Spotted this today, following on from the “Melbourne house trashed via Booking.com rental” story, where a caller said people were naked and taking drugs after booking her house for a movie shoot. Overseas we’ve...
Great post about the state of short term letting in Sydney by an expert in the field. What started as room sharing has become mainly full time commercial operations. Council and building residents suffer more...
More evidence that short-term rentals affect rental affordability. A whopping $616m according to NYC. Airbnb as always is disputing the details but the logical link is clear, and the evidence is piling up that...
This is why councils need a monitoring and enforcement solution (like, ahem, BnbGuard) if they want to regulate short-term letting. Rules by themselves are too easy to ignore, and they’re getting easier to ignore....
I’d say we’ve now reached peak Airbnb clone with this version for naturists but it’s only beginning. At BnbGuard we see a lot of Australian listings on niche holiday letting websites, and it’s increasing....
This article from Domain talks about how Melbourne is building mainly 1 and 2br apartments, fine for today’s buyers but not so much when people start wanting families. Clearly the huge demand for short-term...
