Should you hand your apartment to a short-term rental operator? There are two things to weigh: money and time. We calculated the earnings below on three real apartments in the same complex in the very centre of Gda\u0144sk, which over the same year worked in three different models: short stays only, a tenant in autumn and short stays for the rest of the year, and one tenant for the whole year. We count time separately, because it is usually what decides: an owner who runs the apartment alone will earn more, but also answers the phone, organises the cleaning and drives over when something breaks. An operator charges a fee for this and in return gives you peace of mind, punctual settlements and a head free of the apartment.<\/p>\n
A four-person apartment on short stays only earned its owner PLN 47,534 in twelve months, after paying VAT, platform commissions and the operator\u2019s 20% commission on income. Another apartment in the same building had one tenant for the whole year, who paid PLN 4,500 a month from September to May and PLN 9,000 in summer; on the same terms it would have earned about PLN 50,000. In the third, a tenant lived there from September to mid-December, and then the apartment went back to short stays: the winter was almost empty, the summer strong, and the year closed at PLN 36,576. In return for the commission, you did not take a single call from a guest all year, did not organise a single cleaning and received twelve transfers with a report by the 10th of each month. Whether it pays off depends on what your hour is worth and whether you want the apartment for yourself whenever you feel like it.<\/p>\n
The operator takes over the apartment and runs it like a small hotel: sets prices every day, lists the offer on booking platforms and its own website, takes bookings and collects payments from guests, handles all contact with guests from the first question to check-out, cleans and does the laundry after every stay, fixes minor faults and once a month transfers the amount due to the owner with a report. At Apartmore you pay one commission for all of this: 20% of income, meaning the amount after VAT and the platform commission, with no upfront fees or subscription, an open-ended contract and a 30-day notice period. We describe the whole process step by step in how a short-term rental operator works<\/a>, and the terms in our short-term rental management price list<\/a>.<\/p>\n All three are apartments in the same complex on Granary Island, managed by us, for the period from September 2025 to August 2026; the first one sleeps four. As always with such figures: the result depends on location, size, standard, furnishings and parking, so treat them as a reference point, not a promise. The amounts \u201cfor the owner\u201d in all three columns, including the monthly tenant, are calculated the same way as in our settlements: after 8% VAT, after booking platform commissions and after our 20% commission on income. They do not yet include the fixed costs of the apartment, that is the building service charge and utilities. With short stays the owner pays them. With a monthly tenant they are usually covered by a flat fee in the tenancy agreement, but the final split depends on that agreement. You will find the full month-by-month table for the first apartment in how much you can earn from an apartment in central Gda\u0144sk<\/a>.<\/p>\nThree apartments, one year, three models<\/h2>\n