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Airbnb reveal Australian transtasman interest bounces back at twice rate of Kiwis
12 May, 2021 05:04 AM
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Aussies are searching for NZ BnBs at four times the rate they were a month ago: Mountain Tiny House Warburton, Victoria. Photo / Supplied
Aussies are searching for NZ BnBs at four times the rate they were a month ago: Mountain Tiny House Warburton, Victoria. Photo / Supplied
The quarantine-free travel zone between Australia and New Zealand is almost a month old.
Since April 19, families and friends have been able to freely able to fly between the two countries with little disruption and many predict demand will only grow with confidence.
Oh well, I thought, watching this unfold. At least people who can’t afford to buy in the city can move to the country.
After all, that’s what I did in 2016 when I found my meagre deposit could either get me a 45sqm box in Melbourne with one source of light and a storage cage in a building that was problematically clad - or a very charming miners cottage an hour or so outside the city.
I chose the latter, as did friends who worked in industries that were volatile, like the arts or media. A smaller mortgage provides some protection against lean years or shocks to your industry such as a pandemic or freelance work coming and going. (It is also broadly the advice of the closest thing Australia has to a national guru: the barefoot investor, Scott Pape).