Mornington Peninsula / Owner guide
Airbnb management on the Mornington Peninsula, town by town
What guests look for in each Peninsula town, and the local team who get your home booked and cared for.
How Peachy manages homes
By Tom Antonie, CEO and co-founderUpdated 6 min readAurelia, Dromana
- From 3,413 Airbnb reviews
- 4.89
- Peninsula towns in this guide
- 6
- Instagram views in 30 days
- 15,078
- People who know your home
- 5
The short answer
Good Airbnb management on the Peninsula is local. A team gets your home ready, lists it on Airbnb and our own site, prices every night, looks after guests and cares for the house between stays. At Peachy that is Ellie, Amber and Breony, with Tom and Guss.
01 / Rosebud and Capel Sound
Rosebud and Capel Sound: family beach towns that fill up every summer
Rosebud is the Peninsula’s classic summer town. The foreshore is long, the water is calm and shallow, and the main street is busy every school holiday. Most guests here are families and groups, so enough beds, a big table and a short walk to the sand matter more than anything else.
Capel Sound sits in the quieter streets between Rosebud and Rye. It suits couples, friends and people bringing the dog. A pet-friendly yard, an outdoor bath or a deck that catches the afternoon sun can be the reason a guest picks your home over the one next door.
02 / Dromana
Dromana: bay views, with Arthurs Seat behind you
Dromana sits at the foot of Arthurs Seat on a long, gentle sweep of bay. If your home has a view of the water or the mountain, that view is the story, and it has to be the first photo a guest sees.
Guests come for the beach across the road and stay for the summit lookout, the gondola and the cellar doors up the hill. We write the listing around that day: a swim in the morning, a long lunch, then sunset from the deck. A good listing sells the day, not just the bedrooms.
03 / Rye
Rye: a calm beach out the front and wild surf out the back
Rye has two sides. The bay beach is calm and gentle for children, and the ocean beaches behind the town are wild and beautiful. That gives Rye a reason to visit in every season, not just in January.
In the cooler months, the homes that stand out have something warm to offer: a sauna, an outdoor bath, a fire. In summer it is space, shade and a short walk to the water. We price and market each season separately, because the guests, and what they search for, are different.
04 / Mount Martha and Sorrento
Mount Martha and Sorrento: homes that sell the setting
Mount Martha is the relaxed end of the bay: bathing boxes, sheltered beaches and a small village that keeps it low-key. Sorrento has limestone streets, a ferry across the heads and two very different beaches.
Guests here often choose on the setting: a pool, a view or a short walk to the village. So the photos and the film do a lot of the work. We shoot the home the way a guest will live in it, from the morning swim to the evening light, and post it where Peninsula travellers already look.
05 / Your team
Meet the five people who look after your home
Tom and Guss founded Peachy and lead the business. Ellie manages Peachy day to day and keeps the team, the guests and the homes moving together. Amber and Breony are portfolio managers: each looks after a group of homes, knows the owners by name and works with the cleaners and trades around the booking calendar.
You will always know who to call, and the person who answers knows your home: the hot water, the gate code, the guests who came back last summer.
06 / Bookings and your portal
How guests find a Peninsula home, and how you keep track of it
Airbnb is one place guests find your home. Other booking sites, our own website, our Instagram and our email list are others. In the 30 days to 9 November 2026, our Instagram posts were viewed 15,078 times by 4,105 different accounts.
You see every booking in an owner portal our own team built: dates, nightly rates, what guests paid, costs and reviews, on your phone or your computer. You don’t have to wait for a monthly email to see how your home is going.
Great location, fantastic hosts. Our stay was fantastic, check in was so easy and clear, the house was left beautiful for our arrival.
Around the Peninsula
More of the Peninsula, from homes we look after
Our own marketing
Recent posts from @peachy.properties
15,078 views and 4,105 accounts reached, 11 October to 9 November 2026. 2,274 followers on 10 November 2026.
Talk to the team
Tell us about your Peninsula home.
Ellie or one of the team will call you, talk through the home and what it could do, and answer every question before you decide.
Martha’s Playground, Mount Martha
Questions Peninsula owners ask us
Which Mornington Peninsula towns do you manage in?
We look after homes right along the bay side, including Rosebud, Capel Sound, Dromana, Rye, Mount Martha and Sorrento, and inland in places like Main Ridge and Balnarring. If your home is somewhere else on the Peninsula, ask us: the team will tell you honestly whether it suits.
Do you manage holiday homes outside the Peninsula?
Yes, in selected areas. As well as the Mornington Peninsula, we look after homes in parts of Melbourne, the Yarra Valley, Alpine Victoria and Phillip Island, like Luxury on Lakeside in Mount Beauty. Talk to us about where your home is.
Do you only list homes on Airbnb?
No. Airbnb is one of the places guests book. We also list your home on other booking sites, take bookings direct through the Peachy website, and promote it through our Instagram and email list. More places to be found means more chances to fill the nights that matter.
Can I still use my home myself?
Yes. Tell us the weeks you want before we open the calendar, and we keep them free. At eligible homes you can plan your own stays in the owner portal, and your portfolio manager can help with anything the portal can’t do, like a last-minute change.
Who looks after cleaning and maintenance?
Your portfolio manager arranges cleaning, linen, inspections and maintenance around the booking calendar, using local cleaners and trades. Costs show up line by line in your owner portal, with the invoice behind them where we hold one, so you can see what was done and why.
How do you set the nightly price?
We price every night on its own with PricingHub, the pricing tool our founders built. It learns from 20,426 bookings across 248 homes from the three holiday rental businesses in our group, and compares your home with the homes most like it. Our team checks the result before it goes live.
What does management cost?
We set out the management fee and every other cost for your home in your proposal, so you can see the whole arrangement before you decide. Our fees guide explains what a fee covers, what sits outside it, and how GST and Victoria’s short stay levy fit in.
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Town descriptions come from our own Peninsula town pages. The homes pictured are live Peachy homes in each town, checked on our website on 11 November 2026. The team and their roles are as shown on our owner page.
Review figures were checked on 10 November 2026: 4.9 from 415 Google reviews for the Peachy profile, and 4.89 from 3,413 reviews on the Peachy Airbnb host profile, which covers all its listings rather than one home. Instagram figures are 30-day Insights for 11 October to 9 November 2026; views include repeat viewing.
Limits: This guide describes towns and guests in general. What your home earns depends on the home, its dates and your own use.
Written by Tom and the Peachy team. Updated 11 November 2026.