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Short-term rentals in St. Andrews

St. Andrews has 1,311 tracked short-term rental listings in myDataValue's November 2026 snapshot, 795 on Airbnb and 516 on Booking.com. That ranks it 53rd of 597 short-term rental markets across the United Kingdom, with 61% of its listings on Airbnb. 57% of supply is run by professional operators, above the median market's 41%, led by Short Stay St Andrews (406 listings). Counts are tracked public listings, not total supply.

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Tracked listings
1,311
Market rank
#53 / 597
National share
0.2%
Named professional operators
16

Airbnb vs Booking.com in St. Andrews

In St. Andrews, Airbnb leads with 795 listings (61%), versus 516 on Booking.com (39%).

Where the listings are in St. Andrews

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 1,311 tracked listings — open the full interactive report

Market structure in St. Andrews

Booking.com supply is more professionalised than Airbnb's: 69% of Booking.com listings sit with operators of that size, against 50% on Airbnb. The 16 named professional operators run 676 local listings between them, and the three largest — Short Stay St Andrews, Premier Stays Fife and Kingask Country Cottages — account for 81% of that. The other 76 listings run by operators with 26 or more listings belong to operators without a published profile.

Professional share
57%
Median market
41%
Single-listing hosts
20%

Listings by operator portfolio size

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

  • Single listing 262
  • 2–5 listings 182
  • 6–25 listings 115
  • 26+ (professional) 752

Listings by property type

Houses, cottages & holiday homes make up 55% of St. Andrews' classified listings, followed by Apartments & flats (35%).

  • Houses, cottages & holiday homes 712
  • Apartments & flats 456
  • B&Bs & guest houses 52
  • Private & shared rooms 39
  • Hotels & hostels 27
  • Unique & outdoor 19
  • Other 6

Largest operators in St. Andrews

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 St. Andrews, ranked by local tracked listings.
# Operator Listings Airbnb score Booking.com score Portfolio reviews
1 Short Stay St Andrews 406 4.73 / 5 8.7 / 10 12,262
2 Premier Stays Fife 74 4.73 / 5 8.3 / 10 602
3 Kingask Country Cottages 70 4.77 / 5 8.7 / 10 711
4 Cottages.com 50 4.77 / 5 9.0 / 10 221,687
5 Fife Cottages 19 4.82 / 5 10.0 / 10 170
6 holidaycottages.co.uk 12 4.73 / 5 8.8 / 10 82,888
7 Sykes Holiday Cottages 10 4.69 / 5 8.9 / 10 184,961
8 Travelnest Ltd 9 4.52 / 5 8.0 / 10 99,168
9 Clark Anderson Properties 7 4.83 / 5 9.0 / 10 4,505
10 Coorie Doon Stays 6 4.80 / 5 8.9 / 10 1,993

The other 6 professional operators in St. Andrews

Local listings

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

How St. Andrews compares

St. Andrews ranks 53rd 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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St. Andrews market FAQ

How many short-term rentals are in St. Andrews?

St. Andrews has 1,311 short-term rental listings as of November 2026: 795 on Airbnb and 516 on Booking.com.

Who is the largest short-term rental operator in St. Andrews?

The largest professional operator in St. Andrews is Short Stay St Andrews, with 406 local listings.

How professionalised is the St. Andrews short-term rental market?

57% of St. Andrews' listings (752 of 1,311) 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: 69% of Booking.com listings sit with operators of that size, against 50% on Airbnb. The 16 named professional operators run 676 local listings between them, and the three largest — Short Stay St Andrews, Premier Stays Fife and Kingask Country Cottages — account for 81% of that. The other 76 listings run by operators with 26 or more listings belong to operators without a published profile.

Is Airbnb or Booking.com bigger in St. Andrews?

In St. Andrews, Airbnb leads with 795 listings (61%), versus 516 on Booking.com (39%).

How many professional operators run listings in St. Andrews?

16 named professional operators run listings in St. Andrews. 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 1,311 public short-term rental listings in St. Andrews, 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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