What if tenant wants to stop paying rent
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…
New Short Term Holiday Letting Regulations to Commence
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…
Renters experiencing hardship will be protected by a relief model
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…
Pets in rentals: Is it fair to take away a landlord’s right to refuse?
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…
Four changes Australia desperately needs to make to rental agreements
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.
Pet Bonds, are they necessary?
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?
Apartment dwellers lose out as Airbnb here to stay, court rules
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.
Short-term letting reforms in wake of Airbnb eviction
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.
Landlord appeals recent VCAT ruling on sub-letting via Airbnb
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.