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Short-term rentals in Plymouth

Plymouth has 1,818 tracked short-term rental listings in myDataValue's November 2026 snapshot, 1,148 on Airbnb and 670 on Booking.com. That ranks it 31st of 597 short-term rental markets across the United Kingdom, with 63% of its listings on Airbnb. 31% of supply is run by professional operators, below the median market's 41%, led by Pureserviced Ltd (111 listings). Counts are tracked public listings, not total supply.

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Tracked listings
1,818
Market rank
#31 / 597
National share
0.3%
Named professional operators
24

Airbnb vs Booking.com in Plymouth

In Plymouth, Airbnb leads with 1,148 listings (63%), versus 670 on Booking.com (37%).

Where the listings are in Plymouth

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 1,818 tracked listings — open the full interactive report

Market structure in Plymouth

Booking.com supply is more professionalised than Airbnb's: 36% of Booking.com listings sit with operators of that size, against 29% on Airbnb. The 24 named professional operators run 402 local listings between them, and the three largest — Pureserviced Ltd, Sykes Holiday Cottages and Cottages.com — account for 61% of that. The other 166 listings run by operators with 26 or more listings belong to operators without a published profile.

Professional share
31%
Median market
41%
Single-listing hosts
27%

Listings by operator portfolio size

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

  • Single listing 492
  • 2–5 listings 434
  • 6–25 listings 324
  • 26+ (professional) 568

Listings by property type

Houses, cottages & holiday homes make up 38% of Plymouth's classified listings, followed by Apartments & flats (36%).

  • Houses, cottages & holiday homes 682
  • Apartments & flats 662
  • Private & shared rooms 186
  • Hotels & hostels 113
  • B&Bs & guest houses 107
  • Unique & outdoor 67
  • Other 1

Largest operators in Plymouth

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 Plymouth, ranked by local tracked listings.
# Operator Listings Airbnb score Booking.com score Portfolio reviews
1 Pureserviced Ltd 111 4.64 / 5 8.4 / 10 6,184
2 Sykes Holiday Cottages 75 4.69 / 5 8.9 / 10 184,961
3 Cottages.com 58 4.77 / 5 9.0 / 10 221,687
4 Devon Holiday Lets Ltd 38 4.86 / 5 8.5 / 10 434
5 holidaycottages.co.uk 27 4.73 / 5 8.8 / 10 82,888
6 Rest Assured Properties 17 4.86 / 5 9.6 / 10 579
7 ALSENED LTD 16 3.38 / 5 6.4 / 10 153,888
8 Travelnest Ltd 13 4.52 / 5 8.0 / 10 99,168
9 Toad Hall Cottages 11 4.76 / 5 8.8 / 10 857
10 Finest Retreats 8 4.65 / 5 8.5 / 10 14,946

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

How Plymouth compares

Plymouth ranks 31st of 597 tracked markets in the United Kingdom, with 0.3% of tracked supply in this coverage. Markets of similar size:

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Plymouth market FAQ

How many short-term rentals are in Plymouth?

Plymouth has 1,818 short-term rental listings as of November 2026: 1,148 on Airbnb and 670 on Booking.com.

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

The largest professional operator in Plymouth is Pureserviced Ltd, with 111 local listings.

How professionalised is the Plymouth short-term rental market?

31% of Plymouth's listings (568 of 1,818) are run by operators with 26 or more listings, below the median of 597 markets across the United Kingdom (41%). Booking.com supply is more professionalised than Airbnb's: 36% of Booking.com listings sit with operators of that size, against 29% on Airbnb. The 24 named professional operators run 402 local listings between them, and the three largest — Pureserviced Ltd, Sykes Holiday Cottages and Cottages.com — account for 61% of that. The other 166 listings run by operators with 26 or more listings belong to operators without a published profile.

Is Airbnb or Booking.com bigger in Plymouth?

In Plymouth, Airbnb leads with 1,148 listings (63%), versus 670 on Booking.com (37%).

How many professional operators run listings in Plymouth?

24 named professional operators run listings in Plymouth. 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 1,818 public short-term rental listings in Plymouth, 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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