Live Luxe

Short-stay apartment management · Melbourne

If we don't beat your long-term rate in 12 months, we make up the difference and pay you $10,000.

Your apartment, run like a five-star hotel. Live Luxe manages 90 apartments across the CBD, Docklands, Southbank and Port Melbourne. We price, host, clean and report; you collect the returns.

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Do you own an apartment in Melbourne?

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Quick estimate

Run the numbers yourself.

What the lease leaves you after agency costs, against what a short stay would leave you after the platform fee and cleaning. Change any figure and the sums update as you type.

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20 nights · 66% occupancy

The nightly rate and nights are starting figures for the area and size. Set them to what you expect; the measured report replaces them with real results from your building and street.

The lease keeps—a year, after 6% management and a 1.5-week letting fee
A short stay nets—a year, after the 17.05% platform fee and cleaning

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Estimates only, not advice. The platform fee is Airbnb Australia's 15.5% host fee plus GST on the fee; cleaning is a per-turnover cost at an average stay of three nights; the lease side assumes a Melbourne agency at 6% plus one tenant placement a year. The full report is built from measured results of comparable apartments, never from a forecast.

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62Pricing

Rates that move with the city.

Melbourne's calendar is our pricing engine. Australian Open, Grand Prix, AFL finals, conference season: every night is repriced before it is sold, and minimum-stay rules flex with demand so the calendar fills without giving the weekends away.

  • Repriced daily. Never left on a flat rate.
  • Three channels. Airbnb, Booking.com and direct.
  • Events priced early. The Open, the Grand Prix and finals, months ahead.

41Guests

Guests you'd hand your own keys to.

Every booking is identity-verified and screened against the house rules before a door code is issued. Guests message one team, day and night, and hear back in minutes. Noise and occupancy monitoring keep the building quiet and the owners corporation onside.

  • Every booking screened. ID-verified against the house rules before a door code goes out.
  • Minutes to reply. One guest team, day and night.
  • Quiet buildings. Noise and occupancy monitoring on every apartment.

18Housekeeping

Hotel-grade turnovers, every time.

Our own cleaning teams, commercially laundered linen and restocked amenities between every stay. Maintenance is spotted on turnover, logged with photos and fixed before the next guest arrives.

  • In-house teams. Our own cleaners on every turnover.
  • Hotel linen. Commercially laundered, amenities restocked between stays.
  • Photo-logged. Every clean inspected, every fault fixed before the next guest.

RReturns

Returns you can read in a minute.

One management fee, one monthly statement, and an owner portal with the live calendar, nightly rates and every expense itemised. Funds sit in a trust account and are paid on the same day each month.

  • One statement. Monthly, with every expense itemised, and an owner portal in between.
  • Trust account. Paid on the same day each month.
  • The guarantee. If we don't beat your long-term rate in twelve months, we make up the difference.

Start here

Let's talk about your apartment.

Tell us where it is and how it's set up. We'll come back within one business day with an earnings estimate for your apartment and a straight answer on whether short-stay suits it.

  • No lock-in. No obligation, and nothing to pay for the estimate or the call.
  • Real comparables. The estimate comes from apartments in your building and street, not a forecast.
  • A straight answer. If long-term is the better option, we say so.
  • 90Apartments
  • 5Precincts
  • 24/7Guest team
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Questions

What owners ask before the call.

It's tenanted right now — is that a problem?

No. Tell us when it could be available and we plan from there. Most owners come to us with a lease still running.

Does it need to be furnished?

Not to get an estimate. Tell us where it stands — furnished, partly or not at all — and we'll cover what set-up would involve on the call.

What does it cost?

One management fee, itemised on your monthly statement, and nothing to pay to get the estimate or take the call. We walk you through the fee against your own numbers before you decide anything.

What about my owners corporation?

Every building we work in has one. We keep noise and occupancy monitoring on every apartment, and we would rather turn a booking away than upset a building we work in.

Can I still use the apartment myself?

Owner stays are set out in the management agreement, and we'll go through how they work on the call.

Am I locked in?

No. No lock-in, no obligation — the estimate and the call are free, and so is walking away.

Anything else? Book a 20-minute call and ask us on it.