Gold Coast
Airbnb management on the Gold Coast
Brisbane-based and owner-operated. A licensed Queensland agency that manages apartments and holiday homes for owners across South East Queensland, now taking on Gold Coast properties.
Guaranteed:10%+ above long-term in your first 3 months — or you don't pay us. First 20 clients, eligible properties onlyWhat could your Gold Coast property earn?
Free, personalised income estimate in writing — no obligation.
Why the Gold Coast is its own market
Four things a Gold Coast property needs from its manager
A coast apartment or holiday home is a different product to a city one. It books differently, it is priced differently and it is run inside buildings with their own rules.
The Gold Coast calendar is a holiday calendar
School holidays, Christmas and New Year, long weekends and the big event weeks move Gold Coast nightly rates far more than a lease ever moves. A property priced on one flat rate gives its best weeks away and sits empty in the quiet ones. Pricing here has to be reset daily against what the coast is actually doing that week.
Most of it is high-rise, and the building has rules
Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach and Main Beach are towers, with body corporates, building managers, lift bookings and after-hours noise rules. We already run apartments inside Brisbane CBD towers and deal with building management the way a resident does. We read the building's rules before you commit, not after.
Your guest is a family or a group, staying longer
Coast bookings run longer than a CBD one-night business stay and the guest wants a home that works: a kitchen that is stocked, beach gear that is where it should be, parking that is explained. Minimum-night settings and the listing itself are built around that guest, not copied from a city apartment.
We are an hour down the M1, and we say so
Laurea Stays is Brisbane-based and owner-operated. You deal with the person running your property, not a call centre. Before a Gold Coast property takes its first guest we build its local cleaning and maintenance team and inspect it ourselves, the same way we set up and run a holiday house on North Stradbroke Island from Brisbane.
Who you would be dealing with
A small, licensed team that runs properties away from base already
Laurea Management Pty Ltd holds Queensland real estate agent licence 4951495, holds owner money in a trust account, and is run by its founder. Every property manager is capped at 50 properties, every team member completes a $15,000 specialist short-term rental course, and our Airbnb hosting accounts carry Superhost status at 4.8 stars across 267 reviews, which a new Gold Coast listing inherits from day one.
We manage Brisbane CBD apartments, a Bulimba townhome and a holiday house on North Stradbroke Island that we set up and run from Brisbane: local trades, ferry-timed turnovers and a calendar that swings with the seasons. That is the same job the Gold Coast asks for, an hour closer.
Why owners choose Laurea Stays
North Stradbroke Island, managed from BrisbaneWhere we take enquiries
Gold Coast suburbs we manage in
Apartments and holiday homes from Southport to Coolangatta. If your suburb is not listed, ask: the answer depends on the building and the property, not the postcode.
What is included
Everything, end to end
- Listing built for the holiday and family market
- Professional photography and styling
- Dynamic nightly pricing reset daily to the Gold Coast calendar
- Listed across Airbnb, Booking.com, Stayz and VRBO
- Guest screening and 24/7 guest communication
- Local cleaning, linen and maintenance coordination
- Monthly inspections and licensed trust accounting
- No lock-in contracts
Our performance guarantee
For our first 20 clients, on eligible properties: if your average weekly payout over your first three months with us is not at least 10% higher than what you would have netted from a long-term lease after agency fees, we refund every management fee we collected, or keep managing for free until it is.
Baseline is the assessed market long-term weekly rent for your property less standard agency management fees, a like-for-like owner-payout comparison. Remedy at Laurea Stays' election, once per property, property to remain available for booking throughout. Full terms in clause 6 of our terms and conditions.
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