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Infinity Stays

PROPERTY SOURCING FOR INVESTORS

We only send you deals we’d be willing to run ourselves.

Our team has 10+ years’ experience operating short-let property and we currently run 30+ units. Sourcing came second. It exists because we kept finding properties that worked and couldn’t take them all on. So when we hand you a deal, it’s been assessed by the people who’d be held to the numbers, not by someone earning a fee for the introduction.

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Rent-to-rent, explained properly

You take a property on a lease from a landlord. You’re their tenant, and you pay them the same rent every month whether the property is busy or empty. You then let that property out to short-stay guests. The gap between what the property earns and what you pay the landlord is your income.

That’s the whole model. The landlord gets certainty and no management. You take on the risk and the upside.

What makes it work or fail:

  • Permission. The lease has to allow short-letting, and the property has to be legally able to do it: planning, freeholder consent, mortgage terms, licensing. This is where most beginner deals die, usually after money has been spent.

  • The rent you agreed. Nearly all of the profit in a rent-to-rent deal is decided before you take the keys. Overpay the landlord by £200 a month and no amount of good operating fixes it.

  • Whether it’s actually run well. Same property, two operators, and the difference in annual revenue is regularly tens of percent. Pricing, response times, cleaning consistency, review scores.

What you put in: the deposit and any rent up front agreed with the landlord, our sourcing fee, and furnishing and setting the property up. What you don’t put in: a mortgage, a deposit on a purchase, or stamp duty. You don’t own the property, so there’s no capital growth either. This is an income strategy, not an ownership one.

And plainly: it’s a business, not a passive investment. Run badly it loses money. That’s why the second half of this page is about who’s running it.

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Three ways we work with investors

Different investors want different amounts of involvement. Pick the one that sounds like you.

Sourced and fully managed

You fund it. We run it. You don’t touch it.

We find the property, check it can legally be short-let, negotiate the lease in your favour, and hand it to you signed. Then we operate it: listings, pricing, guests, cleaning, maintenance, on the same management terms as any owner we work with. You’re the leaseholder; the property is yours to keep or exit. Best if you want the income without a job.

Sourced only

You already operate. You just want more doors.

For management companies and rent-to-rent operators who can run properties well and are constrained by deal flow, not capability. We source, vet and negotiate; you sign directly with the landlord and take it from there. We’re not involved after handover and we don’t take a share of your trading income. Best if the bottleneck is finding properties, not running them.

Bespoke search

A specific area, a specific brief.

If you’ve got a defined requirement: a particular town, a property type, a target rent. We’ll search to that brief rather than offering you what we’ve already found. Worth saying up front: tight briefs take longer and some don’t complete, because the deal has to work for the landlord too. We’ll be honest about whether yours is realistic before you pay anything.

Ask whether your brief is workable

What we do before a deal ever reaches you

  1. We find it and we view it.

    In person. Not a portal listing forwarded to you with a rent estimate attached.

  2. We check it can legally be short-let.

    Freeholder and lease restrictions, planning position, licensing, mortgage consent where relevant. If it can’t be done properly, the deal stops here and you never hear about it.

  3. We underwrite the numbers.

    Realistic occupancy and nightly rates for that specific street, from our own booking data in the area, not a citywide average. Then running costs: cleaning, utilities, voids. If it only works on optimistic assumptions, it isn’t a deal.

  4. We negotiate the lease in your favour.

    Term length, break clauses, rent-free period at the start, who’s responsible for what, and explicit written permission to short-let. The rent is the profit, so this is where the work is.

  5. We hand it over signed.

    The agreement is between you and the landlord. You own the relationship and the lease from day one.

What you put in, and when it comes back

There are three costs to getting into a deal: whatever deposit and up-front rent we negotiate with the landlord, our sourcing fee, and furnishing and setting the property up. That’s it, no purchase, no mortgage, no stamp duty.

We won’t print a sourcing fee on this page, because it genuinely varies with the property and the work involved, and a number here would be a fiction. You’ll know it before you’ve committed to anything.

The bar we underwrite to: we aim for deals where your total money in is recovered from trading income within six to seven months. That’s the test a property has to pass before we’ll send it to you. It’s a target, not a promise, nobody operating honestly in this market can promise you a return, and anyone who does is telling you something about themselves. What we can tell you is that a deal that doesn’t clear that bar on our own numbers doesn’t get offered.

The difference between a sourcer and an operator

Most sourcing businesses are exactly that: sourcing businesses. They find deals, take a fee, and their involvement ends at handover. Which means their incentive ends at handover too. A deal that looks good on a spreadsheet and struggles in month four costs them nothing.

Our team has 10+ years’ experience running short-let property, currently across 30+ units. Every assumption in a deal we send you is one we’ve tested on properties we’re already responsible for. We know what a two-bed in London actually earns in February, because we’re operating them in February.

On managed deals, that alignment is contractual: we’re paid a share of what the property earns, so a weak month costs us at the same time it costs you. On sourced-only deals we don’t have that, so we do the only other honest thing. We tell you what we’d be worried about before you sign.

“If the deal isn’t good enough for our own portfolio, it isn’t good enough to sell you.”

What we’ve actually done

  • 10+ years’ experience across the team. Infinity Stays is the trading name of Premium Estates Management Ltd
  • 30+ properties currently under management
  • 100+ deals sourced for investors to date
  • investors we’ve worked with more than once

Available deal one

Rent agreed with landlord
£2,600 per month
Total investor money in
£12,700
Projected monthly net profit
£1,268

Available deal two

Rent agreed with landlord
£2,250 per month
Total investor money in
£10,500
Projected monthly net profit
£1,475

Deals available through us at the time of writing. Projected figures, not promises; you’ll see every assumption behind them before you commit to anything.

We’ll tell you now if this isn’t you

  • You want to be hands-off but you also want to control the pricing. Pick one. Managed deals mean we set rates.
  • You need the money back out in three months. It doesn’t work that way, and anyone promising it is guessing.
  • Your budget covers the deposit and the fee but not the furnishing. An underfurnished property underperforms permanently. Better to wait a month.
  • You want a signed projection you can hold us to. We’ll show you every assumption behind a number and we’ll defend it. We won’t pretend it’s a certainty.

Questions investors ask

Do I own the property?

No. You hold a lease on it. You’re the landlord’s tenant, with written permission to short-let. That’s why the money in is thousands rather than a deposit on a purchase, and why there’s no capital growth.

Is rent-to-rent legal?

Yes, when it’s done with the freeholder’s and landlord’s written consent and the right planning and licensing position. Done without those, it’s a problem waiting to happen. Checking it is part of what you’re paying us for.

What happens if it doesn’t perform?

You’re still liable for the rent. That’s the risk you’re taking on, and we’d rather say it plainly. It’s also why we underwrite conservatively and why the lease we negotiate for you includes break provisions wherever a landlord will accept them.

Can I use the property myself?

Occasionally, yes, on managed deals. It costs you the nights it blocks. Tell us early so we price around it.

What if I’ve never done this before?

A lot of the people we source for hadn’t, at the start. What matters is that you understand you’re taking on a lease and a business, not buying a product. We’ll walk you through a live deal line by line before you commit to anything.

How long until you find me something?

Genuinely varies. A broad brief in an area we already operate can be weeks. A narrow brief in an area we don’t can be months, or not at all. We’d rather tell you that now than take a fee and go quiet.

Tell us what you’re trying to build.

A twenty-minute call. You tell us your budget, your area and how involved you want to be; we tell you honestly whether we can find it and what it would realistically return. If it’s not a fit, we’ll say so on that call rather than sending you a brochure.

Roughly what you can put into a deal, including furnishing.

Or call us directly on +44 20 4525 8152. You’ll get a person, not a form.

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