The best short-term rental sites

Which are the best sites to advertise your holiday home in Paris? Here are our suggestions.

Once you have obtained the necessary authorizations to rent your house in Paris as a holiday home, you can finally start the business. The first step will be to promote it online.

Even if the gut tells you to publish the adv of your holiday apartment in Paris for short rents on a large scale to maximize its visibility, we strongly advise against this approach. In fact, the best sites are few. Also, managing and updating an infinite number of sites will only expose you to the risk of overbooking (double booking for the same date).

Rely on 1-2 intermediaries to begin. After understanding how it works, you will have all the skills to decide how to proceed. If you don’t know how to begin, or you just want to rent your house in Paris without effort, contact us!

The best short rental sites for every situation

The most popular short rental sites are:

Booking.com. Booking.com used to be a website for looking for hotels. Now, it is also open to private apartment owners. It offers excellent visibility, but because of its origins, it remains very rigid and aimed at those who run this business seriously. For example, you will not be able to cancel reservations, and in case of problems, you will have to find an alternative yourself at your own expense. You will also not be able to customize the ad text, which will be drawn up by a team.

Airbnb. It is the most famous site, the market leader, and it often is the one that generates the most bookings. It is also the best for those who are not familiar with this market. For example, it offers the possibility of canceling reservations and accepting or rejecting guests’ requests.

Homeaway. It is a less frequented site than the others but still very flexible, in Airbnb style. It offers a price and competition monitoring service, suggesting what might be the best rates to apply.