Carrie Bickmore wants to rent out her idle Byron Bay Airbnb
The Project co-host Carrie Bickmore is looking for long-term rental tenants for her $3m Byron Bay Airbnb property after the coronavirus restrictions on holidays has left the vacation home empty.
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A surge in empty Airbnb’s returning to traditional tenancy arrangements is being witnessed in the tourism town of Byron Bay.
Carrie Bickmore, co-host of The Project, was getting up to $1200 a night for Luxico, her Airbnb rental. But with the lockdown, she’s now sought full-time tenants.
It means a drop in revenue as the home has been offered at $2200 a week, one of 117 available for rent.
Her 1920s Massinger St property that cost $3 million in 2018 has been renovated and includes a pool and a hot tub.
The Airbnb crisis is creating distress for long-term landlords feeling the pinch when it comes to their property portfolios. Two weeks ago in Sydney’s Bondi Beach there were 277 properties for rent, but now it’s 337, according to realestate.com.au.
The recently sold $7.25 million Bondi Beach apartment of former cricket captain Michael Clarke was put up for rent at $4000 a week by its buyer Dana Lewis, wife of Oceana Fund’s David Lewis.
However, after market feedback, it is now available at $3500 through Sotheby’s International.
ROOM WITH A VIEW
The Elizabeth Bay apartment of the former NSW arts minister Don Harwin that has been listed with $1.2 million-plus hopes doesn’t have a balcony.
That is about to change with an application by the modernist 1968 complex residents to spend $5.8 million on the initiative. The Alexander Symes plans are with council.
LJ Hooker agent David Malouf advises the seventh-floor Roslyn Gardens apartment already has great views across the Rushcutters Bay foreshore.
It is the unit from which Harwin fled to Pearl Beach last month seeking the sea air but ending up with a $1000 fine for breaching public health orders. Harwin’s folly also triggered the halving of his salary to a backbencher’s $170,000.