The rental market appears to hold strong for investors, with supply in many areas continuing to fall short of demand. ezyAPP continues to process hundreds of applications per week for a reduced selection of properties, resulting in a low office…
Starting the journey back to normal tenancy arrangements In April this year, the Queensland Government acted quickly to legislate its COVID-19 response for residential tenancies, implementing among other measures a 6-month moratorium for rent arrears caused by COVID-19 impacts between…
The Queensland Government has announced changes to some COVID-19 arrangements for residential tenancies from 30 September. The six-month eviction moratorium to protect COVID-19 impacted tenants, which has been in place since 29 March 2020, will cease to apply from 30 September…
Protecting Your Investment and Your Tenants To mark the beginning of Electrical Safety Week (7-11 Sept), the Electrical Safety Office (ESO) recently hosted a webinar for property owners and agents regarding electrical safety in rental properties. The webinar explains how…
Ending Domestic & Family Violence – A Community Responsibility Domestic and Family Violence has come out of the shadows as all levels of government nurture programs designed to battle this deadly social disease which claims the lives of two Australians…
A recent survey conducted by the REIQ revealed that property managers proactively negotiated an additional 14% of temporary rent reduction requests beyond the COVID-19 Emergency Response Regulation, representing over 10,800 residential tenancies. That’s more than double the amount of qualified…
How COVID-19 has changed the way we do things… for the better While COVID-19 has stopped many industries in their tracks, some (like the property management industry) have been forced to make dramatic changes to enable us to continue our…
Article by the Residential Tenancies Authority, 15 May 2020 The Residential Tenancies Authority (RTA) has assisted Queenslanders facing financial hardship due to COVID-19 to successfully negotiate 442 temporary rental agreements since new tenancy laws were passed three weeks ago. Click…
The COVID-19 crisis has put digital solutions front and centre of how we do business. Although Digital Signing technology has been around for years, the consumer market was slow on the uptake due to old habits dying hard. There was…
Article by Jessica Marszalek, state political editor, The Courier-Mail – May 2, 2020. THOUSANDS of Queenslanders will be asked to open their hearts and homes to families escaping domestic violence in a game-changing response as the COVID-19 lockdown intensifies horrific abuse….
After several weeks of uncertainty, an unbalanced initial proposal from the state government, a valiant advocacy effort on the REIQ’s part, and a strong backlash from property owners throughout Queensland, the new COVID-19 Tenancy Laws were finally passed on 24th…
The Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) is seeking urgent action from the Queensland State Government to assist in maintaining the stability of the Queensland property market in the face of the economic impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. “Queensland’s…
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