Liz Rowlinson talks to Holiday Lettings about the rental potential in the Canary Islands and how Gran Canaria is a top performing location for holiday home owners.

Bluebell Cottage (Home 54307) in County Fermanagh is offering weekend breaks in November and December for just £200. The cottage sleeps six and is a haven for fishermen.

This is the October favourite for a bargain ski break (Home 52791). Skiing in Bulgaria is great!

There's hope for the Spanish property market and investors in it thanks to the continual demand for holiday lettings there.

Y Sgubor (Home 72579) in Bala, Wales features in today's Times late deals with a brilliant offer over half term of just £350 per week, sleeping four guests.

Mandi Miller presents some of the key tips from the new Letting Your Holiday Home free guide produced by holidaylettings.co.uk.

This special travel supplement with Saturday's Telegraph includes a detached chalet (home 52791) in the Bulgarian mountains, which they awarded the 'best buy' rosette.

Norman Miller talks to Ross Elder about how to maximise the value of your holiday bolthole.

The Granary (Home 38011) is perched on the edge of the Forest of Dean and its magical sculpture trail. Learn photography skills while you're there too!

SQM, the glossy estate agency publication, reports on the growth in letting agents switching to short lets as sales slow.

Not everybody has time to handle their own booking enquiries and so employ letting agents to do it for them. As the economic tide turns more and more letting agents are entering the short lets market and 2008 has been a bumper year for them on holidaylettings.co.uk.

With cider, Calvados and Camembert production on your doorstep a week at Les Bambous (Home 38507) is what foodie dreams are made of. A week there in October for five will set you back just £390.

Tom Chesshyre talks to holidaylettings.co.uk about the volume of early Christmas bookings for UK holiday homes this year - already up 17 per cent on this time last year.