If you have commercial or retail tenants asking for rent reductions or want to stop paying rent, you should ensure that you: guide them to all available support measures for their business ask them to provide evidence that they are seeking relief from government announced programs, utility companies, their bank, and the like ask them…
Changes to the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW) will commence on 10 April 2020, allowing the passing of by-laws by Special Resolution that prohibit short-term rentals where the lot is not the host’s principal place of residence. That is, investment lots. Below is an extract from the Strata Management Amendment Act outlining this: 137A…
Coronavirus in Australia: Renters experiencing hardship will be protected by a relief model Australians who rent will be able to stay in their homes in the event they experience hardship due to coronavirus and can’t pay rent. States and territories will work on a relief package for Australians who rent their home to protect them…
Victoria’s peak body for real estate agents is shaping up for a fight against the Government over reforms to allow renters greater rights to own pets, saying investors are already pulling out of the market ahead of the changes. The Government’s proposed reforms to state rental tenancy rules include making it harder for landlords to…
The Turnbull government has reportedly decided that housing affordability is one of its big issues for 2017. And you can understand the issue’s appeal. After all, it’s a subject a good deal of Australia is very reasonably obsessed with.
If the regulators introduce a pet-bond, why not balance this by also introducing: a child-bond, cooking bond and should we also ask for a party-bond?
People living in apartments will not be able to stop other landlords renting their properties on Airbnb to short term tenants, a landmark Supreme Court decision has found.
After a Victorian landlord successfully appealed to have her tenants evicted for breaching a lease agreement by subletting through online platform Airbnb, the NSW government is holding an inquiry into the regulation of short-term holiday letting.
The legal status of Airbnb listings has been challenged in the Supreme Court of Victoria, with a landlord arguing her apartment was illegally sublet through the site.