How this register is built

What this desk records about every management company and host tool, where each field comes from, and what it does not claim to have tested.

What is recorded, and what is not

This page exists so that nothing on this site has to be taken on trust. The register behind the shortlists records facts companies publish about themselves and facts this desk can check from the outside. It does not record measurements we did not take.

For a management company the register holds: the company name, its own word for its service model, the head office location, the markets it says it covers, a size tier and its website. For a host tool: the tool name, its category, whether it needs a property management system, the pricing the vendor publishes, and a one-line verdict.

Where a company lists across many channels, we read its own account of those short-term rental platforms rather than counting logos on a homepage.

The register today

231 management companies recorded.
74 host software tools recorded, tracked separately from the companies.
181 companies describe themselves as full service, 21 as co-hosts, 29 as something else.
Every company entry carries a head office and the markets the company claims.

How an entry gets in

1 The company is found: through an owner asking about it, a market search, or a listing that names its manager.
2 The facts are taken from the company’s own pages first — service model, markets, head office — because that is what it is willing to stand behind in public.
3 Anything the company does not publish is left empty rather than estimated. An empty field is information; a guess in the same column is not.
4 The entry is placed in the order, which is a reading of those facts and of this desk’s own operating experience.
5 The entry is written up when there is something to say beyond the row.

What this desk does not claim

We do not audit financial statements, and we do not verify revenue claims.
We do not inspect properties, and no rating here reflects a site visit.
We do not check licences or permits company by company; where a market requires one, that is a question for you to ask.
We do not test every tool in the software list hands-on. Where a verdict is based on use rather than documentation, it says so in the entry.

When an entry is looked at again

An entry is revisited when the company changes what it publishes — a new service model, a new market, a change of ownership — or when an owner tells us the row is wrong.

One honest gap: the register does not yet carry a per-entry date of last check, so this page cannot tell you how fresh a given row is. Adding that date is the next change to the register, and until it is there, treat every row as a starting point for your own questions.

Why there is no score

A single number would suggest a measurement that has not been made. The register carries a position in an order, which is an opinion built on recorded facts, and the facts are on the row so you can disagree with the order.

Version

This page describes how the register is built as of August 2026. When the method changes, this page changes with it.

Some outbound links on this page are commercial. Placement in the register is not for sale. One Fine BnB, the entry ranked first in this register, is connected to the publisher of this site. It is named here rather than left for the reader to discover.