Two strategies, kept genuinely comparable
Short-term and long-term letting are different businesses with different income, different costs and different risk. BuyerWingman estimates both for the same property, using the same underlying facts, so the comparison is fair rather than two numbers pulled from unrelated sources.
- Estimated long-term rent — a monthly figure based on comparable lets in the area, the property's size, type and condition.
- Estimated short-term income — a nightly rate and expected occupancy, built up into an annual figure that reflects the local season.
- Seasonality — the months where short-term demand is strong and where it is weak, so an annual average does not hide a thin winter.
- Net rental income — income after the running costs a landlord actually pays, not the headline figure alone.
Estimated, always — never a promise
Every figure on this page is labelled as an estimate. Rental income depends on management quality, marketing, local regulation, competition and plain luck, none of which BuyerWingman can control or guarantee. The page exists to give you a reasoned starting point, not a projection you should treat as guaranteed income.
Where the local evidence is thin — too few comparable lets, or a market with no reliable short-term data — the range widens and says so, rather than presenting false precision.
Built on the same property facts as everything else
The estimate uses the same measured area, location, property type, room count and condition that BuyerWingman has already established for the property, so the rental figures are consistent with the valuation and the renovation plan rather than a separate calculation with its own assumptions.
Where a renovation is planned, the rental estimate can reflect the property after works, so you can see how upgrading a kitchen or adding a bedroom changes what it could plausibly earn.
Net rental income and yield
Gross income is only half the picture. BuyerWingman deducts a realistic set of running costs — management fees, cleaning and turnover for short-term lets, void periods, maintenance, insurance and local charges — to arrive at an estimated net rental income.
That net figure is then set against the property's price to produce an estimated gross and net rental yield, so you can compare this property against others, or against the acquisition price BuyerWingman has already worked out.
Best months, not just an annual number
For short-term letting, the page breaks the year down by month so you can see where demand and achievable rates are strongest, and where the property is likely to sit empty or rent for less. This matters for cash flow and for deciding whether a mixed strategy — short lets in season, a long let out of season — makes more sense than one approach all year.
How it connects to the rest of BuyerWingman
Rental potential does not stand alone. It reads from the property's valuation and local market data, from the renovation plan if one exists, and it feeds into deal finance, where estimated rental income can be set against the total cash required and the financing assumptions to see whether the numbers hold together as a deal.