Every single stay
- All guest communication, 24 hours a day
- Guest vetting, ID verification and a security deposit on every stay
- Cleaning and linen coordination after every stay
- Post-checkout photo inspection, every single time
Your side of it
- Monthly statement with a direct comparison against your previous rent
- Short-let compliance walkthrough: insurance, safety certificates, sanctions screening
- Full handback process whenever you want to leave
Month one is free. Month two onwards, 15% of booking revenue. No setup fees. No onboarding fees. No charge for our staging labour.
Our staging labour is free, which typically saves £1,000 to £3,000 against a staging company. You cover only the cost of any furnishings needed, agreed with you in advance.
Three-month initial term so the listing has time to build reviews and ranking. Rolling 30 days' notice after that. You are never locked in long term.
If your short-let income does not beatyour previous rent within 90 days, wewaive our entire management fee until it does.
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No obligation
Find out what yourproperty could earn.
We'll build you a projection from live comparable properties near you and send it within one working day. No pressure, no obligation, and no cost.