For owners of property inside Venice
Zen Accommodations takes Venetian apartments on a 4+4 or 3+2 contract, or runs them for you. Sixteen years on the island, twenty-plus units under management, one company signing the contract instead of a stranger.
No fee to ask. We look at the flat, tell you what it earns, and you decide.
Venice, the mainland and Florence in September 2026
We read every rental advertisement live on the historic centre this month — 265 of them, across the two national portals. Only 32 were offered on an ordinary residential contract. Ninety-two were transitorio. The rest were student lets, short stays, or said nothing at all. We then did the same on the mainland: of 183 Mestre and Marghera advertisements, fourteen declare an ordinary long contract — 7.7%, against 19% of the 179 island advertisements on the same portal. Florence reads differently again: of 1,052 advertisements across the historic centre, 230 declare a 4+4, a 3+2 or a canone libero — 22%, nearly three times the island figure.
Owners have stopped offering 4+4 and 3+2 because of who might sign it. That is the part we take off the table.
Contract type as declared by the agency, immobiliare.it, all six sestieri plus the Giudecca.
Contract type as declared by the agency, immobiliare.it, Mestre and Marghera, read 13 September 2026.
Contract type as declared by the agency, immobiliare.it, Centro macrozone, read 14 September 2026.
Two ways to work with us
Both start the same way: we come and look at it, and we tell you what it earns.
Zen Accommodations signs a 4+4 or 3+2 as the tenant and pays you a fixed rent every month, for the whole term.
You keep the property and the income. We operate it — listings, guests, cleaning, compliance — for a management fee.
Why owners hand us the keys
Our own team maintains and cleans it throughout the term. Condition is recorded at handover and checked at return.
On a lease you are paid the same amount in February as in September. The occupancy risk sits with us, not with you.
Registered contract, guarantees, insurance and — on a 3+2 — the territorial agreement certification, all prepared before anyone signs.
A broken boiler, a lost key, a neighbour complaint: it reaches our phone, not yours. Our own people are minutes away, not a call centre in another province.
A monthly statement, and on management the live calendar and rates. Nothing about your property is hidden from you.
Zen started as one small apartment in Venice. Every property we run is inside the historic centre, and so are we.
From first call to first payment
Address, size, condition, whether it is furnished. Five minutes on the phone or the form below.
We walk the property, check what it needs, and come back with a figure and the contract type that suits it best.
Written terms, with your notary or your accountant if you want them. Nothing is signed on the first visit.
Registration, handover inventory, utilities, and the first rent on the agreed date.
Who you would be signing with
We began with one small apartment and now manage more than twenty units inside the main island — fifteen rooms across five houses, let through Booking.com and Airbnb and through our own site. Everything we run, we run in Venice. We are not a franchise and not a letting portal: the person who signs your contract is the person who answers the phone.
Free benchmark · updated 13 September 2026
Every flat currently advertised on a 4+4, a 3+2 or a canone libero whose advertisement does not forbid sub-letting — 237 of them across the Venice historic centre, Mestre, Marghera and Florence, newest first. Note how long some have been sitting there: a listing is not a letting. Use it to see where your own property sits before you talk to anyone, including us.
We share it with the owners we are talking to. Enter your access code to see the 21 long leases advertised on the island right now.
No code yet? Ask us for one — it takes a minute.
| Listed | Address | Area | Contract | Size | Rent | €/m² | Agency |
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Eleven listings on the island are left out: their advertisements state that sub-letting, or letting for tourist use, is not permitted. Four on the mainland are left out too — two are offered only to companies, one is tagged canone libero but its text proposes a contratto transitorio, and one is for students or company guest use. “Listed” is the date the advertisement was last updated by the agency; two idealista entries publish only an approximate age and are marked ~, and three publish no date at all. Advertised monthly rent, excluding condominio and utilities. Sources: idealista.it and immobiliare.it, read 12 September 2026 for the historic centre and 13 September 2026 for Mestre and Marghera. “libero” means the advertisement states a free-market contract without publishing the term. This is market information, not a valuation of your property.. Advertised monthly rent, excluding condominio and utilities. Sources: idealista.it and immobiliare.it, read 12 September 2026 for the historic centre and 13 September 2026 for Mestre and Marghera. “libero” means the advertisement states a free-market contract without publishing the term. This is market information, not a valuation of your property.. Advertised monthly rent, excluding condominio and utilities. Sources: idealista.it and immobiliare.it, read 12 September 2026. “libero” means the advertisement states a free-market contract without publishing the term. This is market information, not a valuation of your property.
Straight answers
A 4+4 is a free-market contract: you set the rent, the term is four years and it renews automatically for four more unless one of the statutory grounds applies. A 3+2 is the canone concordato: the rent sits inside the band set by the Venice territorial agreement, the term is three years plus two — and in exchange the state gives you cedolare secca at 10% instead of 21%, plus a reduction on IMU. For many Venice owners the 3+2 nets more after tax even though the headline rent is lower. We will model both for your flat before you choose.
That depends on the route and the property, and it is written into the contract — including whether sub-letting for tourist use is permitted at all. Nothing happens in your flat that the contract you signed does not allow, and we will not ask you to sign anything that leaves it vague.
Italian law already protects you at the end of each term, and we agree the exit terms in writing at the start. We are a company that intends to keep operating in Venice for a long time — a dispute with an owner costs us far more than it costs you.
Set out line by line in the contract before signature. In general the ordinary running of the flat sits with us and the extraordinary works stay with the owner, as the civil code has it — but we put it in writing rather than leaving you to find out.
Often yes. Tell us what it needs. We take on properties that are tired, and we would rather discuss who pays for what up front than have you spend money on the wrong things first.
No. The visit and the rent proposal are free and carry no obligation. If the numbers do not work for you, they do not work — you keep the benchmark table above either way.
Start here
We reply within one working day, in Italian or English, with an indication of what the flat would earn on each route.