Is it time up for timeshare?
Consumer advocates warn investors against the schemes, but the industry says members have realised lifestyle benefits amid the pandemic.
Aleks VickovichWealth editor
For a few hundred thousand Australian households, the tantalising prospect of turning a holiday into an investment has led them to buy into timeshare schemes.
These controversial arrangements – infamous for providing funding to high-profile Gold Coast resort developments in the 1980s – grant participants access to holiday accommodation over an agreed period of time.
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