

MAN WHO VOLUNTEERS AS COUNSELLOR TO HOMELESS LISTS 10,557 HOLIDAY RENTALS
Over at 330 Wattle Street Ultimo there’s “the largest Australian owned and operated holiday rental site…” It’s the headquarters of AURA Holidays Pty Limited, which was founded in 2009 - their website was launched in 2012. According to AIHIT Data, “the people behind the brand are in fact owners and managers of their own rental properties…they have put together a collective experience of over 40 years in the IT and travel business and created AURA”. A 20 November 2015 Press R


NEW SOUTH WALES: 136 PROPERTY AGENTS / 259 HOMES AVAILABLE FOR LEASE / 42,532 HOLIDAY RENTALS
Some time ago now, in a hearing room in the NSW Parliament and before a bench of State MPs, sat Tim McKibbin, Chief Executive Officer, Real Estate Institute of NSW; beside him sat Rick Wraight, Director, Tea Gardens Real Estate and Holidaypaws (currently 99 homes plus 407 homes respectively short-term let). At the time Wraight was also Director of the Holiday Rental Industry Association, now ASTRA. The testimony given to Parliament by both men makes for interesting reading.


LOOKING TO HOUSE YOUR FAMILY? DON’T BOTHER WITH THESE AGENTS
According to Allhomes.com, Rebecca Cribbin is “Principal, Licensed Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer”. We’ve failed to find a website for her agency – Cribbin Blencowe Estate Agents Bowral, so can’t find details of any current rentals or homes for sale. Ms Cribbin’s Linkedin profile states she manages holiday rental properties for “busy investors – we look after everything, the advertising (including a listing on Airbnb, Stayz and booking.com)…our property owners hand everyt


NO IMMIGRATION, NO FOREIGN STUDENTS – SO WHERE’S OUR HOUSING GONE?
It’s Saturday, and many tenants who have been given notice by their landlords thanks to our ‘no grounds’ evictions, or those left homeless by catastrophic weather events, will be desperately searching for a home to rent. Up in Bundaberg, Real Estate Agent Scott Mackey told the Courier Mail this week: "... a growing population and rising rents means it's time for the region to embrace high-density housing.” Mr Mackey and his family members also run 35 Airbnbs between them,


HEARD THE NEWS? THERE’S A HOUSING CRISIS
The former NSW Minister for Planning, the Hon Rob Stokes, saw fit to accommodate the demands of and funded pleas from the likes of Richardson Coutts and Statecraft on behalf of Airbnb, and Barton Deakin, Hawker Britton and SEC Newgate on behalf of Expedia Aust/Stayz. Also in the corridors of the NSW Parliament, acting on behalf of Booking.com, are FTI Consulting and Nexus APAC. Concurrently, Minister Stokes had, seated on the benches of Parliament, colleagues who were profi