PHOTO: GOOGLE STREETVIEW – The weekly rent for the Wellington apartment was $650.

The landlord of a Wellington property has been handed the tenants’ Airbnb profits, by the Tenancy Tribunal.

The tenant had illegally sublet the Bellagio apartment, in central Wellington, on at least 54 occasions over six months. He made more than $12,450.

The rent for the apartment was $650 a week.

The owners, based in the United States, asked a property manager, Keith Powell, of Nice Place Property Management, to investigate.

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