Testing positive – areas where rents have risen
Coronavirus hasn’t quite killed Airbnb and its ilk but it’s certainly given the Australian short-term rental market a severe headache and a nasty dose of the shivers. Investors running scared…
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NSW Tourism promotes Sydney residential flats
Tourism NSW’s Now’s The Time To Love NSW campaign has a sting in its tale for Sydney apartment residents. The state government’s tourism arm has put its considerable promotional weight behind…
It’s Airbn-BS as families are ‘priced out by red tape’
Even in this crazy, mixed-up, high speed, disrupted world in which we live, some things never change. One of them, sadly, is Airbnb’s determination to tug at our heartstrings by…
Disgust and despair as Vic Labor caves in to Airbnb
Anti short-term holiday letting community members in Victoria, furious at the Labor Government there for handing their homes over to Airbnb-style holiday rentals, have vowed to make the politicians pay…
‘Astroturf’ submissions flood holiday letting inquiry
Apologies first up to everyone who is sick of reading about short-term holiday letting in this website. If it’s any consolation, we’re sick of writing about it. However, the online…
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…
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…
Holiday lets – the sound and the fury
With a Sydney University report out last week claiming that holiday rentals are having a significant and negative impact on the residential housing market, whether you are a resident owner…
Airbnb by-laws: Strata lawyers state their cases
Six strata law experts give their take on whether we can create by-laws enforcing our residential-only zoning. My story in the Sydney Morning Herald at the weekend about Fair Trading…
Anti-Airbnb by-laws challenged by Fair Trading ruling
Fair Trading has pulled the rug from under by-laws designed to restrict Airbnb and other short-term letting agencies in residential-only apartment blocks – only your local council can enforce restrictions.…
Airbnb: Free Money and Castles in the Air
Airbnb and the battle for your block: Part 2 Last week Jimmy Thomson looked at the growth of Airbnb and the opportunity and potential threats it presents to apartment residents.…
Fight for the right to ban holiday lets taken to the top
“How often in any politician’s career does he or she get to effect tangible and significant social change?” That was what Planning Minister Anthony Roberts asked me back in 2013…