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Want to select your seat on for a flight? It could cost you $100.

The 13 travel rip-offs we keep paying for

Want to choose your airline seat? Check in to your hotel early? Park your car at the airport? Prepare to be gouged.

  • Ben Groundwater

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The Avani Mooloolaba Beach is the first new full-service hotel to hit the Sunshine Coast in 40 years.

‘Outbid every day of the week’: Why hotels are losing the war for city land

Brisbane faces a huge shortfall of hotel rooms for the 2032 Olympics. One developer has a business model that works, but he can’t get the land.

  • Marissa Calligeros
Short-stay accommodation in WA’s regions outnumber long-term rentals by a ratio of 15 to one in some areas.

The hidden cost of WA’s holiday homes in the middle of a housing crisis

What is our vast holiday accommodation choice doing to the long-term rental market?

  • Kath Snell
The international symbol of an unhosted short-term stay, a key lock box, in front of a home in Millers Point, Sydney.

‘It’s a sophisticated business’: New calls for regulation in the short-stay market

It was marketed as a “side hustle” to rent out the spare room, but new data shows more than half the listings with one major platform are managed by accounts with two or more properties.

  • Wes Mountain
The Trump Organisation said the tower would have been the tallest on the Gold Coast. It would not have been much taller than Q1, despite what this render image suggested.

‘Empty promises’: $1.5b Trump Tower on Gold Coast axed

The man behind a petition calling for the development to be rejected claimed victory after the deal for a luxury hotel collapsed.

  • Marissa Calligeros, Catherine Strohfeldt and William Davis
Low and medium density suburbs could soon be Airbnb free.

Schrinner ditches Airbnb crackdown, blames federal budget

Plans to ban short-stay accommodation in some Brisbane areas and require operators to apply for a permit have been scrapped.

  • William Davis
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A Woolworths automated distribution centre.

Property play: Woolies extends warehouse lease derailing billionaire’s $155m deal

Billionaire Harry Stamoulis’ deal to sell a Woolworths warehouse stalls at the final hurdle.

  • Nicole Lindsay
There’s a direct correlation between hotel rooftop pools and the activation of holiday-mode.

Target price revealed as hotel under Story Bridge listed for sale

The hotel was sold in 2021 for about $70 million. Amid a shortage of hotels in Brisbane, its owners are now seeking a lot more.

  • William Davis
Tune Hotels has sold 540 Flinders Street to Hotel101 for more than $25 million.

Filipinos’ Flinders Street plan: Melbourne’s largest hotel with 766 rooms

A Philippines-based hotel developer has quietly snapped up a Flinders Street development site for more than $25 million and is planning to build a 766-room hotel.

  • Nicole Lindsay
402-416 Chapel Street, South Yarra

Spotlight and Anaconda’s billionaires just sold this patch of dirt in Chapel Street for $65m

And in an interesting quid pro quo, the buyer is understood to be none other than prolific property developer Bill McNee.

  • Nicole Lindsay