Jon Faine skewers Airbnb as ‘parasites and predators’
Finally, the mainstream media is not buying the Airbnb BS. Have a listen to the the $30 billion global letting agency’s talking head Brent Thomas squirm as ABC Melbourne’s Jon…
Airbnb in strata
It’s not just Airbnb – it’s all short-term holiday letting (STL) in apartment blocks. But that California-based holiday letting internet site has become the generic term for this activity.
Now that there’s proof that it afffects residential rents – they go down when STLs go away – it will be interesting to see how state governments react when out borders are open. Expect lighter-touch, if any, restrictions to encourage tourism.
Roundup: Gambling, porn, extremism … and Airbnb
It’s a funny old world when convincing enough people that they can make money by breaking the law persuades the lawmakers to change it. Uber is the most obvious example,…
Roundup: What happens when the powers that be curb Airbnb
As I sit in a hotel in Da Nang, Vietnam, my planned billet in Hoi An under water, and the death toll from Typhoon Damrey rising up to 50, it’s…
ROUNDUP: Airbnb – wake me up when it’s all over
Are you sick of reading about Airbnb? Me too. I for one will be so glad when the whole online holiday letting debate is put to bed. That said, unfettered…
How much do you really know about Airbnb?
What happens when you complain? How many homes have been taken out of the residential market? What’s an “astroturfing” campaign?If you don’t know already, it’s time you took our fun…
Your chance to speak out on Airbnb in unit blocks
Want to have your say about short-term holiday letting in apartment blocks but feel your voice isn’t being heard? Not sure what to say in a submission to to state…
Cladding and Airbnb crises halt strata event
The Owners Corporation Network has postponed its Savvy Strata seminar planned for Saturday week (Oct 14), citing a series of major challenges to strata owners as the reason for the late change of…
Woman who made $13,000 on Airbnb gets by-law overturned
Hold on to your sun-hats! The NSW strata tribunal has overturned a by-law that attempted to ban Airbnb-style holiday lets in a Sydney Eastern Suburbs apartment block. In what’s thought…
Poor hosts scared by ‘hurtful’ comments, says Airbnb
Well, I finaly got round to writing my response to the Short Term Holiday Letting Positions paper. However, my intended short and pithy one-pager turned out to be six pages…
Short-term letting: The Flat Chat position
This is Flat Chat’s submission to the NSW government’s position paper on short-term holiday letting. It is concerned only with strata schemes – people in houses can look after themselves.…
Airbnb survey exposes age and ownership divide
By Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson A widening divide between young renters and older owners in Sydney’s growing number of apartment buildings, has been exposed by a major survey into…
Not in our block: Airbnb shock in Sydney city survey
It’s not exactly a U-turn but City of Sydney seem likely to make a significant shift in their thinking about short-term holiday letting in apartment buildings. And it’s all because…