Let us manage Your Holiday Home
Owning and managing a holiday home in the Cotswold Water Park can be complex, time consuming and stressful.
Whether it’s marketing your property and managing bookings, arranging reliable cleaners for changeovers, ensuring maintenance issues are addressed quickly, or understanding your legal and compliance obligations, it isn’t for the faint hearted!
Having worked with holiday home owners in the Cotswold Water Park for over 27 years, we fully appreciate what this stunning area has to offer as well as the challenges of owning and letting out your property to holiday makers.
Orion Signature offers a premium, fully managed holiday home property service, honed by years of owner feedback, to enable you to sit back and enjoy the rewards of owning your holiday home with complete peace of mind that we have everything in hand.
Why Choose Orion?
We are local
Our team are all local and understand what makes the area such an amazing place.
Our locality means we can provide a truly hands on approach to managing your property.
Whether meeting your guests on arrival or dealing with any questions they have, to managing maintenance with local suppliers as well as visiting your property regularly for added security and peace of mind.
We are independent
As an independent, family run business we can offer a bespoke service that works for you, on your terms.
We don’t restrict how often you can stay in your own property, and aren’t limited by the constraints of larger companies.
We see each of our property owners as partners and would work proactively with you to reduce the time and stress involved in owning a holiday home.
We care
We pride ourselves in our strong values based on trust and transparency.
We will work proactively on your behalf and communicate with you regularly to ensure there aren’t any surprises.
We won’t make promises we can’t deliver and we will always look to the long term, rather than focus on short term wins, to protect your property, your guest bookings and your faith in us.
Flexible Management Services
Orion Signature
Our Premium, Fully Inclusive Service
Get complete piece of mind with no surprises and no hassle.
Just give us the keys, tell us where to send your income, and let us do the rest
Orion Promote
Our Light Touch, Marketing Only Service
Reduce your fees whilst benefitting from our marketing expertise and online exposure.
We generate and manage bookings leaving you to take care of the rest.
Orion Bespoke
Our Flexible Build your Own Service
Need more than just marketing but want to control your fees? Create your own service.
Select the elements you want us to take care of then cover the gaps yourself..
Interested to find out more?
Download our holiday home owners brochure to find out more about our range of flexible property management options.
Orion Concierge
Our Concierge Service offers something truly unique and lets you take advantage of our locality within the Cotswold Water Park.
Available to all holiday property owners within the Water Park, whether we manage your property or not, it helps to remove the stress and time managing certain aspects of your property at a distance.
A Pay As You Go Service where you can ask us to step in as your local, on-site partner when you need us to. Simply give us a call, tell us what you need and we will sort it out for you.
Don’t just take our word for it
Watch our holiday home owner videos and hear from them first hand their experience of working with us.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes we can. We offer an extensive onboarding service that covers everything you need to do as a holiday property owner from an initial lettings evaluation report to ensuring your legal obligations are fulfilled, undertaking any remedial work required to get your property ready for your first guests as well as extensive advice and support from our experienced team.
This service has been honed over 27 years of owner feedback and has a value of £975 + VAT but is free to all property owners that sign a management contract with us.
You can find out more about our onboarding service here.
We invest significantly in marketing our properties each year and will promote your property on our website, social media channels and extensive email database. In addition, to extend their reach further we also add all of our properties individually on the leading third-party booking portals.
Another key part of our marketing effort on your behalf is the obtaining of customer reviews for your property. We proactively request these from all guests and promote across all of our marketing activity as well as use the feedback to improve the service we provide or the experience that guests receive.
Unfortunately we can’t. Our fee represents the premium service provided in our Orion Signature Service, honed over 27 years, and we know our owners all feel that it represents good value for money.
We understand that we won’t be the right fit for every owner and aren’t trying to be. We are looking to build long-term relationships with like-minded owners based on trust and transparency.
As such we don’t offer cheaper headline rates just to win new business and then find we can’t meet guest booking numbers, or, increase rates on your property after the initial period. For us, it’s more important that we make sure we deliver on what we’ve promised from the start, and you are happy with the service we provide.
That being said, we do try to offer owners choice which is why we offer our Orion Promote and Orion Bespoke services – please contact us for more information about how these might work for you.
You can find out more about our management service and the benefits we bring here.
Many of our current owners started out by managing their property themselves. From the feedback we’ve had the following are just some of the benefits they have received from moving the management to us:
-No longer feeling stressed about managing the considerable aspects involved in managing a holiday let.
-Gaining back time that was spent on dealing with bookings, guest queries and managing suppliers.
-Peace of mind that they are up to date with legislation and the compliance elements of letting out their property
-Having a trusted “eye on the ground” to ensure their holiday home is well looked after
-Dealing only with 1 point of contact rather than multiple suppliers
-Being able to get local, trusted contractors to undertake work on their property when they need it.
-Not having to be on site to greet guests, contractors or wait for deliveries
-Receiving an expert, hassle fee service, regular timely payments and complete peace of mind that everything is being managed professionally.
-No late-night phone calls from guests about problems with the property or how to use the TV remote!
-Being supported by a friendly and experienced team
-Enjoying their holiday home themselves as and when they want
You can hear directly from some of our owners about their experiences by watching our Owner Testimonial videos.
We look to achieve an occupancy rate of between 70 and 80% as this provides the optimum return for our owners by balancing income generated against their expenses incurred to maintain their property to the required standard.
Our aim is to rent out your property as little as possible for as much as possible.
