Brisbane City Council will deliver an ultimatum to property owners renting homes or apartments on short-stay accommodation platforms: deliver them back to the rental market or face a 50 per cent jump in their rates.
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner revealed the move, amid rising cost of living pressures and a shortage of available rental properties, before he hands down the council’s $4 billion budget on Wednesday morning.Schrinner said if owners chose to list entire properties, not individual rooms, on the platforms “that is their choice”, but they would face a significant increase in their rates bill under Australia’s largest local government.
After the Gold Coast announced a 4.3 per cent rise in its average residential rates on Tuesday, Schrinner said the average Brisbane property owner would experience a lower increase of less than $160 a year.He would not be drawn on what the average rate increase would be, leaving that for his budget announcements and speech scheduled for later on Wednesday.
New inner-city Brisbane federal Greens MPs, who picked up three seats from Labor and the LNP at the recent federal election, have suggested discontent among rentersIn 2020, Greens candidates polled more than 20 per cent — and even 30 per cent — of the primary vote across seven of the 26 wards making up the country’s largest local government, largely behind LNP administration councillors.
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