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Benefit from our team's decades of experience in property management as we offer expert advice and insider knowledge on the potential and profitability of your Queenstown property for short-term rentals.

Benefit from our team's decades of experience in property management as we offer expert advice and insider knowledge on the potential and profitability of your Queenstown property for short-term rentals.

Exploring the Possibility of Providing Short-Term Holiday Accommodation?

The trend of offering short-term holiday accommodation has gained significant traction as a method for renting out your property to vacationers or business travelers. This allows for stays of varying durations, from a few days to several weeks. By opting for this approach, homeowners can yield substantial revenues, often exceeding those generated from traditional long-term rentals. The sporadic occupancy of the property ensures that it remains available for personal use or for hosting family and friends.

Our objective is to present you with an overview of holiday accommodation letting, as well as to offer you the opportunity to explore the topic further through a professional evaluation of your property's suitability and potential for holiday accommodation letting.

This market has gained considerable popularity among property owners looking to generate income and visitors to Queenstown seeking enhanced value, increased space, a more relaxed atmosphere, and an exceptional stay.

Our Services
Full Property
Management Services
Strong Income
Potential
Keep enjoying your
vacation home
Extensive
Financial Reporting

Professional Services

We manage your property on your behalf, including home setup, marketing, reservations, sales, guest care, servicing and maintenance of your property

Friendly Support

Our property management team are here to ensure everything runs smoothly for you and for your guests

Owner Portal

Track your bookings, revenue & statistics and view your owner statements using our online owner portal

Our Services
Owner Requirements

Your home needs to be supplied to the market fully furnished, with all hard and soft furnishings, bedding, crockery, cutlery, utensils and appliances that makes a guest's stay

Property Management

We manage your property on your behalf, including home setup, marketing, reservations, sales, guest care, servicing, and maintenance of your property. We collect all revenues and after we meet all authorised expenditure we will forward you a statement of activity and net proceeds of revenues earned, on a monthly cycle.

Our relationship with you is documented by a written agreement.

We market our properties across multiple online channels, manage all guest enquiries, then solicit or confirm reservations and seek full payment before each guest stay. On Guest departure, each property is professionally checked and serviced to industry best practice standards and made ready for the next guest.

Revenue

Revenues received are reliant on current market tariffs and the level of occupancy that is desired or achieved. Expenses are generally related to occupancy and will only increase if your occupancy increases. Net incomes can be very strong, but they do fluctuate, especially across seasons. Incomes are not constant, there will be strong months, there will be weak months and there are no income guarantees, but annual incomes are typically higher than long term residential letting.

You do need to be aware that this letting activity is operating in the tourism accommodation sector and it is affected by all parameters of that market.

We follow your direction on how you would like your property run, some owners only seek a small amount of visitor use and some wish to maximise the use of their home and hence maximise their incomes and maximise their investment. Occupancy can be controlled by tariffs or excluding availability.

The holiday accommodation property is operating in the tourism accommodation market and there are standards that are expected by the market place. We can guide you through these standards but they will be dependent on your property and your expectations.

Net incomes of up to 8% net return on the market value of a property can be achieved and still allow short-term use of the property for the owner.

Holiday Accommodation versus Residential Letting

Holiday accommodation lets to guests on a nightly basis, Residential letting is to long term residential tenants and falls under the regulation of the Residential Tenancies Act 1986.

Residential tenancies will typically generate a steady income, but not at a level achieved with Holiday Accommodation.

If you require lending to complete your property purchase, you may find that your bank may not accept income from holiday accommodation use as being acceptable to meet loan payment obligations.

Not all properties are suitable for holiday accommodation and will be more suited to residential tenancy.

Holiday accommodation use will increase the wear and tear on any property and owners of properties letting to holiday accommodation use will need to spend on cleaning and maintaining good to high standards of presentation.

Long term residential letting typically does not allow for owner use of the property.

Investment returns with residential tenancy use can typically range between 4% to 6% net on the market value of the property.

If holiday accommodation letting is not for you, please contact our Residential Management Team and they can guide you through this renting alternative.

Why Us

Fisken & Associates Ltd trading under the Professionals brand have been operating for over 30 years in Queenstown as licensed real estate agents. We are Queenstown’s longest serving real estate agency.

We pride ourselves on professionalism in our practice, customer focused service, and we always strive for customer satisfaction.

We have been operating property management services for 30 plus years and we take our role of guardians of your asset seriously:

  • Professional sales processes for handling enquiry and maximising reservations.
  • Multiple online marketing channels to maximise market coverage.
  • Industry best practise reservation, payment and accountancy systems.
  • Experienced and professional property management.
  • Reliable and trustworthy trades network.
  • Consistent and reliable home services experts.
  • A team of mangers with broad ranging skills and experience.
  • Our status of licensed real estate agent means that we meet all statutory real estate licensing requirements and that we are monitored and regulated in our activities as licensed real estate agents by the Real Estate Agents Authority.
  • Our Real Estate Institute of New Zealand membership is a further statement of our commitment to professionalism.
  • Professional financial management systems. All monies collected on behalf of our clients are held in trust, each owner's account activity reconciled against the bank account monthly, with activity statements and payments to owners within five working days of month end.
  • Responsible, trustworthy, motivated, professional and successful.

"the fact that you keep a note of the things we want done and follow them through to resolution. This seems to be a very rare talent in property management!"

Invitation to Meet

Meet with one of our professional managers either by phone, email or in person. There are many details for you to take in to consideration when choosing to let your home as holiday accommodation, and in your selection of managers and their management systems. Our professional managers will review your property and your expectations and then invite you to a detailed online web book resource covering:

  • preparation
  • marketing
  • reservations
  • accounting
  • local authority requirements
  • potential incomes
  • housekeeping
  • property management
  • monitoring of current market tariffs
  • all you need to know to make an informed decision as to how to proceed with letting your home.