Founded in 1984, Schofields is a family run company specialising in holiday home insurance for properties in the UK, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Phil Schofield leads the marketing team and offers a wealth of industry knowledge to the Schofields blog and various online publications.
With over 10 experience managing holiday lets, Phil is an active member of the holiday letting and self-catering community, providing expert holiday letting advice, as well as essential holiday home marketing tips. His combination of insurance and marketing knowledge make him a key asset to the holiday rental industry.
Phil Schofield has been featured in The Telegraph, A Place In The Sun, The Daily Mail and many more!
To find out more about Schofields, check out the about us page.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Filling the booking calendar for your holiday rental property during high season and school holidays usually isn’t a problem. The challenge comes when you want to attract guests out of season and maximise the income from your holiday let business all year round. The good news is that there are plenty of ways of bringing in the bookings during the …
Reading Time: 5 minutes With the associated costs of holiday home ownership rising, there are an increasing number of holiday home owners turning to holiday letting as a means to generate income. Whilst the majority of property owners will market their rentals professionally, there are some owners who will steal your photos or website copy and pass them off as their own. Although it’s …
Reading Time: 7 minutes As any holiday property owner knows, holiday letting is a very competitive business and the gap between the number of enquiries you receive and the bookings secured is getting wider each year. The race to get firm bookings starts the moment you get an enquiry and doesn’t end until you’ve received a deposit and confirmed the dates on your …
Reading Time: 5 minutes One way of breaking free from the price war in the holiday letting industry is by adding more value to your rental than your competitors are offering, therefore helping yours to stand out from the crowd. Adding value to your holiday home means you can ask for higher rental rates, attract more guests and get a better selling price for …
Reading Time: 7 minutes If you rent out your holiday property for any length of time it’s somewhat inevitable that you will receive a guest complaint somewhere along the road. Regardless of the care you take over your property and quality of the service you give, you just cannot please all people all of the time. In today’s litigious society, it’s a sad fact …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hoteliers often report on items travellers take from hotel rooms, with toiletries and tea/coffee being the top items. However, this behaviour isn’t exclusive to hotels. Holiday home guests may not always be behaving within the rules of the law when staying in a holiday rental. When questionned, guests admit to ‘borrowing’ items from a holiday home they’ve stayed at in …
Reading Time: 2 minutes At the height of winter, the list of concerns that holiday cottage owners have about their property gets a little bit longer. Long nights already create security risks for unoccupied properties, but it is the drop in temperature that can potentially lead to the most damage. A burst water pipe doesn’t just mean the destruction of your possessions: any flood …
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