As featured in the New Zealand Herald: 31st August 2016
Property managers have raised concerns about Airbnb in New Zealand.
An apartment property management group has raised security, noise and property damage issues over the rise of international rental business Airbnb and claimed the potential for an ‘unregulated nightmare’ without tougher rules.
But Airbnb has hit back, saying its system is built on trust and it has more than 16,000 New Zealand listings.
Joanne Barreto, Auckland-based Strata Community Association (NZ) president, called for more local regulations to govern Airbnb here because of the potential for issues to arise – and apartment owners and managers could be hardest hit.
“Complaints regarding noise, property damage and the flow on effects of high visitor traffic in residential complexes have long been on the radar of local property leaders, and they are calling for it to be addressed in law,” Barreto said.
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