Domain – Tenants hurt as Airbnb closes in on empty rental properties in Sydney, according to new report

January 25, 2017
More than half the empty rental properties in Sydney’s holiday hotspots are likely to be listed on Airbnb, according to the Sydney University report cited in a plea to new NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to allow bans on short-stay lets in apartments to ease Sydney’s affordable housing crisis. And, despite the online letting agency’s corporate message that they are all about ordinary people making extra money, relatively few Sydneysiders benefit from renting out rooms in their homes, say leading academics…
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