Movie side-hustler who simply wished to pay mortgage now works with BBC and Netflix

A girl who started renting out her dwelling to pay for her mortgage has created a enterprise managing dozens of places together with luxurious homes, cottages and stately properties.

Gillian Milner runs Location Creation, a gaggle which helps individuals put together and hire out their properties for movie and photoshoots.

She additionally helps handle and run bookings on behalf of homeowners, with main shoppers together with BBC, ITV, Netflix and Amazon.

The gross price range for a industrial shoot for a ten to 12 hour day will be round £1,500. The location library takes 20 p.c of that whereas the corporate takes 10 p.c.

For even bigger movie shoots with round 100 individuals on set, the price range can rise to £3,000 to £4,000 a day.

They use a wide range of location libraries, on-line platforms the place they promote the places, together with Peerspace.

Ms Milner advised Express.co.uk: “On average we would like to earn around £1,000 a day for a shoot for the premium properties we have listed on Peerspace, however this would be for our standard properties.

“Our premium properties are large scale, bigger mansions in the country or more luxurious houses in London, compared to more everyday homes or smaller cottages.

“The need for them really varies depending on the type of booking we make – which is usually for TV and film.”

Their properties embody a number of massive homes in London, a seaview cottage in Essex and stately properties together with Parnham Park in Dorset and Ravenstone Hall in Leicestershire.

Fashion manufacturers equivalent to Next and Zara and foods and drinks corporations additionally use the engaging places for photoshoots and filming, in addition to on-line influencers.

Ms Milner beforehand labored in promoting and bought the thought to hire out her personal property as she used to organise photoshoots for merchandise.

When she and her husband got here to purchase their property in Deerhurst Road in Streatham in London 20 years in the past, they determined to hire it out to assist repay the mortgage.

She stated: “I love having people in the house, I love seeing the content come out. The people coming in are so varied and always really interesting and lovely.”

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