Holiday let finance in the East of England

Around a fifth of the East of England lies below mean sea level, and the region includes the lowest point in the country at Holme in Cambridgeshire. We arrange the full range of holiday let and serviced accommodation finance across the East of England, from the holiday let mortgages and serviced accommodation mortgages that buy and hold a short-let property to the bridging, conversion and development finance behind a refurbishment, a barn conversion or a change-of-use scheme. Short-term-rental market data is published at national and regional level by the Sykes Staycation Index, AirDNA and VisitBritain, so the figures above are attributed to their sources, while the housing-transaction figure is genuinely local Land Registry data for the towns we track.

The South East and East combine the deepest domestic short-break catchment in the UK with a string of premium coastal and rural-let markets, on indicative average daily rates around £185 and occupancy in the low 60s (AirDNA 2025). Weekend and short-break demand from London underpins year-round trade in resorts like Whitstable, Brighton and Southwold, while the New Forest and north Norfolk trade as genuine destination markets. We arrange holiday let mortgages, conversion and refurbishment finance and portfolio facilities across the region, and lender appetite for quality coastal stock here is among the deepest in the country.

What drives the East of England holiday let market:

• the largest domestic short-break catchment in the country on London's doorstep
• established coastal resorts from Whitstable and Margate to Brighton, Chichester harbour and the Isle of Wight
• the Norfolk and Suffolk coast and broads, and the New Forest, as honeypot rural-let markets

Benchmark figures from AirDNA, UK Short-Term Rental Outlook; Sykes Holiday Cottages, Staycation Index 2025. Regional commentary draws on AirDNA (UK Short-Term Rental Outlook, 2025); Sykes Holiday Cottages (Staycation Index, 2025).