Short term rental statistics and data: South Africa - Free State
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Properties

There are 1653 short term rentals properties in Free State
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Hosts

In this area there are 775 unique hosts and 339 Superhosts
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Instant Booking

674 listings in Free State have Instant Booking turned on.
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Reviews

All Free State listings received 45.005 reviews.

MonthAvailabilityMedium Price
July 202566.52%€ 69.37
August 202582.73%€ 69.35
September 202584.17%€ 69.57
October 202585.34%€ 69.13
November 202587.81%€ 69.69
December 202583.11%€ 69.13
January 202691.81%€ 68.32
February 202693.91%€ 64.25
March 202691.73%€ 63.91
April 202695.12%€ 63.38
May 202695.97%€ 64.32


In the next year, in Free State, the short term rental higher medium price is € 69.69, and the higher medium price looking only at available listings is € 70.48. Instead the lowest medium price is € 63.38 and the lowest medium price of available listings is € 63.04.
Availability of short term rental available properties in Free State from July 2025 to May 2026 varies between 66.52% and 95.97%.
Consider that many short term rental hosts do not open their booking calendars too far in the future. Opening your calendar for 12 months or more could be a great business opportunity.
Note: we collect and update data every day and short term rentals prices and availabilities may vary on every data update.

Properties and rooms

In the "Free State" area 29% of short term rental properties are classified as Private room in guesthouse, 10.6% are classified as Entire home, 9% are classified as Private room in bed and breakfast, 7.4% are classified as Entire rental unit, 5.4% are classified as Entire guest suite, 5% are classified as Farm stay, 4% are classified as Entire guesthouse, 3.8% are classified as Private room in home, 3.4% are classified as Private room in farm stay, 3.2% are classified as Private room in guest suite, 2.8% are classified as Private room in rental unit, and 16.4% of short term rental properties are classified in minors categories.

Rooms in non exclusive use properties are divided according to the following types: 87.5% are "Private rooms", 12.5% are "Hotel rooms" and 0% are "Shared rooms"
Bedrooms and beds

Of those properties 60.8% have 1 bedroom, 11.8% have 2 bedrooms, 6.8% have 3 bedrooms, 6.8% have 4 bedrooms, 4% have bedrooms, 3.6% have 5 bedrooms, and properties having a different number of bedrooms are 6.2%.

Also, the number of beds in each property varies as follows: 5.8% have 0 beds, 53.6% have 1 bed, 15.2% have 2 beds, 8% have 3 beds, 7.2% have 4 beds, 3.8% have 5 beds, and all other properties are about 6.4%.

98.2% have beds, 1.8% have Real bed beds, 0% have Others,
Bathrooms

The number of bathrooms for property is distributed as follows: 30.4% have bathrooms, 26.6% have 1.00 bathroom, 7.2% have 2.00 bathrooms, 2.8% have 4.00 bathrooms, 28.2% have 5.00 bathrooms, and properties having a different number of bathrooms are 4.8%.

Note: A half bath value means it is just a toilet and sink. There isn't a shower or tub in it, so a house with 1.5 baths has one full bathroom and one-half bath.
Max guests capacity

Regarding the number of people that the accommodation facilities are able to accommodate, in the "Free State" area's, we have the following segments: 2.4% can accomodate up to 1 guest guests, 3% can accomodate up to 10 guests guests, 5.4% can accomodate up to 16 guests guests, 49% can accomodate up to 2 guests guests, 6.8% can accomodate up to 3 guests guests, 13.4% can accomodate up to 4 guests guests, 3.2% can accomodate up to 5 guests guests, 6.8% can accomodate up to 6 guests guests, 4.8% can accomodate up to 8 guests guests, and 5.2% can accomodate a different number of guests.
Cancellation policies

"Free State" area's hosts apply cancellation policies for their properties as follows: 34.6% apply Flexible policy, 18.6% apply Firm policy, 17.8% apply Refundable policy, 15.8% apply Non-refundable policy, 9.2% apply Moderate policy, and hosts applying different policies are 4%.