Bulimba & Hawthorne

Airbnb Management in Bulimba

A riverside home is a different product to a CBD apartment. It attracts different guests, books in longer stays, and needs to be priced and presented accordingly.

Guaranteed:10%+ above long-term in your first 3 months — or you don't pay us. First 20 clients only

What could your Bulimba property earn?

Free, personalised income estimate — no obligation.

Why Bulimba is its own market

Four things a riverside home needs that a tower doesn't

Managers who only run CBD stock tend to apply CBD settings here — short minimum nights, city pricing, apartment-sized cleans. It leaves money on the table and wears the property out.

Your guest is a family, not a business traveller

Bulimba draws families, groups visiting relatives and people in town for a wedding or a long weekend — bookings that run longer than the CBD's one and two-night stays. That changes the listing, the pricing floor and the minimum-night settings.

The CityCat is the selling point

Oxford Street, the riverside walk and a ferry into the city are what make a Bulimba stay worth choosing over a CBD apartment. If a listing doesn't lead with that, it ends up competing on price with the towers instead of on lifestyle.

Houses and townhomes are more property to run

More bedrooms, more bathrooms, often a courtyard or garden — the turnover is bigger and the presentation bar is higher than a one-bedroom apartment. Cleaning has to be scoped for the property that actually exists.

Character homes need someone watching them

Older and character-style properties throw up things towers don't: timber floors, roof and plumbing issues, garden upkeep. We inspect regularly and act on small problems early, because on a short-stay property a slow leak becomes a floor replacement and a run of bad reviews.

We manage here already

A Bulimba townhome, run end to end

We manage a three-bedroom townhome in Bulimba — a light-filled property with a private courtyard, walking distance to the cafes and restaurants on Oxford Street and the riverside.

Running it is what taught us how this market behaves: who books it, how far ahead, how long they stay, and what a larger property actually costs to turn over properly between guests.

See the property
Bulimba townhome managed by Laurea Stays

What we handle

Everything, scoped to a larger property

Listing built around the family and group market
Professional photography and styling
Dynamic pricing with minimum-night settings tuned to longer stays
Listed across Airbnb, Booking.com, Stayz and VRBO
Guest screening and 24/7 guest communication
Cleaning, linen and garden/maintenance coordination
Regular inspections and trust accounting
No lock-in contracts

The Laurea Stays Performance Guarantee

Earn 10%+ more than long-term leasing in your first 3 months — or you don't pay us

If your average weekly payout over your first three months isn't at least 10% higher than what your property would have paid you as a long-term rental, we'll refund every management fee we've collected — or keep managing your property for free until we get you there.

Available to the first 20 owners who claim it.

Get My Income Estimate

* Comparison baseline is your property's assessed market long-term weekly rent less standard agency management fees — a like-for-like owner-payout comparison. Applies to your first three months of management. Available to the first 20 owners who claim it.