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Real Estate THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2020 FROM COAST TO COUNTRY WWW.TWEEDVALLEYWEEKLY.NET.AU Crackdown on short-term holiday rentals coming

By Jonathon Howard

THE CRACKDOWN on unruly short-term holiday rentals across the Tweed Shire is coming in the form of a new mandatory code of conduct from early December, which includes a twostrike provision via NSW Fair Trading.

Minister for Better Regulation and Innovation Kevin Anderson joined Member for Tweed Geoff Provest to announce the new code on Tuesday, October 27.

Minister Anderson said the code includes clear guidance and obligations for hosts and guests “centred on minimum standards of good behaviour”.

The launch of the short-term rental accommodation code will impact both hosts, guests, letting agents and online booking platforms such as Airbnb being subject to strict new laws with a mandatory code of conduct for the industry.

Also included are formal avenues for complaints and dispute resolution, and the ability for NSW Fair Trading to ban problematic hosts or anti-social guests from booking short-term rentals for five years.

“The popularity of short-term rentals has exploded in recent years and is now a $30 billion

Janene from Corporate Boardies, Geoff Provest Member for Tweed, Minister for Better Regulation and Innovation Kevin Anderson, The Hon Ben Franklin MP and Derek from Airbnb a year industry,” Mr Anderson are removed and the short-term “If you are going to carry on required to comply with the said. rental sector is improved for like that in someone else’s house code, and with directions and “While the sector has gone from strength to strength, what hosts, guests and communities.” Mr Anderson said a key or neighbourhood, be warned – under these new rules you will requests from the commissioner. has been missing is a clear set of feature of the new laws was the be banned, and for a very long The Department of Planning, rules to protect the rights of both establishment of an exclusion time. Industry and Environment is hosts, guests and neighbours, and which put mutual respect front and centre. register, which will introduce a ‘two strikes and you’re out’ policy for unruly guests. “The standards are enforceable, with powers available to [the] NSW Fair also developing a governmentrun premises register and

“The NSW Government is “We have all heard the horror Trading Commissioner to take State Environmental Planning introducing these laws as part of stories of hosts doing the wrong disciplinary action, including Policy for short-term rental our broad reform of the sector. “Together, they will ensure the thing or the house guests from hell behaving disgracefully in penalties and exclusion from the industry for repeat offenders.” accommodation, which will minority of participants who are holiday rentals,” Mr Anderson All participants, including round out the reforms to this giving the sector a bad name said. booking platforms, will be sector and launch in 2021.

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