Thinking of buying?Buying an accommodation business is buying a livelihood, not just real estate. Start with the right questions — we'll help you answer every one, then connect you with the specialist for your class and region.
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What buying looks like.A representative listing from each major asset class — the structure, the region and the price band. Open a class to browse everything currently for sale in it.
Motels
$3.15mBrowse motels →Tamworth, New England HighwayFreehold going concern · NSW
Management Rights
$3.15mBrowse motels →Tamworth, New England HighwayFreehold going concern · NSW
Caravan Parks
$3.15mBrowse motels →Tamworth, New England HighwayFreehold going concern · NSW
Hotels & Resorts
$3.15mBrowse motels →Tamworth, New England HighwayFreehold going concern · NSW
Success StoriesReal buyers, by asset class. Every story names the deal, the numbers and what they'd do differently.All success stories →
Motels→
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Caravan / Cabin Park→
Hotels→
Backpackers→
Apartment Hotels→
Special Projects→
“We bought at 41% occupancy. Eighteen months of hard graft later it runs at 74%.”
9 Min Read
Dean & Sarah Whitfield · Palms Oasis Motel, CoopernookRead More→
People who did it.If you'd know how to weigh up a McDonald's or a Jim's Mowing territory, you already know how to weigh up an accommodation business: it's a system that produces income, and the structure decides the risk. Here's the analogy for each class.
Motels
The Freehold Franchise.→
Management Rights
The Territory Model.→
Hotels & Resorts
The Operating Company.→
Buying a McDonald's means buying a proven system that produces income. A freehold motel is that — except you own the land too, nobody charges you a franchise fee, and the brand you build is yours to sell.
The Motels guide→
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Start with the deposit.An accommodation business doesn't fund like a house — the bank lends against the income as much as the bricks, so your equity stretches further in some classes than others. Set your usable equity and pick a class to see an indicative purchase budget.
Usable equity / deposit
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Asset class · sets the typical LVRManagement Rights
Motel · freehold
Motel · leasehold
Caravan park
Hotel / resort
Apartment hotel
Backpackers
Indicative purchase budget · Management Rights$2,000,000
Indicative only — real borrowing power depends on the verified net, security and your position.How the borrowing works · bank appetite by classYour equity$700,000
Indicative loan$1,300,000
Typical LVR65%
Preferred finance partnersLenders and brokers who already understand letting pools, FF&E and leasehold security — our vetted panel.Meet the panel→
How the finance worksLVR bands by class, what lenders ask for, and how to be finance-ready before you offer.Financing your purchase→
Run your own numbersThe yield calculator gives you an indicative multiplier in 30 seconds. A full mortgage & LVR calculator is on its way.Open the calculator→
You already have
most of it.
most of it.
Very few of our buyers came from accommodation. They came from trades, corporate, retail, farming, defence. What separates the ones who thrive isn't industry experience — it's the willingness to learn the handful of things that are genuinely specific. Every class leans on these differently — a broker can read your background against the right fit.
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What Comes With You
01
Customer service & hospitality instinctGuests, complaints, the front desk — if you've run a venue or a team, you've done this.
02
Managing people & rostersHousekeeping, casuals, a relief manager. Ordinary people-management, applied to a small operation.
03
Basic bookkeeping & cashflowReading a P&L, watching the bank balance, chasing an invoice. The fundamentals carry straight over.
04
Sales, negotiation & problem-solvingGuests, complaiWhether it's corporate, trades or retail — the muscle for a deal and a fix transfers directly.nts, the front desk — if you've run a venue or a team, you've done this.
What You'll Learn
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Trust accounting & the auditHolding other people's money to a statutory standard. Class-dependent and learnable in weeks.
02
The agreement that governs the assetCaretaking & letting (MR), the lease (motels), tenure (parks). The single most important document.
03
Yield, multiplier & RevPARHow the business is valued and how performance is measured. The Made Easy guides cover each class.
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Compliance by state & classLicensing, the body-corporate relationship, insurance. Different in every class — we map it for you.
Talk with your local expert
A specialist broker — by class and by region, the person who'd run your purchase. Browse the bench, or use the form and we'll match you.
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The right advisors.An accommodation deal runs on a bench who've done it before — specialist accountants, finance brokers and lawyers who know letting pools, FF&E and leasehold security. Hover a discipline to see what they cover.
Accountants
Verify the net, not the story.→
Finance Brokers
Structure the lend.→
Legal Specialists
Contracts & modules.→
A specialist accountant rebuilds the P&L from source documents — occupancy, ADR, wages, body-corporate salary — so the net you pay a multiple on is the net that's actually there.
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Made EasyOne dedicated guide per asset class — the structure, the income, the diligence and the jargon, written for someone buying their first one.
Management Rights
Motel
Caravan / Cabin Park
Hotels & Resorts
Backpackers
Apartment Hotels
Special Projects
管理权 · 中文
A letting pool is contracted, recurring income — plus a body-corporate salary underwritten in the agreements. The guide walks the module, the multiplier and the diligence that protects both.
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What's realistic
where you're looking.
Supply, pricing and competition shift hard by state. Pick where you're looking for an orientation — then jump into live listings, recent sale prices and the regional research.
QLD
NSW
VIC
WA
SA
TAS & NT
96Active listings
5.2×Median multiplier
+4% YoYNet change
The deepest market in the country — management rights, coastal motels and parks. The most stock, and the most competition for it.Don't understand the terminology?
FHGC, multipliers, letting pools — all in plain English. Or click any underlined term on the page and the definition appears inline.
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Anti-money-laundering
checks, without the mystery.
Buying an accommodation business involves obligations under Australia's Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) laws. ResortBrokers is required to verify the identity of buyers and the source of funds before contracts proceed. Your broker walks you through exactly what's needed early — so verification never holds up your purchase.
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IdentityPhoto ID for every purchasing party — individuals, company directors, or trustees.
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EntityCompany extracts, trust deeds or partnership agreements where the buyer is a structure, not a person.
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FundsEvidence of the source of funds — finance approval, bank statements, or sale proceeds.
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