Crackdown on Airbnb

SYDNEYSIDERS will only be able to rent out their homes or apartments on Airbnb for 180 days per year under new reforms set to be announced by the New South Wales Government.

The changes, understood to have been approved at a party room meeting yesterday morning, were expected to be announced later in the day.

Under the proposed new restrictions, an apartment complex can block the building from being used as an Airbnb property if 75 per cent of strata owners vote against it.