Long-term or short-term? The real numbers for a Mauritius property
Every owner we meet has already done one calculation: what the property would fetch on a long-term lease. It is the number everyone knows, because an agent will quote it in a minute. The short-term number is harder to know, so most people guess it, and most people guess low.
Here is what our own portfolio says, with names left out and everything shown after platform commission and after management fees.
Two properties, side by side with their lease value
A villa on the west coast would rent long term for around Rs 110,000 a month. Managed short term, the same villa has paid its owner an average of about Rs 222,000 a month across almost three years. Roughly twice the lease, after every fee.
A resort-style villa in the south would fetch around Rs 250,000 long term. In its first year of short-term management, before the listing had even matured, it paid about Rs 362,000 a month. About 45% above the lease, in year one.
What the lease comparison usually forgets
The monthly figure is only half the story. A long-term tenant pays the electricity, the water and usually the wifi; short term, those stay with the owner. On the other side, a tenancy means giving up the house entirely: no December week with the family, no long weekend, and the condition you find it in at the end is the condition the tenant leaves. Short term, the owner keeps the calendar, the house is professionally cleaned dozens of times a year, and small problems are caught while they are small.
There is also the question nobody likes to ask about a lease: what happens when the tenant stops paying, and how long it takes to find out.
When long-term genuinely wins
Honesty helps here. A lease is the better tool when the owner needs a fixed contractual income for a bank, when the property sits far from what visitors come to Mauritius for, or when even a monthly statement is more involvement than wanted. Short term earns more in most coastal cases we manage, but it earns it as a range across seasons, not as one flat number.
Find out where your property lands
Two minutes each, both free. If you are considering short-term rental, the estimate shows what a property like yours could pay. If you already rent it out yourself, the Listing Check compares your last twelve months with well priced properties like yours.
What could it pay? → I already rent it out →
Figures come from the portfolio we manage, converted at Rs 54 per euro where needed. Indicative and non-contractual.