06/06/2026
๐ก Long-term rentals are boring now. Airbnb is the way.
Everyone in property keeps talking about long-term rentals like they are still the only option.
I think the reason Airbnb is not spoken about properly is simple. Most property people do not actually understand it.
The old playbook:
โ Buy a property
โ Rent it out long term
โ Negative gear it
โ Hold it
โ Hope for capital growth
For years, that worked.
But with the CGT and negative gearing changes, buying something that loses money from day one, hoping growth fixes it later, is becoming harder to justify.
Why buy negatively geared from day dot when you could buy something designed to be positive from day dot?
This Perth Airbnb just took a 20-day booking worth more than four months of normal long-term rent. One booking. More than four months of rent.
Most buyerโs agents understand:
โ Long-term rent
โ Rental yield
โ Suburb data
โ Purchase price
But that does not mean they understand Airbnb.
Airbnb needs a different lens:
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Guest demand
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Nightly rates
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Booking behaviour
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Setup costs
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Furnishing
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Photos
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Reviews
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Pricing
I have spent years building this. We do not just buy Airbnb properties. We buy them, optimise them, price them, manage them & see the results in real time.
Most buyerโs agents stop once the property settles.
With Airbnb, that is where the real work starts.
Anyone can say, โthis could work as an Airbnb.โ
Very few understand what happens after it goes live.
