INFINITY STAYSRequest assessmentProperty sourcing for investors
We’ve been running short-let property since 2021 and have managed or co-managed 100+ properties. 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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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:
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.
Different investors want different amounts of involvement. Pick the one that sounds like you.
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.
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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.
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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 workableIn person. Not a portal listing forwarded to you with a rent estimate attached.
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.
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.
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.
The agreement is between you and the landlord. You own the relationship and the lease from day one.
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.
If the deal isn’t good enough for our own portfolio, it isn’t good enough to sell you.
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.
We’ve been running short-let property since 2021, across 100+ properties managed or co-managed. 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.
How full management worksDeals available through us at the time of writing. Projected figures, not promises; you’ll see every assumption behind them before you commit to anything.
Pick one. Managed deals mean we set rates.
It doesn’t work that way, and anyone promising it is guessing.
An underfurnished property underperforms permanently. Better to wait a month.
We’ll show you every assumption behind a number and we’ll defend it. We won’t pretend it’s a certainty.
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.
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.
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.
Occasionally, yes, on managed deals. It costs you the nights it blocks. Tell us early so we price around it.
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.
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.
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.
