Our recent story about how the Building Appeals Board in Victoria had decreed that short-term rentals in residential apartment blocks are in contravention of the building codes and are therefore illegal illustrates the huge gulf in attitudes to apartment living between the southern states and Queensland.

Earlier this year, the opposite decision was made in the Sunshine State, according to this press release from the Queensland branch of Strata Community Australia, the strata management industry body. A proposal by the Home Unit Owners Association and the Australian Hoteliers Association to ban short-stay letting in residential buildings, was rejected by the…