Blog categorized as 2022

Navigating the legislative changes affecting owners corporations over the past four years is quite a challenge. We offer this thread to help you through the maze:

Last month in this column we asked the question of the major parties competing at the forthcoming state election – what are your party’s policies on short-stays?

A city in Arizona, USA is implementing an innovative plan to enhance housing availability for locals.

Tourism industry groups want Victoria to follow other states, including NSW, and impose a limit on the number of days per year that properties can be let as short stays.

Another major fire risk has been uncovered in Melbourne - curtain walls containing flammable ACP.

The federal government’s consumer watchdog, ACCC, has instituted proceedings in the Federal Court against Airbnb for allegedly misleading consumers.

With the fragrance of a federal election in the air, we have a sniff of party policies at a national level on short-stays.

VCAT is about to be exposed to sordid details of drug and alcohol-fuelled sex parties and strippers enriching a short-stay operator in a Melbourne apartment complex.

With the fragrance of a federal election in the air, we have a sniff of party policies at a national level on short-stays.

An update on the committee scandal at an inner-city building

Around the world, cities are all regulating short stays, sometimes with eye-watering penalties greater than the property value of the apartment involved.