Beacon Living Group lists your Stockport home on Airbnb, Booking.com and our own website. We run the pricing, guests, cleaning and repairs while the booking income stays yours. Stepping Hill Hospital and the Mayoral Development Zone keep working guests arriving in the SK postcodes through every season. It is serviced accommodation and short-let management for owners who want the income without the work.
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Summary: Beacon Living Group manages Airbnbs in Stockport for owners from Heaton Chapel to Hazel Grove who want a short let run properly. We take care of the listings, the nightly rates, guest checks, turnarounds and repairs for a fee agreed in writing. The owner banks the booking income and covers the running costs. A fixed monthly rent is also available on selected properties.
Six jobs come off your list the day a Stockport property joins us. Here is what each one involves.
Your Stockport listing goes live on all three channels at once, written for the NHS staff and relocating professionals who search here. Guests who book on our own site pay far lower platform fees, which leaves more of each booking with you.
Rates follow demand around Stepping Hill, the airport and the town centre. We review them every day, because a midweek locum and a weekend family visit are worth different amounts.
Each guest's ID is checked before they receive the door code. We answer their questions too, so a nurse finishing a late shift can let themselves in without ringing you.
Turnarounds between Stepping Hill shift workers and weekend visitors are handled by our cleaners, with fresh linen every time. Each clean finishes with a condition check of the home.
A dripping tap in Edgeley or a boiler fault in Bramhall gets a contractor booked by us, not by you. Repairs are part of the running costs, so the invoice reaches you with a note of what was done.
Most Stockport family houses are let unfurnished. We choose, buy and assemble the furniture. You pay for it and it belongs to you.
Briar House sits a short drive west of Stockport in Sharston, Wythenshawe. Its owner, Antony, has had Beacon manage it since August 2026.
Beacon has paid me on time every single month and I’ve never had to chase a thing.
Weighing it up? Ask us for a call with Antony before you commit a Stockport property.
Briar House is the Beacon property we can name. It is in Wythenshawe rather than Stockport. See how we run it before you decide.
Four engines drive Stockport demand and none depends on holidays. They are a busy district hospital, an international airport, a town centre in the middle of a rebuild and a quick rail link to Manchester Piccadilly.
On management that spread is what you are paid from. When hospital rotations slow down, airport crews or regeneration teams tend to fill the gap.
The borough's housing helps as well. Bramhall, Cheadle Hulme and Marple hold larger family houses that suit contractor crews and relocating families. Edgeley, Cale Green and the town centre suit solo NHS staff and couples on placement.
Pictured: the kitchen at Briar House in Wythenshawe, a home we manage for its owner. A Stockport home would be fitted out to the same standard.
Six kinds of guest, each with its own rhythm. Together they are what a managed Stockport calendar is built on.
Rotating consultants, registrars, nurses and locums who want a kitchen and a quiet bedroom for a placement of several weeks.
Cheadle and Heaton Mersey sit between the M60 and the airport, which makes them an easy base for early starts.
Site engineers and specialist trades on the Mayoral Development Zone schemes, usually booked for months rather than nights.
People house-hunting around Heaton Moor, Cheadle Hulme or Bramhall while commuting to Piccadilly, before they commit to a tenancy.
Audit visits, training and secondments around Cheadle's business parks. Stays of a few weeks are common and repeat visits happen.
Households displaced by a flood or fire claim, or caught between a sale and a purchase, often need a furnished Stockport house for weeks.
Our fee is set after a strategic assessment of your Stockport property, because a Bramhall four-bed and an Edgeley flat cost very different amounts to run. You see the fee in writing before you sign.
Running costs are yours and are paid out of the booking income. Our guide for a three- or four-bedroom house in the borough:
A two-bedroom flat near Stockport station will usually come in below those numbers. Try the calculator with your own nightly rate and occupancy guess.
If four months pass with the property underperforming, one month's notice ends the agreement. That clause is there from the first day.
Send us the Stockport address. We look at the street, the bedrooms and who would book it, whether that is Stepping Hill staff or airport crews.
The fee, the running costs and your exit terms are written down before anything is signed. Show them to your solicitor if you like.
We buy and fit out the furniture at your expense, so it stays yours. Then the photographer visits and the listings go live.
Guests check in and we look after them and the house. Your income is paid monthly.
A tenant found by a high-street agent pays one rent and stays put. A managed short let earns night by night. Neither suits every Stockport owner, so here is the honest version.
| What changes | Long let through an agent | Beacon management |
|---|---|---|
| Income | A single monthly rent, fixed at the start | Nightly rates that rise when Stepping Hill and the airport are busy |
| Fees | Usually 10% to 15% of the rent | A fee agreed in writing, taken from booking income |
| Empty periods | Weeks with no rent while the agent re-lets | Gaps priced to fill, though slow weeks still cost you |
| Condition | Checked when the tenant moves out | Cleaned and checked after each guest |
| Who deals with guests | You, or the agent for a fee | Beacon, every message |
| Leaving | Bound by the notice rules in tenancy law | One month's notice after four months of underperformance |
| Renters' Rights Act | Covered by the full assured-tenancy rules | Short stays generally fall outside them |
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General information only, not legal or tax advice. Compare the routes in more depth.
New tenancy law and council rules both shape what you can do with a Stockport property. Here is where short stays sit.
Its private-renting reforms came into force on 1 May 2026, ending fixed-term Assured Shorthold Tenancies and Section 21 evictions in England.
A guest staying a few nights or weeks who has a home elsewhere is generally not an assured tenant. Longer stays need more thought, so get advice for your own case.
Our Renters' Rights Act guide covers the detail.
Each council sets its own licensing rules and they change. Before a Stockport home is listed, ask Stockport Council whether selective, additional or mandatory HMO licensing applies to your address.
A property that is or was let as a house in multiple occupation needs flagging early. Letting a whole home to guests all year can also raise a planning question, so we check that before any agreement is signed.
General information, not legal or tax advice. Confirm your own position with a solicitor or accountant before signing.
Some Stockport owners would rather swap the upside for a set figure. Guaranteed rent is also available on selected properties.
The Manchester guaranteed rent guide explains the trade-off in full. Read how much guaranteed rent pays in Manchester before you decide.
From the Heatons in the north to Hazel Grove and Marple in the south and east, we assess homes right across the borough.
It depends on the property, so the fee is agreed after a strategic assessment of your Stockport home and put in writing before you sign. Running costs are yours and come out of the bookings. For a three- or four-bedroom house, budget about £500 a month for bills, around £60 a clean, £30 to £50 a month for consumables and roughly 18.8% in platform fees, much less on direct bookings. Try the calculator.
Yes. We take the property on and relaunch it under the Beacon Living Group brand, so it carries our reviews and reputation rather than starting again. It also reaches the guests we already serve, including the contractor teams we work with. You keep the income and we run it from the day it switches over.
That covers listings on Airbnb, Booking.com and our own site, plus daily pricing tuned to demand from Stepping Hill, the airport and the town centre. It also covers ID checks, guest messages, self check-in, a clean with fresh linen after each stay and repairs booked with contractors. We buy and set up the furniture, which you pay for and own.
Most guests would be people in Stockport for work or a life change. Think Stepping Hill consultants and locums, airport staff on shifts, engineers on the town-centre regeneration, A34 corridor secondees, families relocating into the Heatons and households between homes. Each guest is ID verified and agrees to our house rules.
Guests pass an ID check first and agree to our house rules. Anyone booking direct authorises a £100 security hold near check-in. Bookings through a channel follow that platform's terms. Airbnb stays are covered by Airbnb's damage protection, subject to Airbnb's terms. Our cleaners check the house after every stay, so problems surface quickly. We arrange the repair and pursue the cost through the hold or the platform.
In most cases yes. Buy-to-let and residential mortgages commonly require written lender consent before short stays begin. If it is a leasehold flat, the freeholder may need to agree as well. Your buildings insurer should also be told, because a standard landlord policy may not cover paying guests. This is general information, not legal advice.
You may. Letting a whole home to short-stay guests all year can be a material change of use, depending on how it is used and on local policy. Ask Stockport Council's planning team or a planning adviser before the property is listed. This is general information, not legal advice.
Yes, plus our own website. Airbnb brings families and leisure guests, Booking.com brings many work travellers and direct bookings come from returning guests and companies. Direct bookings carry far lower platform fees.
Yes. After four months of underperformance you can end the agreement on one month's notice. That right is written into the agreement you read before signing.
If you want the booking income and the strong months, management fits. Your income will move with demand. If you would rather have one fixed figure, guaranteed rent fits. Beacon leases the property for three to five years on a corporate commercial lease, pays a fixed monthly rent and charges no fees on that route. We carry the voids, bills, council tax and maintenance. The rent is typically set below an agent's advertised rent. It is also available on selected properties.
Yes. That includes the town centre, Edgeley, Cheadle, Cheadle Hulme, the Heatons, Hazel Grove, Bramhall, Marple, Romiley, Bredbury, Woodley, Offerton, Davenport, Great Moor and Reddish. Any SK postcode is worth a conversation.
About Beacon Living Group. Beacon Living Group is a Manchester serviced accommodation operator. It runs landlords’ properties as serviced accommodation, where the owner keeps the income, and also offers guaranteed rent on 3- to 5-year corporate leases with a fixed monthly rent and no fees. Beacon Living Group Ltd is registered in England and Wales, company no. 17076795.
Send us the address. We will look at the street, the bedrooms and the guests it would attract, then put the fee and the running costs in writing.
The appraisal is free and carries no obligation.
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