Pricing your place to get booked, not browsed
Mid-term rent has its own logic: above a yearly lease, below a holiday let. Get the number right and the requests do the rest.
Where mid-term pricing sits
Tenants staying a month to a year pay for flexibility and a furnished, ready-to-live home — so mid-term rents run above an unfurnished yearly lease for the same property, but well below nightly holiday rates. If you’ve only ever priced one or the other, recalibrate before publishing.
The fastest way to your number: search Spotahome for places like yours — same neighbourhood, same type, same furnished level — and note the band. Price inside it; earn the top of it with better media and amenities, not optimism.
Seasonality is real — use it
Demand for mid-term stays peaks twice a year: September (academic year, post-summer relocations) and January (new-year job moves and semester starts). Tenants book weeks ahead of those dates.
- In peak windows: price confidently — well-presented places book fast at the top of their band.
- Off-season: sharpen the price or accept longer stays that bridge into the next peak. A 7-month booking that carries you to September beats a 2-month gap hunting for peak rates.
The empty-month arithmetic
Run this before holding out for more: at €1,150/month, one empty month costs €1,150 — the same as charging €96 less every month for a year, or about 8%. A price 5% sharper that books three weeks sooner almost always wins. Vacancy is the expensive option, not the discount.
Adjusting after launch
Your price isn’t a vow. If views are healthy but saves and requests aren’t coming, you’re being browsed and benched — usually a price or first-photo problem. Drop 5%, wait a week, reassess. The 15-minute audit walks the full checklist.
Got your price?
Apply it to your listing — you can change it whenever you want.