Tenants who listed rental apartment on Airbnb breached their lease, court rules
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Victorian tribunal had ruled in favour of Barbara Uecker and Michael Greaves, but supreme court overturns that decision
A Melbourne couple who listed their rented apartment on Airbnb breached their own lease agreement by doing so, a court has found.
Catherine Swan, their landlord, tried to have the pair evicted from the apartment in the bayside suburb of St Kilda after they listed it as available on the short-stay website.
The Victorian civil and administrative tribunal ruled in her tenants' favour and the fight moved to the supreme court, where Justice Clyde Croft found on Friday that the tenants had breached their lease.