Monthly and long term stays in Liverpool
1 month rentals in Liverpool, without a tenancy
Furnished apartments let by the month in Liverpool. Bills, wifi and cleaning included, no twelve month commitment, and no referencing or deposit scheme to get through first.
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The short answer
A furnished flat in Liverpool you can take for a month.
A one month rental sits in the gap the normal rental market leaves open. Letting agents want a twelve month assured shorthold tenancy, referencing, a guarantor and a protected deposit. A hotel will take you for a month but will charge you as though you were there for three nights. What we do is let whole furnished apartments in Liverpool by the month: you arrive with a suitcase, everything is already there, every bill is in the price, and when the month is up you either extend or you hand the keys back. Liverpool is the largest of the cities we run properties in, and the centre is compact enough that a central base reaches the commercial district, the waterfront and the Knowledge Quarter on foot.
Called a few different things
People search for this in a dozen ways and mean the same thing. A 1 month rental Liverpool listing, short stay apartments Liverpool, short term apartment rentals Liverpool, short term apartments Liverpool, monthly rentals Liverpool, short let apartments Liverpool, long stay apartments Liverpool, temporary accommodation Liverpool, a one month short term rental, a 1 month apartment rental Liverpool, a month to month lease, a monthly let, or simply a flat for a month.
Why the normal route does not work
You do not need a twelve month tenancy. You need somewhere to live for a month.
That mismatch is the whole problem. A letting agent cannot help you, because their product is a year. A hotel can help you but the arithmetic is unpleasant by week two, and you still cannot cook. A monthly rental is the thing in between, and it tends to suit people in one of these situations:
Where you would be
What a month in Liverpool actually puts you near.
Shopping when you actually live here
The centre is well covered for a pint of milk and poorly covered for a proper shop. The supermarkets in town are the small convenience sort, so a full week's worth usually means a bus or a drive out to one of the larger stores on the main roads, or a delivery slot. Most people settle into a delivery plus a top up walk within the first fortnight and stop thinking about it.
A compact centre, with hills
Liverpool's centre is small enough to cross on foot in about twenty minutes, from the waterfront through Liverpool ONE and Bold Street to the Georgian streets at the top. What the map hides is the gradient. The city climbs steeply away from the river, so the walk into town is easy and the walk home is not. After a few weeks you learn which streets to use and which to avoid.
Getting out of the city
The line north reaches Crosby beach, the Formby dunes and Southport. The Wirral line reaches New Brighton, West Kirby and Chester in about three quarters of an hour. Manchester is under an hour by train and north Wales is a straightforward drive. For a stay of a month or more, being able to leave easily on a Saturday matters more than most people expect it to.
What changes after a few weeks
Visitors see the waterfront and the weekends. Living here you notice the wind coming off the Mersey, that the weather arrives from the west and turns fast, and that match days at Anfield and at the new waterfront stadium reshape the traffic for a few hours. You also notice that people talk to strangers as a matter of course, which makes a long stay on your own easier here than in most cities.
Laundry, bins and the small stuff
The domestic rhythm takes a fortnight to learn. Bin collections run to a rota that will not be the one you are used to, launderettes are thin on the ground in the centre and cluster in the older residential streets, and anything bulky has to be driven out to a household waste site. None of it is hard. It is simply the sort of thing nobody mentions until it has already annoyed you.
Where you end up eating after a month
Everyone starts on the waterfront and stops within a fortnight. What people settle on is Bold Street and the roads around it, which are almost entirely independent, Chinatown at the top of Berry Street, and Lark Lane out towards Sefton Park. The Baltic Market covers the middle ground. By week four you will have three places you go to without deciding, and none will be the famous ones.
Summer and winter are different cities
In June the parks fill, the light holds until ten and the place genuinely feels coastal, which it is. In a wet January the same streets feel twice as long and almost everything happens indoors. September brings the students back and the south of the city changes character inside a week. A month spent in one season tells you remarkably little about the next one.
When you stop being a visitor
There is a point around the third week when you have a barber, a shop where they know your face and a library card, and the city stops being somewhere you are staying. Central Library is free to walk into and one of the better rooms in Liverpool to sit and work in. That shift is the real difference between a month here and a long weekend.
Booking direct
The same property, without the platform's cut.
Our properties are on Airbnb and Booking.com as well, and you are welcome to book there. Booking direct also avoids the guest service fee the big platforms add on top, which on a longer Liverpool stay is not a small number. Booking with us direct also means you are talking to the people who actually run the property rather than a message thread inside an app, which matters when you need an early check-in or an extra week.
For a month or more, message reservations rather than booking night by night online. Monthly rates are not the nightly rate multiplied out, and they are not always shown on the booking calendar. Tell us the dates and how many of you and we will quote the month properly.
In every property
What is actually there when you arrive.
Liverpool questions
What people ask about staying in Liverpool.
Which part of Liverpool should I be in?
Most of what you would need day to day sits in the city centre, the Baltic Triangle, the Georgian Quarter and the waterfront. Tell us where you need to be each morning rather than which postcode you fancy, and we will be honest about what is close to it and what only looks close.
Can I park in Liverpool?
Parking in the centre is paid and mostly multi-storey, and the residential streets around the Georgian Quarter are permit zones. If you are driving daily, ask about the specific property before you book rather than assuming, because it varies street by street here more than it does in a purpose built block.
How easy is it to get around Liverpool without a car?
Lime Street puts Manchester at thirty five minutes and London at just over two hours, and the airport is twenty minutes by car.
What is there to do in Liverpool on a day off?
The waterfront, the two cathedrals, the Baltic Triangle and the Georgian Quarter are all walkable from a central base, and the Wirral, Crosby beach and Formby are half an hour out. Liverpool is an easy city to have a day off in, which matters more on a long stay than people expect.
Questions we get asked
What people ask before taking a month.
What does a 1 month rental in Liverpool actually cost?
Less per night than the same flat taken for a weekend, and it varies by property, by size and by time of year. If you searched for a cheap 1 month rental Liverpool, the honest answer is that a monthly figure is worth asking for rather than guessing, because the price on the booking calendar is a nightly rate and a month is priced differently. Message us with your dates and you will get a single number with everything in it.
Is there a deposit, referencing or a credit check?
No. This is a booking, not a tenancy, so there is no referencing, no guarantor and no protected deposit scheme to get your money back out of at the end. Some properties hold a small damage deposit that is released after checkout, and we will say so before you book rather than after.
Are bills and council tax included?
Yes, all of them. Gas, electricity, water, council tax and wifi are in the price. There is nothing to set up in your name and nothing to close down when you leave, which is most of the reason people choose this over a short tenancy.
Can I take it for three or six months?
Yes. A 3 month rental Liverpool booking and a 6 month rental Liverpool booking are both normal here, and the rate improves again past the first month. Tell us the full length at the start rather than extending a month at a time and you will get a better price and keep the same flat.
Check availability
Tell us the month you need.
Check what is available on the booking site, or message reservations with your dates and we will come back with a monthly price that includes everything.
Reservations, seven days a week, on 0333 880 7213