airbnb + short term letting

Airbnb ‘party animals’ face five-year ban in Christmas crackdown

2020-10-28T19:33:41+11:00

27 OCTOBER 2020 Consistently unruly Airbnb guests and hosts will be publicly shamed and banned for up to five years under new rules for the NSW short-term rental industry that come into force for the Christmas holidays. From December 18 the state's fair trading watchdog will have the power to craft conditions for short-term rental accommodation users and operators who have breached a new code of conduct. The new rules come [...]

Airbnb ‘party animals’ face five-year ban in Christmas crackdown2020-10-28T19:33:41+11:00

The European Cities Using the Pandemic As a Cure for Airbnb

2020-11-18T12:02:51+11:00

13 AUGUST 2020 If you walked the streets of Lisbon at the end of last year, just after Portugal voted to reelect its surprisingly successful center/left coalition government, it wouldn’t take long to notice something strange. The people spilling out of the capital’s beautiful old apartment buildings were very often, very obviously, tourists — not locals on their way to work, but usually groups of well-to-do 20-somethings looking for an upscale [...]

The European Cities Using the Pandemic As a Cure for Airbnb2020-11-18T12:02:51+11:00

Key to Unwelcome ‘Guests’ & Overcrowded Flats Is At Your Fingertips

2020-09-21T21:54:52+10:00

19 May 2020 It started with a complaint from an exasperated reader who declared himself sick of all the negative Airbnb and holiday letting stories we run on Flat Chat. But it’s not that this reader was in favour of unfettered holiday lets, far from it, but that people like us were faffing around, banging on about legislation and by-laws when he felt there were much more effective ways of stopping [...]

Key to Unwelcome ‘Guests’ & Overcrowded Flats Is At Your Fingertips2020-09-21T21:54:52+10:00

Get ready for the great Airbnb rebound

2020-10-28T19:34:29+11:00

13 MAY 2020 There’s no doubt that Airbnb will make a comeback after the pandemic. So where are we at, as a nation, with holiday lets? The online holiday letting agency has apparently suffered an 85 per cent downturn in global business, knocking an estimated $30 billion off its value as it heads for a long-delayed float on the sharemarket. For those who bought or sub-let multiple properties to run them [...]

Get ready for the great Airbnb rebound2020-10-28T19:34:29+11:00

Is this the end of Airbnb?

2020-09-21T21:55:56+10:00

22 Apr 2020 Brian Chesky is no stranger to big lifts. The 38-year-old former bodybuilder and Airbnb CEO has, in the space of 11 years, hauled his property rental dream from a single air mattress to a multi-billion dollar startup success story. But as hosts rage and debt piles up, the huge weight of the coronavirus pandemic might be too much for Chesky to bear. In Prague, officials are using the [...]

Is this the end of Airbnb?2020-09-21T21:55:56+10:00

OCN Fact Sheet – Short Term Letting – Updated April 2020

2020-10-20T15:59:34+11:00

21 APRIL 2020 This OCN fact sheet outlines proposed changes to the NSW regulatory framework announced in June 2018 and the further changes released in August 2019. The new strata by-law power commenced on 10 April 2020. It is for information only. It does not constitute legal advice. > OCN Fact Sheet - Short Term Letting (pdf)

OCN Fact Sheet – Short Term Letting – Updated April 20202020-10-20T15:59:34+11:00

Airbnbs declared ‘illegal’ as NSW government cracks down on holidaymakers

2020-09-21T22:04:14+10:00

6 April 2020 It is now illegal for anyone in NSW to stay in an Airbnb or similar short-term letting agency accommodation, a government spokesman has declared. Under the new coronavirus regulations, no one should be staying anywhere other than their own permanent home, and they could be fined or imprisoned if they were found to be breaking emergency rules. “There’s zero reason for someone to stay in an Airbnb,” said [...]

Airbnbs declared ‘illegal’ as NSW government cracks down on holidaymakers2020-09-21T22:04:14+10:00

Bad news for Airbnb could be blessed relief for renters

2020-10-07T15:40:56+11:00

4 APRIL 2020 It seems oddly appropriate, if not ironic, that a business that effectively grew virally on the internet should have suffered more than most because of COVID-19. Those who watched with dismay while short-term holiday lets moved into apartment blocks where they weren’t welcome or, in some cases, legally permitted, may have witnessed the current collapse of the holiday-letting industry with a certain grim satisfaction. These days the blows [...]

Bad news for Airbnb could be blessed relief for renters2020-10-07T15:40:56+11:00

Government Reneged on Airbnb Code of Conduct

2020-10-28T19:35:00+11:00

OCN MEDIA RELEASE: 3 April 2020 In a stunning move today, the NSW Government has withdrawn the Code of Conduct for the Short-Term Rental Accommodation Industry, so that illegal “Airbnb Apartments” can operate unfettered across Sydney and NSW during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jane Hearn, Director, Owners Corporation Network said. “In a time of a national health crisis, the Government is more concerned to protect thousands of illegal listings for units [...]

Government Reneged on Airbnb Code of Conduct2020-10-28T19:35:00+11:00
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