Perth Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Perth and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that Western Australia never banned short-term rentals and hasn't tried to, so the answer here is a yes rather than the flat no you'd get in a handful of other cities. What changed is the paperwork around it. Since 1 January 2025 it has been an offence to advertise or take a booking for a Western Australian property that isn't on the state's Short-Term Rental Accommodation Register, and getting on that register costs $250 up front and $100 every year after.

The catch sits in the second layer, which is planning, and that's where 2026 bites. Hosted stays, meaning you're living on the property while your guests are there, need no council approval anywhere in the state. Un-hosted stays, where guests get the whole dwelling to themselves, are exempt across the Perth metropolitan area only up to 90 nights in a 12-month period. Go past 90 and you need development approval from your local government, and the two systems are now wired together: the state's own media release says that from 1 January 2026, properties must demonstrate they meet development approval requirements in order to remain registered.

So let's walk through what it takes to do this properly in the City of Perth and the wider metro region: what the register asks for, what registration and approval cost, the tax layers that attach to a stay, how hard any of it gets enforced, and who to ring when you get stuck. Every figure below comes from Western Australian government or City of Perth pages read in July 2026, and where something is still moving I've said so. Before you commit to any of it, run the property through BNBCalc first.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Perth, Australia?

Those numbers only mean something once you know which rulebook you're in, and in Perth there are two of them sitting on top of each other.

The first is the Short-Term Rental Accommodation Act 2024, which created the statewide register. Section 4 defines a short-term rental arrangement as one where residential premises go to the same person or people for periods not exceeding a total of three months in any 12-month period. That's the boundary. A guest who stays longer than three months in a year drops out of the STRA regime and may fall under the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 instead, assuming the stay isn't a holiday.

Section 9 then makes it an offence to enter into, or seek to enter into, one of these arrangements for premises that aren't registered. The fine attached to it is $20,000.

The second rulebook is planning, and it arrived through the Planning and Development (Local Planning Schemes) Amendment (Short-Term Rental Accommodation) Regulations 2024, published on 18 September 2024. Those regulations wrote two new land uses into every local planning scheme in the state, and the distinction between them decides almost everything:

• Hosted short-term rental accommodation is STRA in a dwelling where the owner or occupier lives at the same dwelling, or in another dwelling on the same lot. A granny flat you let while you live in the main house counts.
• Un-hosted short-term rental accommodation is everything else, capped at a maximum of 12 people per night. Go over 12 and you're no longer in this category at all, which pushes the proposal into tourist and visitor accommodation territory.

Hosted STRA is exempt from development approval right across Western Australia.

Un-hosted STRA in the Perth metropolitan area gets its own exemption, though the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage is clear that three conditions come with it, and all three have to hold at once. The dwelling has to be registered under Part 3 of the STRA Act. It has to be used for no more than 90 non-consecutive nights in the relevant 12-month period. And it can't sit in a zone where un-hosted STRA is a class X use or is inconsistent with the objectives of that zone.

Miss any one of those and clause 61(9) of the deemed provisions kicks in, which requires development approval regardless of what a local planning policy says.

Keep in mind that the 90-night clock isn't a financial year or a calendar year. The regulations tie it to the day you registered the dwelling and every anniversary after that, so your reset date is personal to your property.

The City of Perth then layers its own scheme on top, and it finished doing so this year. Council adopted amendments to City Planning Scheme No. 2, Local Planning Scheme No. 26 and Town Planning Scheme No. 4 on 9 December 2025, and they were published in the Government Gazette on 27 February 2026. Un-hosted STRA now sits as a 'Contemplated' use under CPS2 and LPS26 and a 'Discretionary' use under TPS4, with the old 'Bed and Breakfast', 'Motel' and 'Serviced Apartments' terms deleted.

One detail there is worth knowing before you apply. After Council sent the amendment up, the Minister for Planning directed that permissibility in Residential zones be changed to 'Advertising', so an application in a residential zone gets publicly advertised and your neighbours get a say.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Perth

Since your neighbours may now get a say on the un-hosted version, the shape of the business you choose still matters more here than the address does. There are three shapes available, and they carry very different amounts of friction.

The lightest is hosted: a spare room, or the granny flat while you live in the house. No development approval anywhere in WA, no neighbour advertising, no 90-night ceiling. You still register, and you still report bookings, but the planning system leaves you alone.

The middle option is un-hosted under 90 nights, which is what the state designed the exemption for. The Department describes it as catering for owners letting out their own home while they're away on holiday. It works cleanly, though be aware that the register counts the nights for you and sends reminders as you hit 80 and 90 nights booked, so you can't drift past the line without noticing.

The heaviest is un-hosted as a permanent business, and that one needs development approval from the City of Perth before you start. Expect up to 90 days for a determination where advertising is required, per the Department's own guidance.

Most people underestimate that third one.

Three things narrow the field before you get that far. Most of what you'd want to buy in Central Perth or East Perth is strata, and a strata or community titles scheme can shut the whole plan down. The state's own FAQ says a lot can be used as STRA "unless a by-law prohibits STRA", and contravening such a by-law risks suspension or cancellation of your registration.

Tenants can operate one too, though only where the tenancy agreement doesn't prohibit it and the owner has been squared away first. And if you were counting on the state's exit ramp, it's closed. The $10,000 STRA Incentive Scheme, which paid un-hosted owners to move a property onto a 12-month lease, now carries a notice saying it "has closed early after all available funds were fully allocated".

As for how crowded the market is, the register finally gives a real answer instead of a scrape. Consumer Protection reported in July 2025 that 11,556 STRA properties were registered statewide, with 46% of them in the Perth metropolitan area and 27% in the South West. That's the whole legal supply, counted by the regulator rather than estimated. Set that against what a specific address would earn in BNBCalc before you decide whether the un-hosted path is worth the approval.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Perth

Whichever of those three shapes you land on, registration is the step none of them skips. There's no separate council licence in Perth, no annual permit and no inspection regime.

The register is the licence, and Consumer Protection runs it, not the City.

The fees are set in regulation 14 of the Short-Term Rental Accommodation Regulations 2024 and, as of July 2026, the department's registration page still lists $250 to apply and $100 to renew. The early-bird waiver that ran from July to September 2024 is long gone, and the regulations only ever allowed the Commissioner to waive the fee during the first three months of the scheme, so budget for the full amount.

Registration lasts exactly one year from the day it completes, under section 22 of the Act. Renewal has a window rather than a deadline, and it's tighter than people expect: section 23 lets you apply no earlier than two months before the registration period ends and no later than 28 days after it ends.

Remember that a renewal is assessed the same way as a first application, so anything that changed during the year gets looked at again. That's the mechanism behind the biggest 2026 change. The government's media release announcing the register states that from 1 January 2026, STRA properties must demonstrate they meet development approval requirements in order to remain registered, and a renewal is where that gets tested.

You don't need approval in hand to register, mind you. The register asks you to declare the status of your development approval, whether it's approved with a number, submitted, refused, not obtained, or simply permitted by your zone, and to come back and add the approval number once it's granted. Failing to get an approval you actually needed is grounds for suspension or cancellation under section 24.

Three obligations then run for as long as the listing does:

• Display the registration number. Every advertisement has to carry it conspicuously. A listing for unregistered premises, one with no number, or one with a false number is a prohibited advertisement, and sections 10 to 12 of the Act put a $20,000 fine on each of the provider, the agent, the advertising publication and the booking platform.
• Report every booking. Airbnb, Stayz, Vrbo and Booking.com feed the register by API within 24 hours. Anything booked outside those platforms is on you, and regulation 13 requires it by the 5th day of the following calendar month, with a $5,000 penalty for missing it.
• Notify changes. Section 28 covers things like ceasing to own the property or a change in registered particulars, and the fine for not telling the Commissioner is $5,000.

Going over 90 un-hosted nights adds a separate cost and a separate process. Schedule 2 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2009 caps the fee for determining a change-of-use application at $295, which is modest enough. What isn't modest is item 11 of that same schedule, which adds "twice that fee" by way of penalty where the change of use has already commenced. Start letting first and apply later, and the same application costs you $885.

Required Documents for Perth Short-Term Rentals

Since that development application is priced to punish people who start early, it's worth getting the paperwork together before anything goes live. The two processes ask for very different things, so it helps to keep them apart in your head.

The register itself asks for no supporting documents at all. What it asks for instead is a set of declarations, and regulation 10 sets out exactly what goes on the record:

• Whether you're the owner or a tenant, and if a tenant, whether your tenancy agreement prohibits using the premises as STRA.
• Whether the property is in a strata or community titles scheme, and whether the scheme by-laws prohibit STRA.
• Whether at least two residual current devices are installed.
• Whether smoke alarms comply with Part 8 Division 3 of the Building Regulations 2012.
• Whether there's a private swimming pool available to guests and, if so, whether its barrier was inspected in the four years to the date of your most recent application.
• Whether you'll provide food and, if so, whether the local government has been notified under the Food Act 2008.

The state is upfront that the register won't block you for answering no to any of these, because it's an information-gathering exercise and the answers get passed to the regulators who do enforce them.

Don't take that as permission to skip the smoke alarms, though. You've put your answer in writing to a government register, and the local government and the fire service both receive it.

The development application pack is where the real work sits, and the City of Perth spells it out in Local Planning Policy 3.9, amended in December 2025. Every un-hosted application needs a management plan, and the policy lists what has to be in it:

• The property manager's details, check-in and check-out hours, and the booking procedure.
• Minimum and maximum stay lengths, maximum guests, and how visitors are managed.
• Designated on-site parking bays, or transport alternatives where there aren't any.
• Waste and cleaning arrangements, plus access rules for any communal facilities.
• A complaints procedure, a guest code of conduct, and an emergency response and evacuation plan.

That complaints procedure isn't a formality either. It has to include a written register recording each complainant's name and contact details, the complaint itself, and what was done about it.

Strata applicants carry two extra items. You need a letter from the strata company confirming that no by-law prohibits un-hosted STRA in individual lots and that no by-law prohibits or controls guest use of common property. You also need site and floor plans marking every area guests will reach, including car bays, lifts, pool and gym. Do check the lock box rule while you're there, since the policy says a lock box must not be visible from the street.

Three operating conditions from that same policy shape the property itself. Occupancy is capped at two people per bedroom and six per dwelling. Any car parking provided for the dwelling has to be available to the STRA. Signage goes on the front or entrance door, no larger than an A4 sheet, unlit, and carrying the property manager's current phone number.

Perth Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you get through all that and are able to start hosting, there's still tax to deal with, though Perth is unusually gentle on this front. Western Australia charges no bed tax, no short-stay levy and no tourism levy. The Department of Treasury's Overview of State Taxes and Royalties 2025-26 lists every state tax, duty, levy and royalty there is, and nothing resembling an accommodation levy appears in it. Victoria, by contrast, has charged a short stay levy on Victorian bookings since 1 January 2025.

What you do pay is the ordinary property and income stack:

Charge	Rate	Who charges it
Council rates, residential	6.26235 cents in the dollar of rateable value, minimum $805	City of Perth
Emergency Services Levy	1.5216 cents in the dollar, minimum $108, residential maximum $533	DFES, billed on the City's rates notice
Land tax	Nil to $300,000 of unimproved value, $300 flat to $420,000, then 0.25% rising to 2.67%	RevenueWA
Metropolitan Region Improvement Tax	0.14% of unimproved value above $300,000	RevenueWA
GST on residential rent	None. Residential rent is input taxed	Australian Taxation Office
Income tax on rental income	Your marginal rate	Australian Taxation Office
Short-stay or accommodation levy	None in Western Australia	n/a

The rates figures come from the City of Perth's differential rates adopted on 15 July 2025 for the 2025/26 year. Note what isn't in that table: there's no short-stay category at all. Residential sits at 6.26235 cents, Hotel at 7.32376 and Commercial at 7.03187. I couldn't find a council statement on whether an approved un-hosted STRA gets reclassified out of Residential, so treat that as an open question for the City rather than a settled number.

Land tax is the layer most Perth hosts get caught by, and the trigger is which property it is rather than how you let it. Your principal place of residence is exempt, so a spare room, or a 60-night stint on Airbnb while you're overseas, changes nothing.

A second dwelling bought to run un-hosted is a different story. It's taxable on unimproved value above the $300,000 threshold, and inside the metropolitan region the Metropolitan Region Improvement Tax adds 0.14% on the same base. Both are assessed on values at midnight on 30 June.

GST is the pleasant surprise. The ATO's guidance on renting out all or part of your home says plainly that you don't pay GST on residential rent, and that GST only enters the picture for commercial residential premises such as a boarding house. The flip side is that you can't claim GST credits on your expenses either, so you deduct the GST-inclusive amount instead.

Capital gains tax is the one that surprises people years later. Renting any part of your main residence for money costs you part of the main residence exemption, apportioned by floor area and by days.

The ATO's worked example is worth reading in full. On a $120,000 gain, where the guest area came to 35% of floor space and the room was let for 1,857 of 2,192 days of ownership, $35,582 of the gain became taxable before the 50% discount. Make sure you keep platform statements and receipts from day one, because that calculation is impossible to reconstruct later.

Australia Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

That CGT rule is federal rather than Western Australian, which is a useful reminder that some of the layers you're dealing with sit above the state entirely. Australia has no national short-term rental licence and no national register. Each state and territory does its own thing, which is why Perth's 90-night exemption looks nothing like Victoria's short stay levy. Three areas of law, though, reach every Australian host no matter which state they're in.

Taxation

The Australian Taxation Office treats short-stay income as ordinary assessable income, and it's rare for a host to be carrying on a business, so this normally lands in your individual return rather than in a company. Deductions are apportioned to the part of the property the guest used and the time they used it. GST stays out of it for residential premises, as covered above, which also means that hitting the $75,000 turnover threshold doesn't drag you into GST registration for the rent itself.

Booking platforms report to the ATO as well. The office says outright that it collects data from sharing economy accommodation platforms to identify people earning income this way, so your bookings show up in its systems whether or not you declare them. Declare all of it, keep the records, and treat the platform's annual statement as the starting point rather than the whole picture.

Strata Regulations

Strata is where Australian hosts most often lose the argument, and Western Australia is no exception. A strata or community titles scheme can prohibit short-term rental accommodation through its by-laws, and the state register asks you to declare whether yours does. Contravene a by-law and you don't only face the strata company, you risk having your registration suspended or cancelled under section 24 of the STRA Act.

Two practical consequences follow. Read the by-laws before you buy rather than after, and get the strata company's written confirmation in the form the City of Perth wants, since you'll need that same letter for a development application anyway. Then watch out for by-laws that don't ban STRA outright but restrict guest use of common property, because a scheme can stop guests using the pool, gym or visitor bays without banning the letting itself.

Landgate runs a Strata Enquiry Line on (08) 9273 7047 for anything the strata manager can't settle.

Discrimination Laws

Anti-discrimination law applies to accommodation the same way it applies to employment, and in Western Australia the operative statute is the Equal Opportunity Act 1984. Section 21 makes it unlawful to refuse someone's application for accommodation, to offer it on different terms, or to defer their application, on grounds including sex, marital status, pregnancy and breastfeeding, with parallel accommodation provisions covering the other protected attributes. Commonwealth anti-discrimination law sits over the top of that.

There's a narrow carve-out that catches hosted operators specifically. Section 21(3) excludes premises where the provider or a near relative lives on site and the accommodation offered is for no more than three people other than the provider and their relatives. A small hosted room-share can fall inside it; an un-hosted whole-home listing never will. The Equal Opportunity Commission handles complaints by conciliation and refers unresolved matters to the State Administrative Tribunal.

Does Perth Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Yes, though enforcement here rarely reaches a tribunal or an inspector at the door. It looks more like a database quietly reconciling itself. That's a meaningful difference, because the usual way operators absorb enforcement risk, treating occasional fines as a cost of doing business, doesn't work against a system that counts your nights automatically.

Start with the register's own plumbing. Airbnb, Stayz, Vrbo and Booking.com are integrated by API, and they push every booking, change and cancellation into the register within 24 hours. The register tallies your nights and sends you reminders at 80 and 90, so by the time you cross the metro exemption the regulator already knows. Nights you block out for your own use don't count, which is fair, but every paid booking does.

The penalties then stack across three separate Acts. Operating unregistered premises carries a $20,000 fine under section 9 of the STRA Act, and Schedule 1 of the regulations sets a $2,000 on-the-spot infringement for the same offence, which is what an authorised officer can issue without going near a court. Advertising an unregistered property attracts fines of up to $20,000 for an individual and $100,000 for a corporation.

Running an un-hosted STRA past 90 nights without approval is a different animal, though, because it's an offence against a planning scheme. Section 223 of the Planning and Development Act 2005 sets a general penalty of $200,000, plus a further $25,000 for each day the offence continues. That daily component is the one to take seriously, because it isn't a one-off fine. It accrues, and that's exactly where owners get badly hurt.

The City of Perth has also built a slow enforcement mechanism into its approvals rather than relying on prosecution. Policy 3.9 lets it grant an un-hosted approval for an initial period of twelve months where suitability depends on how well the property is managed, and when you apply to continue, the assessment explicitly considers the management arrangements over that year and any complaints received. Since you're also required to keep a written complaints register, the evidence for or against you is something you compiled yourself.

Two softer levers round it out. The register is publicly searchable, so a neighbour, a strata manager or a competitor can check whether your address is registered and whether the number in your listing is real.

And the register's data goes to local governments and other regulators as a matter of course. That's how a property that never applied for approval ends up on a council's radar without anyone complaining.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Perth

Given how much of that enforcement runs off your own declarations, the order you do things in genuinely matters. Working through the steps below out of sequence is what turns a $295 application into an $885 one.

1. Decide hosted or un-hosted, and be honest about it. Hosted means you live at the same dwelling or another dwelling on the same lot during the stay. That single choice removes the development approval question entirely.
2. Check the strata by-laws and your lease. Get written confirmation from the strata company that no by-law prohibits un-hosted STRA or restricts guest use of common property. Tenants need a tenancy agreement that permits subletting, and a conversation with the owner first.
3. Ring the City of Perth before you apply for anything. Confirm which scheme covers your address, since CPS2, LPS26 and TPS4 treat un-hosted STRA differently, and ask whether your zone triggers the 'Advertising' permissibility the Minister directed for Residential zones.
4. Work out your night count. Under 90 un-hosted nights in your registration year and you're exempt from development approval in metro Perth. Over it, apply for approval before you take a single booking.
5. Lodge the development application if you need one. Budget $295, up to 90 days for a determination where advertising is required, and a management plan built to Policy 3.9. Applying after you've started letting triples the fee.
6. Register on the STRA Register. The owner or tenant has to start the registration even where a property manager will finish it. Pay the $250, answer the safety declarations honestly, and record your development approval status.
7. Put the registration number in every advertisement, on every platform, conspicuously. Then go back and update the register with your approval number once the City grants it.
8. Set up booking reporting on day one. Platform bookings flow through automatically. Direct bookings are yours to enter by the 5th of the following month.
9. Diarise your renewal. Registration runs 12 months from the day it completed, the renewal window opens two months before it ends, and from 2026 the renewal is where your development approval compliance gets checked.

Who to Contact in Perth about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Whichever of those steps stalls, four offices handle nearly all of it between them, and knowing which one owns your question saves an afternoon.

Registration, fees and booking reports

The Short-Term Rental Accommodation Register sits inside Consumer Protection at the Department of Local Government, Industry Regulation and Safety. This is the first call for registering, renewing, fees, and anything to do with reporting bookings.

• Address: Level 2, 140 William Street, Perth WA 6000
• Phone: 1300 304 054
• Email: [email protected]
• Booking-report help: (08) 6251 1234
• Online: the STRA Register pages carry the registration portal, the public registration check and the heat map

Development approval, zoning and local planning policy

The City of Perth determines development applications for un-hosted STRA in Central Perth, East Perth, Northbridge, West Perth, Claisebrook and Crawley-Nedlands, and administers Policy 3.9.

• Address: Council House, 27 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000
• Postal: City of Perth, GPO Box C120, Perth WA 6839
• Phone: (08) 9461 3333
• Email: [email protected]
• Hours: Customer Experience Centre, Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm
• Rates enquiries: (08) 9461 3296

If your property sits in one of the other 29 metro councils covered by the 90-night exemption, from Stirling and Vincent to Fremantle, Cockburn and Wanneroo, the same questions go to that council instead. The exemption is state policy. The approval is always local.

The state planning framework

General questions about the STRA planning regulations themselves, rather than about your specific application, go to the Tourism Policy Team at the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage on (08) 6551 8002. They also maintain the planning reforms page with the full list of the 30 metropolitan local governments.

Strata and discrimination

Strata by-law questions go to Landgate's Strata Enquiry Line on (08) 9273 7047. Discrimination complaints go to the Equal Opportunity Commission on 08 9216 3900 or 1800 198 149, 9:00am to 4:00pm Monday to Friday, which conciliates first and refers unresolved matters to the State Administrative Tribunal.

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Perth on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Those phone numbers get dialled a lot at the moment, because the sector is still absorbing a scheme that only became fully operational this year. What follows is my read of the public conversation rather than any kind of survey, so do weigh it accordingly. I searched the Perth and Australian property forums directly while researching this and found very little Perth-specific discussion of the STRA rules, so the themes below lean on what the record shows.

• The register landed better than the fee did. Registration is a form, not an inspection, and the state was explicit that it wouldn't refuse anyone for answering no to a safety question. The $250 and then $100 a year is the part that grates, because it's the same amount whether you take three bookings or 300.
• The 90-night line is the real argument. It's generous next to a hard cap, and WA deliberately avoided caps. Still, it splits the market in two, and anyone running year-round un-hosted lettings in metro Perth now needs an approval, a management plan and, in residential zones, a public process where neighbours can object.
• Nobody is arguing any more that the rules go unenforced. That debate ended when the platforms integrated by API. A listing on Airbnb or Stayz reports its own nights, and the register counts them.
• The exit ramp closing stung. The $10,000 incentive to move a property to a 12-month lease had converted 487 properties by July 2025, and it's now closed after the funds ran out. Owners who were weighing that option no longer have it.

My own read, and it's a read rather than a fact: WA built one of the more workable frameworks in the country by regulating hosted and un-hosted differently instead of treating every listing the same. The friction sits where the housing-supply argument sits, on whole dwellings let year-round. Before you pick a side of that line, the Perth market numbers will tell you what an un-hosted listing clears against a long-term lease.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you need a licence to run an Airbnb in Perth in 2026?

You need registration rather than a licence. Every short-term rental in Western Australia must be listed on the state's Short-Term Rental Accommodation Register before it can be advertised or take a booking, and that has been mandatory since 1 January 2025. Registration costs $250 to apply and $100 a year to renew, lasts 12 months, and is administered by the Department of Local Government, Industry Regulation and Safety. There is no separate City of Perth licence.

How does Perth's 90-night short-term rental rule work?

An un-hosted property in the Perth metropolitan area can be let for up to 90 non-consecutive nights in a 12-month period without development approval from the local government. The 12-month period runs from the date the dwelling was registered on the STRA Register, then each anniversary. The exemption also requires the property to be registered and not to sit in a zone where un-hosted short-term rental accommodation is prohibited or inconsistent with zone objectives. Hosted stays face no night limit anywhere in Western Australia.

What happens if you rent a Perth property on Airbnb without registering it?

Entering into a short-term rental arrangement for unregistered premises is an offence under section 9 of the Short-Term Rental Accommodation Act 2024, carrying a fine of $20,000 or a $2,000 infringement notice. Advertising unregistered premises attracts up to $20,000 for an individual and $100,000 for a corporation, and applies to the booking platform as well as the owner. Operating an un-hosted rental past 90 nights without development approval is a separate planning offence carrying up to $200,000 plus $25,000 for each day it continues.

Does Western Australia charge a short-stay levy on Airbnb bookings?

No. Western Australia has no short-stay levy, no bed tax and no tourism levy, and none appears in the Department of Treasury's overview of every state tax and royalty for 2025-26. Victoria has charged a short stay levy on its bookings since 1 January 2025, but nothing equivalent applies in Perth. Western Australian hosts pay council rates, the Emergency Services Levy, land tax and the Metropolitan Region Improvement Tax where the property is not their principal residence, plus income tax.

Can a strata company stop you letting a Perth apartment on Airbnb?

Yes. A strata or community titles scheme can prohibit short-term rental accommodation through its by-laws, and the Western Australian register requires you to declare whether your scheme's by-laws do so. Operating in breach of such a by-law is a ground for suspending or cancelling your registration under section 24 of the Short-Term Rental Accommodation Act 2024. The City of Perth also requires a letter from the strata company confirming no such by-law exists before it will approve an un-hosted application.

Last verified: July 2026. Every ordinance, tax rate, state law, and contact detail in this guide links to or comes from its official source.