About 800 property owners will be contacted by the QLDC to remind them to change their registration details due to their use as short-term accommodation. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery.
Nearly 800 property owners in Wanaka and Queenstown advertising rooms or a house for short-term accommodation but paying residential rates on their property will be getting a letter from the Queenstown Lakes District Council reminding them to register the property as visitor accommodation.
A QLDC spokesperson said the council has been checking properties advertised for short term rent online to make sure they have the right resource consents and registered on the rates database correctly.
She said as a result of the audit 792 property owners will be contacted by the QLDC to remind them to change their registration details.
Properties that are reclassified as visitor accommodation will be charged higher rates from July 1.
