"The number of homes advertised on Airbnb and Vrbo has increased by a third (34pc) in the past year, according to AirDNA, an analyst. Despite a shortage of rental properties in large cities, holiday lets are gaining the most popularity there. The biggest surge has been in Liverpool, where listings are up two thirds (63pc)."

Read on to learn about how the UK government has proposed a new set of rules aimed at targeting landlords and second homeowners who are using their properties as holiday rentals.

‘I trebled my buy-to-let income by switching to a holiday let – here's how you can still do it’ (The Telegraph)

Holiday lets have boomed, but a fresh crackdown threatens to spoil the party Drawn by tax breaks, bigger profits and a boom in staycations, thousands of traditional buy-to-let landlords have been converting their homes to holiday lets.