Renting a home a few days a week, the same days every week, for months: that is the whole idea of long-term part-time renting. Neither a hotel night repeated forever, nor a studio paid full time for part-time use. This guide lays out the basics of the model, for people discovering it.
The one-sentence definition
A furnished home, occupied on fixed days set in a contract, with rent proportionate to the nights actually occupied, over the long run. Three words matter: fixed, contract, long run. They are what separate part-time renting from everything that came before it.
It is not seasonal rental: no passing stays, no stream of travellers, the occupant comes back every week. It is not a flatshare in the legal sense: each occupant uses the home as a secondary residence, on their own days, without ever crossing paths with anyone. It is a third category, with its own vocabulary and its own contract, built for work rhythms rather than holidays.
Who the model serves
Commuters and split-location workers who sleep two or three nights a week near the office: their dedicated guide is over here. Hybrid workers called back on fixed days. Employees on long assignments. And, on the landlord side, owners of under-occupied properties who want recurring rent without tourist turnover: their reading starts in the owners guide.
The budget order of magnitude
Rent follows the nights, not the calendar. Two fixed nights a week at 45 euros per night come to roughly 390 euros per month. The same nights cost around 1,100 euros per month in a hotel and about 780 euros in a holiday-style flat, with no stable address and no guaranteed rate. A home rented by the full month often costs three to four times the part-time budget, for nights slept elsewhere.
The contract that carries the model
Everything rests on the Civil Code lease for secondary residences, which Kowo calls the fixed-days lease: days of occupancy, rent, duration and notice are written freely into the contract. The legal guide covers it end to end, and the co-occupancy guide explains how several occupants share one home on separate days, each with an independent lease.
What you will find in this guide
The articles below form the model’s user manual: understanding long-term part-time renting, avoiding the vocabulary traps, starting without missteps. To see where the model is already open, head to the Kowo cities.