Brisbane uses big data and AI to crack down on Airbnb-style rentals

Deckard was founded in 2018 by a group of four Australians, including former senior Qualcomm executive Greg Rose. global tech giant.

However, slow action and the shrinking size of the Australian jurisdiction have led the company to focus more on the United States, where it now works with around 100 local governments.

Dr Thomas Sigler, associate professor of urban economic geography at the University of Queensland, said short-term rentals in Australia had fallen to almost half of their pre-pandemic peak, reaching around 266,000 as of July. .

About 51,000 of them are in Queensland, representing about 2-3% of the total housing stock, according to data provider AirDNA. This is even lower in Brisbane.

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Sigler attributes the delay in national regulation to a “wait-and-see” approach by governments waiting to trigger a move, or empirical evidence of the impact on the housing market, but these are still mostly does not exist.

“We finally have a catalyst,” he said. Record high vacancy raterents rise, shortage of social housing that provoked a summit of state governments Set for Thursday.

“What we are looking at is the specialization of these platforms. We are moving from the sharing economy to the platform economy.”

The NSW government requires platforms to share data on their own, Restrict short stay rentals in some areasthere is no such arrangement in Brisbane.

Susan Wheeldon, Airbnb’s Australia and New Zealand Manager, welcomes Queensland’s review and contribution to all reforms, including on registration, visitor levies and a code of conduct for hosts and guests. It called for a statewide approach.

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