Podcast: Strata Hub stats and hottest spot for flats
This week in the podcast we take a long, hard look at the proposals – well advanced, it must be said – for every strata scheme in NSW to register…
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.
Podcast: See you soon … on your CCTV screens
Exactly who gets to view the recording from your strata scheme’s CCTV cameras? That’s a topic that’s been keeping us occupied on the Flat Chat Forum and now gets an…
Airbnb is back … but the new registry will bite
Would-be Airbnb hosts hoping to cash in on the opening up of regional travel on November 1 and even the eventual arrival of overseas visitors could be be in for…
Airbnb rebound drives up rents and hits availability
The opening of borders prior to the most recent Victorian lockdown provided a glimpse of how short-term rentals are ready to ramp up again, leading to a shortage of residential…
Podcast: Another U-Turn as Airbnb history repeats
Apologies for subjecting you to another short-term letting vent, but after last week’s state government schemozzle when the new holiday rental regulations were announced, then shelved, we thought we’d better…
Podcast: Airbnb update as holiday let regs put on ice
Sometimes you can be just too efficient. There we were with the NSW government’s proposed regulations on short-term letting hot off the printer, plus industry responses and reactions from apartment…
Messy message as final ‘airbnb’ code delayed
Late last week, when NSW Planning finally released the new regulations on short-term holiday letting – aka STRA, aka “airbnb” – there was something to annoy everyone. The proposals would…
Party flats and the invisible airbnb blacklist
Party animals and horrible hosts beware! Breaches of the NSW holiday rental Code of Conduct are already being pursued and hosts and guests face being blacklisted – even though the NSW…
In the thick of it over Airbnb register
It’s all a bit Thick of It (or Yes, Minister for older readers) but every so often our government ministers have to front up and answer questions to a Budget…
Rents drop as Airbnb flats return to residential lets
The pandemic hasn’t quite killed off short-term holiday letting but it’s certainly applied a hefty brake – at least as far as our cities are concerned. The return to the…
New book blasts Airbnb as hosts welcome register
Airbnb has “welcomed” the new short-term holiday lets code of conduct but is staying notably silent on the proposed register of STHL properties in NSW. And while accommodation hosts in…
Party animals plan masks limp Airbnb code
It’s easy to spot when a state government policy on controlling short-term letting might have serious holes in it – Airbnb and other holiday letting (STHL) operators say they’re happy…