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Short-term rentals in Harrogate

Harrogate is the 69th-largest of 597 short-term rental markets across the United Kingdom: 1,101 listings, 59% on Airbnb. 28% of supply is run by professional operators, below the median market's 39%, led by holidaycottages.co.uk (74 listings).

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Tracked listings
1,101
Market rank
#69 / 597
National share
0.2%
Named professional operators
13

Airbnb vs Booking.com in Harrogate

In Harrogate, Airbnb leads with 652 listings (59%), versus 449 on Booking.com (41%).

Where the listings are in Harrogate

The dots are a representative sample of tracked short-term rentals — Airbnb in red and Booking.com in blue. Zoom and pan to explore the market, or open the full report for filters, operator overlays, and the listing-level view.

Airbnb Booking.com 250 sampled locations from 1,101 tracked listings — open the full interactive report

Market structure in Harrogate

Booking.com supply is more professionalised than Airbnb's: 35% of Booking.com listings sit with operators of that size, against 22% on Airbnb. The 13 named professional operators run 178 local listings between them, and the three largest — holidaycottages.co.uk, Sykes Holiday Cottages and Cottages.com — account for 71% of that. The other 127 listings run by operators with 26 or more listings belong to operators without a published profile.

Professional share
28%
Median market
39%
Single-listing hosts
30%

Listings by operator portfolio size

Tracked listings grouped by how many properties their operator runs — from single hosts to 26+ professionals.

  • Single listing 331
  • 2–5 listings 261
  • 6–25 listings 204
  • 26+ (professional) 305

Listings by property type

Apartments & flats make up 51% of Harrogate's classified listings, followed by Houses, cottages & holiday homes (32%).

  • Apartments & flats 564
  • Houses, cottages & holiday homes 349
  • Private & shared rooms 65
  • B&Bs & guest houses 58
  • Hotels & hostels 36
  • Unique & outdoor 27
  • Other 2

Largest operators in Harrogate

Ranked by local tracked listings across Airbnb and Booking.com. Scores and portfolio review totals are aggregated across each operator's tracked United Kingdom listings. Together, the table and directory cover every professional operator we track in this market.

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Largest operators in Harrogate, ranked by local tracked listings.
# Operator Listings Airbnb score Booking.com score Portfolio reviews
1 holidaycottages.co.uk 74 4.73 / 5 8.9 / 10 73,474
2 Sykes Holiday Cottages 29 4.70 / 5 8.9 / 10 179,990
3 Cottages.com 24 4.77 / 5 9.0 / 10 217,587
4 Pass the Property 17 4.61 / 5 7.7 / 10 4,652
5 Host & Stay 12 4.57 / 5 8.3 / 10 59,134
6 KIST Accommodates 6 4.76 / 5 9.0 / 10 831
7 Cumbrian Cottage Holidays 5 4.87 / 5 9.1 / 10 78,520
8 Finest Retreats 4 4.64 / 5 8.5 / 10 13,960
9 Luxury Cottages 2 4.89 / 5 9.3 / 10 2,454
10 Travelnest Ltd 2 4.56 / 5 8.0 / 10 95,073

The other 3 professional operators in Harrogate

Local listings

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Operators enter the index after reaching 26 listings across the United Kingdom and count Harrogate among their markets. See the full interactive Harrogate market report for additional filters and operator comparisons.

How Harrogate compares

Harrogate ranks 69th of 597 tracked markets in the United Kingdom, with 0.2% of tracked supply in this coverage. Markets of similar size:

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Harrogate market FAQ

How many short-term rentals are in Harrogate?

Harrogate has 1,101 short-term rental listings as of August 2026: 652 on Airbnb and 449 on Booking.com.

Who is the largest short-term rental operator in Harrogate?

The largest professional operator in Harrogate is holidaycottages.co.uk, with 74 local listings.

How professionalised is the Harrogate short-term rental market?

28% of Harrogate's listings (305 of 1,101) are run by operators with 26 or more listings, below the median of 597 markets across the United Kingdom (39%). Booking.com supply is more professionalised than Airbnb's: 35% of Booking.com listings sit with operators of that size, against 22% on Airbnb. The 13 named professional operators run 178 local listings between them, and the three largest — holidaycottages.co.uk, Sykes Holiday Cottages and Cottages.com — account for 71% of that. The other 127 listings run by operators with 26 or more listings belong to operators without a published profile.

Is Airbnb or Booking.com bigger in Harrogate?

In Harrogate, Airbnb leads with 652 listings (59%), versus 449 on Booking.com (41%).

How many professional operators run listings in Harrogate?

13 named professional operators run listings in Harrogate. The full roster is listed on this page, and the interactive market report maps every listing.

About this data

Figures come from myDataValue's cross-platform market snapshot of 1,101 public short-term rental listings in Harrogate, matching Airbnb and Booking.com supply to the operators who run it. Operators enter the index after reaching 26 listings on Airbnb or Booking.com across the United Kingdom. Snapshot dates: Airbnb , Booking.com .

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