Offer your location as a filming location and decide on every shoot.
SetScout helps owners offer houses, apartments, offices and special spaces for film, TV, advertising and photo productions with qualified inquiries, clear rules, contract review and insurance checks.
For owners and location hosts
Your listing explains which rooms are available, what stays off limits and under which terms productions may inquire.
Why owners use SetScout
Reach productions without turning your location into an open space.
Searchers need fast answers about look, access, price and risk. Owners need control over privacy, dates and use. The process has to serve both sides.
Production demand
Your location can appear where scouts search for houses, apartments, offices, halls, cafes and distinctive filming locations.
Dates and rules
Describe permitted areas, blocked zones, crew size, noise, parking, loading routes and time windows before an inquiry gets serious.
Checked before booking
Before every booking, the SetScout Super Check verifies the standardized location contract and the production's insurance. You learn who wants to film and on what terms before you accept.
How rental works
From first listing to checked production inquiry
You start with the facts about the filming location. Inquiries then become concrete around dates, use, crew size, equipment, price and terms.
- 1
Create the listing
Add title, address, photos, usable rooms, access, parking, power, price guidance and rules for the location.
- 2
Receive a concrete inquiry
Productions ask with timing, intended use, team size, setup, prep, wrap and open questions.
- 3
Accept only when it fits
You can ask questions, decline or accept. Contract, payment, insurance and handover only follow when the terms fit.
What it earns, what it costs
What you can charge - and what offering it costs.
Location fees vary widely by space, city and production. There is no fixed price and no guaranteed income - the ranges below are only rough orientation, not the price of your location. You set the day price yourself in the listing.
- Create a listingas many rooms as you like
- Free
- Private space (apartment, house)depending on disruption and effort
- approx. €1,000–1,500 / day
- Commercial space (office, cafe, hall)incl. closure time and staff
- often €1,500–2,500 / day
- Commission15% commission, only when you get paid
- Free to list
These figures are editorial orientation, not an offer and not a guarantee. You set the actual day price yourself; SetScout pays out once the booking is paid.
What drives the price
- City and region
- Space type and size
- Crew size and equipment
- Shoot duration and hours
- Exclusivity and blocked dates
- Prep, wrap and reset
Why SetScout
Inquiries arrive checked, not unfiltered.
You list for free and don't have to vet every inquiry yourself: before an inquiry becomes a booking, the Super Check verifies the standardized location contract and insurance. You see who wants to film and on what terms, and decide on every acceptance yourself.
Real spaces
SetScout collects real houses, apartments, offices and commercial spaces as filming locations - not generic event venues.
Europe
With your host profile, you can list locations anywhere in Europe and reach productions searching for houses, apartments, offices and distinctive commercial spaces.
Super Check
Before every booking, SetScout's Super Check verifies the standardized location contract and the production's insurance. You then decide for yourself whether to accept.
Owner questions
Answers to the questions owners ask before listing.
Anyone offering a location for film and TV wants to know who gets access, what is protected and how a shoot stays controlled.
Who sees my location?
You control what appears in the listing. The exact address stays hidden up front and is only shown to a production once their inquiry turns into a concrete visit or booking - not to everyone browsing. You upload interior and detail photos yourself, so you decide how much of the property is public and what is only shown in the inquiry and booking context.
What if something breaks?
SetScout does not guarantee compensation for damage. In a damage case, the production's liability cover and the standardized location contract matter, and SetScout handles the contract, payment and payout, not the damage claim itself. You set house rules, blocked areas and the handover condition in your listing and document them before the shoot yourself, so the starting condition stays traceable. Before every booking, the Super Check verifies the standardized location contract and the production's insurance.
What about neighbors?
Crew size, noise, parking, loading access and filming hours should be clear before acceptance, especially in residential buildings. Serious productions handle noise carefully, inform neighbors in advance and stick to agreed limits - also so complaints do not interrupt the shoot.
Do I have to accept requests?
No. Every inquiry can be clarified, adjusted or declined until you make a binding acceptance.
What about taxes?
Location fees can be taxable. Whether you treat them as private income or as a business, and whether VAT applies, depends on your situation. SetScout processes payment and payout and provides the related payment records; for the tax treatment you should seek professional advice once the scale grows.
What does listing cost?
The listing is free - you list for free and as many spaces as you like. SetScout only earns when you earn: we take a small 15% commission once the booking is paid and you receive your payout. Until then, neither the listing nor receiving inquiries costs anything.
More owner pages
More answers for your specific property
Answers for your specific property - from a private home to a commercial space.
How to offer your house or apartment as a set: photos, privacy, neighbors, location fee, contract, insurance and control.
Offer an office, cafe, restaurant, hotel, warehouse or event venue as a filming location with availability, business rules, pricing and checked inquiries.
Owner guides
Prepare price, photos, contract and protection
Practical guides on location fees, photos, contract and insurance before you list.
How owners set a fair day rate for a filming location: realistic price ranges, what moves a location fee, and how the day price connects to a verified booking on SetScout.
A practical checklist before offering a house or apartment as a set: usable rooms, protecting private belongings, house rules, neighbors, tenant permission and how SetScout's Super Check verifies the standardized location contract and insurance before a booking is made.
What owners should clarify around location contracts, insurance, damage, house rules, handover, payment and cancellation before a film shoot.
Which photos owners should upload so productions can judge a house, apartment, office or venue as a filming location.
List the location once. Decide on every shoot.
Start with a free listing, describe your boundaries and receive inquiries that still need to pass contract, payment and insurance checks before booking.