The Gold Coast’s rental market has become increasingly competitive with less than one per cent rental vacancy rates.
This is due to low housing supply and increased interstate migration as border restrictions have lifted. As more homeowners rent their homes over purchasing them, tenants can be asked to leave with no reason and no consequence to the homeowner.
Tenants Queensland CEO Penny Carr says we need to change laws to protect tenants from being unreasonably evicted in an unstable COVID environment.