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Short-term rentals in Looe

Looe has 1,149 tracked short-term rental listings in myDataValue's November 2026 snapshot, 723 on Airbnb and 426 on Booking.com. That ranks it 66th of 597 short-term rental markets across the United Kingdom, with 63% of its listings on Airbnb. 52% of supply is run by professional operators, above the median market's 41%, led by holidaycottages.co.uk (169 listings). Counts are tracked public listings, not total supply.

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Tracked listings
1,149
Market rank
#66 / 597
National share
0.2%
Named professional operators
14

Airbnb vs Booking.com in Looe

In Looe, Airbnb leads with 723 listings (63%), versus 426 on Booking.com (37%).

Where the listings are in Looe

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 1,149 tracked listings — open the full interactive report

Market structure in Looe

Booking.com supply is more professionalised than Airbnb's: 60% of Booking.com listings sit with operators of that size, against 48% on Airbnb. The 14 named professional operators run 449 local listings between them, and the three largest — holidaycottages.co.uk, Cottages.com and Sykes Holiday Cottages — account for 80% of that. The other 149 listings run by operators with 26 or more listings belong to operators without a published profile.

Professional share
52%
Median market
41%
Single-listing hosts
24%

Listings by operator portfolio size

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

  • Single listing 271
  • 2–5 listings 180
  • 6–25 listings 100
  • 26+ (professional) 598

Listings by property type

Houses, cottages & holiday homes make up 65% of Looe's classified listings, followed by Apartments & flats (20%).

  • Houses, cottages & holiday homes 751
  • Apartments & flats 229
  • Unique & outdoor 59
  • B&Bs & guest houses 57
  • Hotels & hostels 32
  • Private & shared rooms 20
  • Other 1

Largest operators in Looe

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 Looe, ranked by local tracked listings.
# Operator Listings Airbnb score Booking.com score Portfolio reviews
1 holidaycottages.co.uk 169 4.73 / 5 8.8 / 10 82,888
2 Cottages.com 103 4.77 / 5 9.0 / 10 221,687
3 Sykes Holiday Cottages 88 4.69 / 5 8.9 / 10 184,961
4 Toad Hall Cottages 33 4.76 / 5 8.8 / 10 857
5 Cornwall Hideaways 13 4.72 / 5 8.7 / 10 2,551
6 Travelnest Ltd 13 4.52 / 5 8.0 / 10 99,168
7 Cumbrian Cottage Holidays 10 4.87 / 5 9.1 / 10 77,518
8 Cornish Traditional Cottages 5 4.75 / 5 6.5 / 10 743
9 Finest Retreats 5 4.65 / 5 8.5 / 10 14,946
10 Interhome 4 4.70 / 5 8.5 / 10 4,430

The other 4 professional operators in Looe

Local listings

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

How Looe compares

Looe ranks 66th 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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Looe market FAQ

How many short-term rentals are in Looe?

Looe has 1,149 short-term rental listings as of November 2026: 723 on Airbnb and 426 on Booking.com.

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

The largest professional operator in Looe is holidaycottages.co.uk, with 169 local listings.

How professionalised is the Looe short-term rental market?

52% of Looe's listings (598 of 1,149) are run by operators with 26 or more listings, above the median of 597 markets across the United Kingdom (41%). Booking.com supply is more professionalised than Airbnb's: 60% of Booking.com listings sit with operators of that size, against 48% on Airbnb. The 14 named professional operators run 449 local listings between them, and the three largest — holidaycottages.co.uk, Cottages.com and Sykes Holiday Cottages — account for 80% 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 Looe?

In Looe, Airbnb leads with 723 listings (63%), versus 426 on Booking.com (37%).

How many professional operators run listings in Looe?

14 named professional operators run listings in Looe. 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 1,149 public short-term rental listings in Looe, 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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