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Updated almost 4 years ago on . Most recent reply
"AirBnB" Hotel Planned for Austin's Rainey St.
You may soon be able to buy your own hotel room in Austin to operate as an AirBnB short-term rental. Miami-based NGD Homesharing plans to open a 33-story hotel in 2022 in the Rainey Street District and sell the individual units as condos. This is not a timeshare or fractional ownership model. The property will have hotel zoning, which requires that unit owners themselves can only reside in the building for a maximum of 30 days at a time. However, in partnership with AirBnB, owners may lease their units on a short-term/hotel basis like any other AirBnB property. Units will range in price from $300s to $1.2 million and be 454 sqft. to 1,390 sqft.
This is a clever way around Austin's current STR ordinance. If this were built like any other residential condominium tower, at most 25% of the unit owners would be allowed to operate a short-term rental, provided the condo association allows STR in the first place. Instead this property will be permitted, built, licensed, and operated as a hotel. You can check details here.
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Love the thought of this, similar done in Nashville and we recently picked up a STR management client there. Don't know how it's going to play out for the investor though.
AirBnB is charging ~25% and then our fee on top of that for management wipes out a ton of their profit. We will see how it plays out.