Your home in Cannigione, let outside August too
In Cannigione we are seeking village houses and apartments facing the Gulf of Arzachena, between the marina, the promenade and the streets behind the seafront. We assess every property before confirming management. For accepted homes, we provide listing on 50+ portals, dynamic pricing, 24/7 guest support during stays, cleaning and paperwork. Our fee is a percentage of revenue, with no fixed costs.
- Coverage
- Cannigione and the inner shore of the Gulf of Arzachena, looked after with suppliers and partners who work in Gallura all year round.
- Model
- a single percentage of revenue: no monthly fee, no hidden costs.
- Distribution
- 50+ portals (Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, HomeToGo) with a channel manager, dynamic pricing and 24/7 guest support during stays in 5 languages.
- Published historical range
- +30% to +140% on revenue versus the owner's previous self-management; not an average or guarantee.
5 stars on Google · 4.7 on Airbnb · 9.4 on Booking.com
Owners in Cannigione usually open the house in July, use it for a fortnight and shut it again in September. That is a shame, because this is one of the few parts of Gallura where the calendar also fills up before and after the peak. We take the whole thing off your hands: listing, pricing, guests, cleaning, paperwork. You get the bank transfer and the monthly report, and you pay a percentage only on what the home has actually earned.
How much it can earn, and how many portals it reaches
In Cannigione the right question is not how much the mid-August week earns, because that one sells anyway: it is how many weeks around it you manage to sell. Here the annual total is made in June and September, and that is where you see the gap between a home that is managed and a home left on one portal with the same rate from May to October. What yours takes in then depends on very material things: how many people it sleeps comfortably, how close it is to the marina and the shops, whether it has air conditioning and outdoor space that is usable in the evening. Which is why we do not quote figures from a distance: we come and look, then tell you where it sits.
Distribution, on the other hand, is the same for every home we manage. We list on Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, HomeToGo and more than 50 portals, with a channel manager keeping calendars in sync and double bookings impossible. It matters more than average here: plenty of Italian families search on Airbnb, but a sizeable share of the people who book the Gulf of Arzachena arrive from Booking.com and from foreign portals, and on a single channel you never even see that demand. On top sits dynamic pricing, updating each night's rate according to how close the date is and how full the village is: it pushes up on contested days, and in shoulder weeks it comes down just enough to sell them rather than leave them empty.
What we do instead of you
Paperwork: we apply for the National Identification Code (CIN), register the property with the Sardinia regional system, handle notifications to the authorities and check the safety requirements set by short-let regulations (gas and carbon monoxide detectors, fire extinguishers). We collect and pay the Arzachena municipal tourist tax, with its deadlines. Short lets are eligible for the flat-rate tax (cedolare secca: 21% on one unit of your choice and 26% on the second; from 2026, letting more than two flats short-term is presumed to be a business activity): if we collect on your behalf, we apply the withholding and issue the Certificazione Unica, so nothing is left on your plate. For your specific situation we always recommend consulting an accountant.
Guests: during active stays, we reply around the clock in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German, and handle check-in even when a family arrives late after the ferry or a flight into Olbia. With family groups most of the work is practical questions, from a high chair to parking to the right beach for a three-year-old: fast answers here turn into reviews. Cleaning: a scheduled team at every departure, with a linen kit and a check on what is missing or broken. Routine maintenance and care of the outdoor spaces with local tradespeople. Optimisation: professional photography, some furnishing fixes and a listing written for people travelling with children, because a generic description does not convert with this audience.
No fixed fees: just a percentage of revenue
Our fee is a percentage of revenue. There are no fixed fees, monthly subscriptions or hidden costs. In Cannigione, where much of the margin lies in filling the less obvious weeks, this keeps the work focused on pricing and demand throughout the season. We set the percentage after the survey, based on how much work the home needs.
Published historical range
Propertize publishes a historical portfolio range of +30% to +140% versus the owner's previous management; it is neither an average nor a guarantee. In total we have generated over 1 million in revenue for owners and look after 90+ properties across Sardinia, Lombardy and Sicily, with 5.0 on Google. The work combines broader distribution, prices reviewed daily and careful stay management. Actual performance depends on the home, location and season and is assessed before signing.
What actually changes if you own a home in Cannigione
Cannigione does not face the open sea: it sits inside the Gulf of Arzachena, and that changes everything. The water here is calm and sheltered, the seabed stays shallow for a good distance and the wind is felt far less than on the exposed coast. For an adult that is a detail; for a family with a two or three-year-old it is the reason they pick this village and not another. For an owner it means your typical guest is not the traveller passing through for two nights: it is a household staying a week or two, bringing the pushchair, cooking at home and happily coming back the following year if the stay went well.
The most useful consequence shows up in the calendar. Families with small children are not tied to school terms in the same way, and above all they deliberately look for the months with fewer people: demand here also moves in June and September, when the sheltered water is still, or already, enjoyable. Compared with the average for nearby resorts the season runs a little longer, and for an owner those extra weeks are the part that genuinely changes the yearly total. They are also the first weeks you lose if the price is never updated or the home is published on a single portal.
Then there is the marina, which gives Cannigione a role the neighbouring villages do not have: it is one of the bases people leave from for trips to the Maddalena archipelago. Anyone booking a day on the water wants to sleep near the departure point, and in a listing the walking distance to the marina is worth as much as the view. So is the plain fact of having shops, restaurants and the promenade within reach: a home close to the centre lets a family leave the car parked for days. If you want the wider picture of the area, see how we work in the Costa Smeralda and in Gallura and Olbia.
House care, without letting
In Cannigione a good many houses are family second homes, used in July and August and then closed. The risk is not lost income: it is finding in June a problem that started in November.
So we provide house care on its own, with no letting: seasonal opening and closing, checks, pool, garden, villa maintenance. We describe it on the villa care page.
What to ask a property manager before handing over a home in Cannigione
For a mid-range home in a family village you do not need the most famous manager: you need the one who does the boring things properly. Before signing, check these points:
- How they set up June and September. If the answer is "same rate as summer", they are giving up the most profitable part of your season.
- Where their pay comes from. A fixed fee you pay even with an empty calendar; a percentage you pay only once the home is sold.
- How many channels they really use, and whether those channels talk to each other. One portal, in an area with heavy foreign demand, is a limit.
- Who is on the ground between one guest and the next, and how fast they get there if something breaks in high summer.
- Who takes on the CIN, the regional system and the Arzachena tourist tax, and what happens if a deadline slips.
- What they show you each month: nights sold, income, costs, reviews. If it is not written down, you cannot check it.
| What | If you handle it | With Propertize |
|---|---|---|
| June and September | calendar almost always empty | rates built for shoulder-season family demand |
| Sales channels | one listing on one portal | 50+ portals linked by a channel manager |
| Rate | a single price for the whole summer | price reviewed day by day |
| Foreign guests | you reply as best you can, when you can | 24/7 assistance during active stays in five languages |
| Cleaning and linen | last-minute phone calls | shifts scheduled with local suppliers |
| CIN and tourist tax | yours, deadline by deadline | handled by us, withholding and Certificazione Unica included |
| Costs | fixed fees, subscriptions and your time | just a percentage of revenue |
Want to know what your Cannigione home could earn? Ask for the free valuation: we come and see it and tell you how we would set up the season. See also how we present family holiday homes in Sardinia.
