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Short-term rentals in Ipswich

Ipswich is the 77th-largest of 597 short-term rental markets across the United Kingdom: 1,051 listings, 67% on Airbnb. 30% of supply is run by professional operators, below the median market's 39%, led by holidaycottages.co.uk (33 listings).

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Tracked listings
1,051
Market rank
#77 / 597
National share
0.2%
Named professional operators
24

Airbnb vs Booking.com in Ipswich

In Ipswich, Airbnb leads with 706 listings (67%), 2× the 345 on Booking.com (33%).

Where the listings are in Ipswich

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 1,051 tracked listings — open the full interactive report

Market structure in Ipswich

Booking.com supply is more professionalised than Airbnb's: 42% of Booking.com listings sit with operators of that size, against 24% on Airbnb. The 24 named professional operators run 164 local listings between them, and the three largest — holidaycottages.co.uk, Cottages.com and Sykes Holiday Cottages — account for 52% of that. The other 149 listings run by operators with 26 or more listings belong to operators without a published profile.

Professional share
30%
Median market
39%
Single-listing hosts
26%

Listings by operator portfolio size

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

  • Single listing 278
  • 2–5 listings 273
  • 6–25 listings 187
  • 26+ (professional) 313

Listings by property type

Houses, cottages & holiday homes make up 44% of Ipswich's classified listings, followed by Apartments & flats (23%).

  • Houses, cottages & holiday homes 459
  • Apartments & flats 243
  • Private & shared rooms 133
  • Unique & outdoor 76
  • Hotels & hostels 73
  • B&Bs & guest houses 66
  • Other 1

Largest operators in Ipswich

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 Ipswich, ranked by local tracked listings.
# Operator Listings Airbnb score Booking.com score Portfolio reviews
1 holidaycottages.co.uk 33 4.73 / 5 8.9 / 10 73,474
2 Cottages.com 31 4.77 / 5 9.0 / 10 217,587
3 Sykes Holiday Cottages 22 4.70 / 5 8.9 / 10 179,990
4 Stay in Suffolk 15 4.72 / 5 8.6 / 10 13,417
5 Norfolk Hideaways 13 4.75 / 5 9.0 / 10 4,767
6 Staycation Holidays 6 4.66 / 5 8.7 / 10 1,229
7 My Property Host 5 4.29 / 5 7.4 / 10 15,689
8 Port Isaac Bay Holidays 5 4.85 / 5 9.1 / 10 138,189
9 Host & Stay 4 4.57 / 5 8.3 / 10 59,134
10 Prohost Estates LTD 3 4.05 / 5 5.0 / 10 691

The other 14 professional operators in Ipswich

Local listings

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

How Ipswich compares

Ipswich ranks 77th 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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Ipswich market FAQ

How many short-term rentals are in Ipswich?

Ipswich has 1,051 short-term rental listings as of August 2026: 706 on Airbnb and 345 on Booking.com.

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

The largest professional operator in Ipswich is holidaycottages.co.uk, with 33 local listings.

How professionalised is the Ipswich short-term rental market?

30% of Ipswich's listings (313 of 1,051) 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: 42% of Booking.com listings sit with operators of that size, against 24% on Airbnb. The 24 named professional operators run 164 local listings between them, and the three largest — holidaycottages.co.uk, Cottages.com and Sykes Holiday Cottages — account for 52% of that. The other 149 listings run by operators with 26 or more listings belong to operators without a published profile.

Is Airbnb or Booking.com bigger in Ipswich?

In Ipswich, Airbnb leads with 706 listings (67%), 2× the 345 on Booking.com (33%).

How many professional operators run listings in Ipswich?

24 named professional operators run listings in Ipswich. 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 1,051 public short-term rental listings in Ipswich, 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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