FOR LANDLORDS

WHAT VOIDS QUIETLY COST.

A four-week empty room doesn't cost you four weeks of rent. It costs roughly twice that, quietly. Put your numbers in. We'll show you the real figure.

01

YOUR PROPERTY

Five questions. Two minutes. No yield maths required.

Lettable rooms only. Don't count the kitchen or lounge.

All rooms combined, what you'd collect in a fully let month.

The highest-rent room in the property. Used to flag your worst-case void.

How long a room sits empty between tenants, on average. Don't know? UK average is around 21 days per HMO turnover. Use that.

Across the whole property, count the number of new tenancies that started in the last year. Don't know? A typical 5 to 7 bed HMO sees around 1 new tenancy per room per year. Use that as your starting estimate.

02

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03

YOUR RESULT

VOIDS ARE COSTING YOU, PER YEAR

£0

PER ROOM, PER YEAR

£0

YOUR MOST EXPENSIVE ROOM, ONE VOID

£0

WHAT MAKES UP THAT NUMBER

  • Lost rent during voids £0
  • Bills you keep paying on empty rooms £0
  • Marketing and re-let fees (£150 per turnover) £0
  • Deep clean and refresh between tenants (£150 per turnover) £0

THE HAINES BENCHMARK

IF VOIDS RAN AT OUR 1-DAY AVERAGE FILL

Based on March and April 2026 across our 10 HMOs in OX2, OX3 and OX4. The same maths with a one-day void instead of yours:

£0 recovered per year

This is what voids quietly cost a property. Most landlords never see it because they're looking at the rent that did come in, not the rent that didn't. The marketing costs hide in invoices. The continued bills hide in standing orders. The rent drop on the next tenancy hides in plain sight.

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