News and Discussion

Is having a social media account for your holiday home enough on its own? At Owners Websites, we fully endorse the use of all forms of social media.  It’s a great way to keep your loyal customers happy with updates, news and special offers.  However, there are some important reasons why you shouldn’t rely on…

Guests love it when you personally recommend outings for them.  It saves them the worry of trying something unsuitable or not much fun. Take the time out next time you visit to do one of your favourite walks (or one you think the majority of your guests will enjoy!) and document it, taking enticing photos…

Owners Websites are delighted to launch the website for this luxury villa on the Costa Blanca –  Casa Tonica. Casa Tonica is a Spanish villa well situated in the town of Javea on the Costa Blanca, about an hour from Valencia and Alicante. The website features Owners Websites’ Availability and Booking Calendar enabling visitors to…

The key to getting bookings is to engage with your potential audience and highlight what makes your holiday home and the area so desirable.  So here at Owners Websites, we recommend you post a blog on your website at least every once in a while (though the more frequent the better!) and let guests know…

Another Owner’s Website Just Launched! With a new website and booking calendar for 2018, Owners Websites are delighted to present A Stone’s Throw in Perranporth, Cornwall.   Take a look at their new website by clicking on the image below:  

North Yorkshire We’ve had a little taste of the North Yorkshire Coast this week and are delighted to have been asked to design and copyedit a website for two cottages in the award-winning location of The Bay, Filey. The website has our very useful availability and booking calendar installed and we like to think is…

Mention the words cleaner or cleaning company to a holiday home owner and most will have a lot to say on the subject … with varying degrees of frustration! Cleaning Your Holiday Home is not something many owners can do themselves so it challenges their supplier management skills. So, what seems to be the problem with…

Having sold a successful lettings agency on the south coast of England back in 2016, we wanted to concentrate our energies into our passion – holiday lettings!   We bought our first holiday home five years previously in 2011 due to our love of the Lake District.  At that stage, we couldn’t quite afford the…

We don’t crush your vision for a Holiday Home Rental website by making it conform to specific a formula or layout.  Our intuitive software means we can design you the website of your choice.  We will happily offer input into the design should you be unsure of the look you are going for, but if you…

Let’s face it, in this day of everything getting reviews, from kettles,corporate companies, local newsagents – everyone gets worried about receiving a negative review. So, what can you do to avoid it, and if you are unlucky enough to receive one, how should you deal with it? Managing Holiday Home Social Media I’m genuinely excited…

Our websites are adapted specifically for holiday home owners.  We offer a variety of useful and intuitive functions that set us apart from ordinary website designers.

As Holiday Home Owners ourselves, we know all the good bits and bad bits to Holiday Lettings and are favourably placed in order to help you.  We achieve phenomenal occupancy rates with our properties and want you to do the same! We can help you with everything from maintaining your Holiday Home Website, to Facebook,…

With a background of over ten years in residential lettings, many landlords back when we owned our agency would ask us why we didn’t choose to go down the route of the ordinary buy to let – despite recommending it to so many!  The simple answer was that we didn’t want to – it didn’t…

Year Of The Holiday Home ? – An interesting read for anyone who is perhaps considering the purchase of their first (or nth!) holiday home. (Update) 2017 may well have been the Year of The Holiday Home, but the Brexit Effect continues to disrupt the overseas holiday market in 2018. Feedback from our clients suggests…

VisitBritain have forecast a significant increase in UK tourism this year (2017) up 4% on 2016. This compares to a 1.5% increase the following year and is attributed to a number of factors: Recent falls to the Pound Sterling exchange rate against all major currencies indicate UK consumers are planning to spend more of their…