Finance your trip with your accommodation with the map Luckey

You own a property? Win money through seasonal rental and simplify the task thanks to the services of a concierge service!

As you prepare your suitcases for your next destination, another traveler organizes his next holiday in your city. What if his stay helped you finance yours? Enjoy the financial benefits of traveller accommodation and travel around the world knowing that your accommodation pays you money!

A community platform with nearly 3 million housing announcements in 192 different countries, Airbnb has for several years been a fan! The concept is simple: the site allows individuals to put some of their accommodation (or their entire accommodation) for rent by allowing holidaymakers to stay at affordable prices. Travelers then feel at home anywhere in the world, and guests complete their income by welcoming them.

Today, Airbnb is not just summed up at its accommodation reservation site but is positioned on other activities. Airbnb recently invested in France with the acquisition of Luckey, a French startup specializing in the development of concierge services for individuals, in order to simplify the seasonal lease arrangements of its owner customers.

But what is an Airbnb concierge and what are the benefits of using this type of service? What amounts can a host expect to earn with a company? The answers to all your questions are in this article!

Save money during your holidays thanks to seasonal rental

Because becoming the owner of a property often generates unforeseen costs and expenses, putting its accommodation on a seasonal rental platform is a useful way to amortize some of these costs. Because in addition to providing travellers with an accessible alternative accommodation solution, you can indeed round up your month-ends or earn your real estate investment!

Even if the additional income allowed by seasonal rental increases the purchasing power of the hosts or amortize the acquisition costs of their property, Airbnb owners are increasingly boasting the human benefits allowed by sharing their home with travellers from all over the world.

The Airbnb concierge: How does it work?

More and more guests opt for the concierge service to delegate several tasks that take time and that sometimes require a lot of organization. This is the case of the concierge service Luckey, now a subsidiary of Airbnb, who proposes to release you from the constraints of short-term rental by offering a full concierge service in about 30 French cities as well as in Switzerland and Canada, where the subsidiary is present in five cities.

But how does it work? After the registration on the site, Luckey will analyze your information, make an all-inclusive quotation and an appointment with the concierge service will be organized. As a result, you'll have to hand over your keys to the latter, your access to your rental ad on the Airbnb platform and trust them!

Luckey’s concierge service includes:

• De create and optimize your ad on the site (e.g. taking professional photos and optimizing the calendar and the overnight price)
• De respond to travellers 7 days a week and 24 hours a day
• From Management arrival and departure of passengers (check-in / check-out)
• of possible support emergency repairs
• Ensure it cleaning after each departure of travellers by a professional
• De check the state general housing
• To ensure it protection of property thanks to their insurance
• To increase the satisfaction Travellers
• Just manage host availability through mobile application for them

In terms of prices, it is important to know that the rate for a concierge service is generally 20% applied to the net revenue generated.

To illustrate the situation, imagine for example that one night in your Airbnb rental comes back to 50€, with an occupancy rate of 60%. By delegating your announcement to a concierge company, which will optimise it, it will manage to increase the night price to 80€ and to develop this occupancy rate to 80%.

Included Commission, you will see your rental income increase by nearly 350 euros net monthly, without having to take care of anything!

Benefits of the Luckey concierge, Airbnb subsidiary

• A tranquility of mind

One of the significant benefits offered by concierge services is the saving of time. You will not need to create an ad, to welcome travellers, to look for a solution to restore the keys of your accommodation, to carry out the house cleaning or to change the linen: it is the concierge service that handles everything!

So you can invest this time in something else and go on vacation without any stress!

• A tailor-made service

The concierge service also offers personalised and human accompaniment with teams from Account Manager who watch grain and are available for any questions from their customers.

The Account Manager also allows for an optimal price strategy: their knowledge of the seasonal market allows them to evaluate the most suitable prices. These prices are regularly modified according to a specific context, seasonality, an event approaching...

• Locality

Luckey's strength also resides in its expertise in regional markets. The company covers a large part of French territory thanks to its large network of City Manager.

A City Manager is a regional manager who monitors Luckey's operations in his city. But above all, a regional manager is a passionate tourism entrepreneur who loves his city and fulfills his promotion. The latter meets the customers, intervenes in case of litigation, incident or other, and directs the cleaning and reception teams that will make each Luckey property an ideal Airbnb cocoon.

• Controlled management

Finally, even if you no longer have to deal with the management of your property, you still keep remote control thanks to the application of Luckey for the hosts.

This allows you to block dates very easily and those without limit or delay: you remain free to open or close your property to the rental and thus keep the control of your accommodation in all circumstances. The app also allows you to track current bookings in real time, access information about your future guests and the net amount generated by each current reservation and the monthly net income generated by your activity on the seasonal booking platform.