2017-04-11 P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 1 Housing Needs Assessment

Short Term Rental Accommodation
There are a range of types of non-commercial18 Short Term Rental Accommodation, with the
most common being in-house visitor accommodation. In this report this has been termed “Short
Term Rental Accommodation”. Approximately 1700 dwellings or rooms in Noosa Shire were
advertised on the largest short term rental sites19 in August 2016, with by far the majority of these
on the eastern beaches, especially Sunshine Beach and Peregian Beach. A large number were also
listed in Noosa Heads and to a lesser extent, in Noosaville.

The Holiday Rental Industry Association (HRIA) was launched in February 2013 as a national peak
industry body for Australia’s holiday rental industry. One of the key objectives of the HRIA is to
promote the sustainable development of the industry through enhancing industry standards and
promoting self regulation in cooperation with Local Government and other stakeholders.

The industry Code of Conduct has been developed and refined over several years to provide a
self regulatory approach in the management of holiday and short term rentals. This approach has
been used in some areas and has been found to be successful in managing amenity impacts
associated with holiday rentals.

The position of the HRIA is that there is no economic or social utility in having residential
accommodation vacant. They identify many social and economic reasons that Short Term Rental
Accommodation is required, not simply for holidays, and that there are many beneficial impacts
of utilising otherwise unused accommodation.




18
     i.e. accommodation not commercially obtained, e.g. through real estate agents.

19
     Some may be listed on both sites, so counted twice. However there are other similar sites.



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