WHITSUNDAY E-NEWS REAL ESTATE: 2nd week of March

Published on: Mar 16, 2021

Hi, I'm Annette Harm from PRD Whitsunday. Here with this week's e-news update.
This week, I want to talk about short-term holiday rentals and the visitors coming to the region here in the Whitsundays.

We see a real trend towards last-minute bookings, traditionally people are looking a long way ahead, but now we see border closures and the uncertainty of the COVID-19 world we live in.

It has been about 12 months since all of this started. We see a real trend towards last-minute bookings, with Easter only a few weeks around the corner.

I can tell you we are booked out, and there's nowhere to go. I thought maybe I'll go somewhere not too far away for a little bit of a getaway.

It's almost impossible to find anywhere to go over the Easter break all up and down the Queensland coast.
That's excellent news for our town as we know with Jobkeeper ending and the tourism industry traditionally struggling a little bit through COVID.

It is good to see that those occupancy levels are coming through.

We're also seeing quite a trend towards investors looking at holiday properties.

Investors, instead of spending money going on a holiday overseas or something like that, they're putting that money towards purchasing a property that they can then come to the Whitsundays as a holiday inn or rent out for the balance of the year.

So some interesting trends are happening in the accommodation sector.