Raising the standard of holiday rentals in Spain
Does the prospect of renting out your home in Spain make you shudder? Fear not, the new age of property management and holiday rentals in Spain has arrived.
The Costa del Sol has long enjoyed a long-standing status as one of Europe’s most popular sun and sand destinations. But with the sustained growth of the coast’s property market, the choice and standards of accommodation have increased enormously, making a fantastic variety of options available to ever-eager homebuyers and holidaymakers.
Thanks to that ever-increasing number of Northern Europeans choosing to buy property on the coast, which they use for just a few weeks of the year, holidaymakers have the opportunity to stay in top-quality homes during their visit to Spain. The high demand for attractive properties to rent also provides property buyers with a safe means of increasing the return on their investment.
Renting someone else’s property for a self-catering holiday property is nothing new. But a recently established home management company, HomeCareontheWeb, has customized a new way of offering this service, to ensure maximum benefit for both the property owner and the holiday maker.
Servicing clients on-line vis-á-vis two websites, www.homecareontheweb.com and www.holidayrentalontheweb.com, HomeCareontheWeb has harnessed the latest web technology to dramatically change the way holiday properties are cared for and the way holidaymakers can organize their visits to the coast.
The key to any successful service is reliable communications. HomeCareontheWeb uses an advanced and unique on-line communication system, which shows an instant visual record of a property; along with visual details of any problems should they occur. The system also displays a calendar of visits, allowing owners to accurately plan their own schedule of stays for friends and family, as well as a statement of accounts.
Effectively, HomeCareontheWeb posts web images of properties to the relevant website. Meanwhile, homeowners are serviced by a personalized on-line account, which can be accessed completely at their own discretion. Holidaymakers, on the other hand, have access to the complete selection ofproperties available on the www.holidayrentalontheweb.com website. With everything from palatial villas to more modest apartments on their books, holidaymakers can choose their holiday home according to their tastes and budget. Also, HolidayRentalontheWeb can provide holidaymakers with a series of services and extras to make their holiday ass luxurious as desired. With a secure on-line booking and payment service, this holiday website is, in fact, the only one on the Costa del Sol which allows holidaymakers to view, book and pay for their holidays completely on-line.
Tony Sidebottom, Managing Director of HomeCareontheWeb, the company that owns and manages HomeCareontheWeb, is the brains behind this technology-based service. When asked how the concept for his service evolved, he comments, “I wanted to bring a new level of property management and rental services to the coast that placed equal emphasis on property owners and the holidaymaker. As a result we customized the website, making it both personal but flexible and have consciously designed a system which ensures our service is totally accountable, allowing customers to feel that they have complete control over the management of their home and their holiday.”
Most importantly, this is a scenario in which everybody wins. Homeowners can be safe in the knowledge that, not only will they generate extra income from their property, but also that it is being taken care of by a company which prides itself on good service. And holidaymakers enjoy the benefit of staying in quality accommodation, which is truly a home away from home.
HomeCareontheWeb
Tel: +34 952 83 95 95
www.homecareontheweb.com
www.holidayrentalontheweb.com
Caché Life May/June 2004
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