Visitor Accommodation

Renting your property out for visitor accommodation can affect your rates. This page is a basic guide to accommodation rate categories.

Residential (house, unit, apartment, flat, holiday home)

This category applies if your property is your home or is rented out on a residential lease. It also applies if you rent your home out for accommodation on a short term basis for a single period of up to 28 days per year.

Check – if the property is in the country then it might be rated as a country dwelling instead of residential.

Mixed Use (house, unit, apartment, flat, holiday home, home stay, B&B)

This category applies if your property is used partly for residential purposes and partly (but not principally) for accommodation on a short term basis. This is determined by:

Physical portion used for visitor accommodation – applies for homestay’s and B&B’s.
Time used for visitor accommodation on an annual basis – applies for houses, units, apartments, flats and holiday homes.

Exemption

Residential properties used for accommodation purposed for a single period of up to 28 consecutive days per year. If you rent your property more than once a year you will fall into the mixed use category and the 28 day exemption will not apply.

Is a resource consent required?

A resource consent may be required unless it is home stay accommodation of no more than four guests.

Accommodation (house, unit, apartment, flat, holiday home, home stay, B&B, hotels, motels, time share, motor camps, backpackers)

This category applies if your property is used only for accommodation for paying guests on a short term basis (nightly, weekly or monthly.)

Check – if the property is in the Wanaka or Queenstown Central Business District then it might be rated CBD accommodation instead of accommodation.

Is a resource consent required?

Yes – a resource consent it required for this activity.

>> Register your holiday home as Visitor Accommodation (pdf 3mb)

Background information - how did we get to this point?

>> Read about plan change 22 - Definition of Visitor Accommodation
>> Read about plan change 23 - Visitor Accommodation and Residential Amenity

For further information please contact our customer services team phone 03 441 0499 Queenstown, 03 443 0024 Wanaka, or email services@qldc.govt.nz