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Short-term rentals for real estate agencies: win new management mandates

Short-term rentals for real estate agencies are first and foremost a matter of visibility: holiday home owners no longer choose their property manager by walking past the agency window — they search online and compare reviews, services and commissions. Keyo puts your agency exactly where owners are looking — with a professional profile, presence across multiple cities and priority on the management requests in your area.

How agencies win mandates today

Most agencies working in short-term rentals win management mandates the way they always have: word of mouth from long-standing clients, a referral from the surveyor or the building administrator, the occasional local Facebook group. Channels that work, but that are fragmented, hard to measure and impossible to scale: when word of mouth slows down, so does acquisition.

Meanwhile, owner behaviour has changed. Someone with a holiday home who wants to earn from it does what they would for any other service: they search online, compare three or four property managers, look at the reviews of the properties already managed, and only then send an email. If your agency doesn't show up in that search, then for that owner you simply don't exist — even if your office is two hundred metres from their home.

Finding properties to manage today means staffing the exact spot where demand appears: the owner's online search. That's the problem Keyo solves, with a directory of property managers and agencies organised by city and with management requests published directly by owners.

Keyo's Agency plan

Property management for agencies has different needs than a single property manager's: more areas, more properties, a team. The Agency plan is built around those needs.

Multi-area presence

The agency profile appears in the directory and on the city pages of every area you operate in: if you manage properties in Rome and in Barcelona, owners find you in both. The Base and Pro plans cover a single area.

Priority on owner contacts

When an owner publishes a management request in your area, Agency profiles receive it first. Being first on a management mandate often makes the difference between winning it and reading about it once it's already been assigned.

Featured placement

The agency appears as featured in the directory and on city pages, above the standard results. To preserve the value of the position, featured agencies are capped at three per city.

Dedicated agency page

A public mini-site with the properties you manage, your team and the areas you cover, ready to link to Google Business and social media. It's the answer to the owner who asks «show me how you work» — always up to date.

Monthly area report

Every month you receive the data for your area: how many owners searched for a property manager, how many new showcases went live, how demand is moving city by city. Useful numbers to decide where to invest in acquisition.

White-label showcases

On the roadmap for Agency profiles: the showcases of the properties you manage, with the agency's logo and colours, without Keyo branding, and with the option to connect a custom domain.

Multi-user for the team

Up to five accounts linked to the same agency (coming soon), so whoever handles acquisition, whoever manages the listings and whoever replies to owners works on the same profile without sharing passwords.

Assisted onboarding

You don't start from scratch: we import the properties and the reviews from the OTAs together and set up the profile. The goal is to have a complete, presentable showcase in a day, not a month.

Keyo AI and early access

The plan includes Keyo AI, the assistant that writes bios and listing copy starting from your data, plus early access to new features as they roll out.

How it works

  1. Create the agency profile. The showcase is free: agency details, services, commissions and reviews imported from Airbnb and Booking, with the mini-site and QR code ready to go.
  2. Add areas and managed properties. With the Agency plan the profile covers every city you operate in, and the agency page shows your portfolio, your team and the areas you serve.
  3. Receive the contacts of owners in your area. Management requests published in your area reach Agency profiles first: reply, present your proposal and close the mandate.

Managing short-term rentals as an agency stays yours: contracts, commissions and operations don't go through Keyo. We bring the demand; you sign the mandate. You can see how the profiles look in the directory of property managers.

How much it costs

Agency plan
€89/month, VAT included

or €890/year — 2 months free

  • Multi-area presence in the directory and city pages
  • Priority on owner contacts
  • Featured placement (max 3 agencies per city)
  • Agency page with properties, team and areas
  • Monthly area report and Keyo AI
  • Assisted onboarding
See the plan on Pricing

No activation fee, cancel whenever you want. The full plan comparison is on the pricing page. For owners, Keyo is free, always.

Frequently asked questions

How can a real estate agency get into short-term rentals?

The most direct way is to start from management mandates: offering yourself to holiday home owners in your area as a professional property manager, with a management contract and transparent reporting. You need an online presence where owners can find and compare the agency: on Keyo the agency creates its showcase, appears in searches for its area and receives the management requests published by owners.

How do you find owners looking for a property manager for their holiday home?

Owners search online today: they compare reviews, services and commissions before choosing. On Keyo they publish the management request for their property directly, and the Agency profiles in the area receive these contacts as a priority. It's the reverse of word of mouth: it's the owner who comes forward.

What do you need to manage short-term rentals as an agency?

Beyond the operational structure (check-in, cleaning, listings on the OTAs), you need to meet the regulatory requirements: every property intended for short-term rentals must have the CIN, the National Identification Code, which belongs to the property (and therefore to the owner) and by law must be shown on every listing. On Keyo owners state the CIN directly in their management request.

In how many cities can an agency be visible on Keyo?

The Agency plan includes a multi-area presence: the profile appears in the directory and on the pages of the cities where the agency operates, without being limited to a single area. The Base and Pro plans, instead, cover a single area. Featured agencies are capped at three per city.

Does the Agency plan include a showcase for the properties?

Yes. Every Keyo profile includes the public mini-site with reviews imported from Airbnb and Booking, services, area covered and contacts. With the Agency plan the page becomes the agency's showcase — managed properties, team and areas — without the Keyo footer, and on the roadmap there's the white-label version with the agency's logo, colours and domain.

How much does Keyo's Agency plan cost?

The Agency plan costs €89 per month, VAT included, or €890 per year (two months free). There are no activation fees or commitments: the subscription can be cancelled at any time and the showcase stays active in the free version.

Take your agency where owners are looking.

The showcase is free and goes live in a few minutes. The Agency plan adds areas, priority on contacts and the dedicated page.

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