If your Hobart property is as much a holiday home as it is an income asset, you need a manager who understands both sides of that.
Retreats Tasmania looks after vacation properties across Hobart and Southern Tasmania for owners who list their place between their own stays, want it guest-ready without the back-and-forth of DIY scheduling, and expect full transparency on what's earned and what's spent. Julie and Jason Batey run the business themselves, with an in-house team handling the day-to-day.
Managing a vacation property is a slightly different job to managing a straight investment rental. There's a calendar to juggle, since the property needs to be genuinely available to you as well as to guests. There's a changeover to manage every time you arrive or leave, on top of the usual guest turnovers. And there's often a personal attachment to how the place looks and feels that a purely commercial rental doesn't carry.
Retreats Tasmania handles listing creation and professional photography, guest communication and bookings, cleaning and changeovers between every stay, pricing that reflects Hobart's seasonal demand, and the maintenance and upkeep that keeps the property in the condition you'd want to walk back into yourself.
The main difference between vacation property management and standard short-stay management is the calendar. Owners typically block out their own stays in advance, and bookings are managed around those dates rather than the property being treated as continuously available. Julie and Jason work directly with owners to keep this simple, so you're not chasing anyone to free up a weekend or explaining your plans twice.
Because you're also using the property yourself, consistency matters more here than it would on a straight investment rental. If the presentation slips between your own visits, you're the one who notices first. Julie and Jason run Retreats Tasmania as a locally owned, husband-and-wife business, not a franchise, with an in-house cleaning team rather than a rotating list of contractors, so the same standard applies whether it's you walking in the door or a guest. That consistency comes from more than 25+ years of management experience and over 30+ years in tourism and hospitality.
If your property is listed primarily through Airbnb, our Airbnb property management Hobart service covers the platform-specific side of things alongside your own use of the property.
Coverage runs from Hobart's CBD and inner suburbs out through to the Tasman Peninsula and Huon Valley, giving owners across Southern Tasmania access to the same hands-on management.
Onboarding starts with a straightforward assessment of your property and how you want to use it, including how often you plan to stay there yourself. From there, Retreats Tasmania sets up the listing, arranges professional photography, and takes over guest communication, cleaning, and pricing. You get visibility on bookings and earnings throughout, with Julie and Jason on hand directly rather than a support ticket queue.
Vacation property management is the day-to-day running of a holiday home that's rented out to guests while the owner also uses it personally from time to time, covering bookings, cleaning, guest communication, and pricing around the owner's own stays.
Yes. Owners block out their own dates in advance and Retreats Tasmania manages bookings around those periods, so your property stays available to you as well as to guests.
The core service is the same as our broader property management Hobart, cleaning, guest communication, pricing, and maintenance, but vacation property management is built around a calendar that includes the owner's own use of the property, not just continuous guest availability.
Retreats Tasmania manages vacation properties from Hobart's CBD and inner suburbs out through to the Tasman Peninsula and Huon Valley.
All fees are built into the nightly rate, so there's nothing owners pay upfront.
Retreats Tasmania is a locally owned and operated Hobart property management business run by Julie and Jason Batey, with an in-house cleaning team rather than a rotating list of contractors. That matters for end of lease work specifically, since the same trained team is accountable for the result, not a subcontractor booked once and never seen again.
Every quote is transparent, with pricing built into the cost upfront and no surprise add-ons once the job is done. The team brings more than 25+ years of property management and cleaning experience across Hobart and Southern Tasmania.
If you need your Hobart rental cleaned to a bond-ready standard, contact us for a transparent quote.