For owners weighing up whether to hand a home over. If your question is not here, ask us directly.
Niche Stays manages homes in Egypt as short-term rentals. We prepare the home, list it on Airbnb and the other booking platforms, handle pricing and host the guests. The owner earns from it without running it.
Neither. Niche Stays is a short-term rental operator: we take homes on and run them ourselves. We are not a marketplace, and we are not a broker finding you a tenant.
Niche Stays works across Egypt. Cairo is the focus, and we take homes across the whole of Greater Cairo. Outside Cairo we take homes on the North Coast and in Ain Sokhna.
Owners are paid monthly, on terms agreed for their specific home before anything is signed. Niche Stays models the home first, so the terms reflect what it can realistically earn.
Niche Stays sets terms per home, and only after modelling it. We forecast occupancy and revenue for that specific home before anything is signed, so both sides go in with the same expectations. There is no standard rate.
It is agreed deal by deal. If the home is already furnished, there is nothing to add. If it is empty, Niche Stays arranges the furnishing, and either funds it ourselves or furnishes it at the owner's cost, depending on the agreement. Which of the two applies is settled before anything is signed.
It depends on the arrangement. Where Niche Stays leases the home from the owner, we pay the electricity, water, gas, internet and the building's monthly fees for as long as the lease runs. Where we are not leasing it, the utilities stay with the owner. Anything owed from before the agreement starts stays with the owner either way.
Nothing, once the agreement is signed. Preparation, listing, pricing, guest communication, housekeeping and maintenance are handled by the Niche Stays team. The owner receives monthly income and is not involved in running the home.
Niche Stays takes on homes that sit idle, are under-let, or earn less than they should, usually because running them properly is more work than the owner wants. Furnished, part-furnished and unfurnished all work.
It depends on the home and on who runs it. Short-term letting usually earns more per night than a long let, but only if occupancy, pricing and turnover are managed properly. Niche Stays models the specific home first.
Yes. Housekeeping runs between every stay, the contents are recorded on a signed inventory at handover, and maintenance is handled by the Niche Stays team rather than passed back to the owner.
Yes. Owner stays are agreed in advance and blocked in the calendar so no guest booking is taken over them. How many nights, and how they affect the month's income, is set in the agreement.
Niche Stays handles it. Guests are screened before arrival, the booking platforms carry their own damage cover, and anything beyond that is repaired by our team.
That is fine. Niche Stays can agree terms now and start on the date the current tenancy ends, so the home moves from one arrangement to the next without sitting empty in between.
Fill in the enquiry form with the home's area, size and furnishing. It takes about a minute, and Niche Stays follows up on WhatsApp.
Niche Stays replies to every enquiry. We look at the home's area, size and furnishing, model what it can do as a short-term rental, and come back with terms built around it.
Still have a question?
Ask it in the enquiry form and we will answer it directly, or email us.