The sad thing is they’re never available at a decent price when you need them either.
There’s a massive shortage of temporary accomodation as well.
While it would be preferable for most of these in feasible locations to become long term accomodation, we do need to serve the temporary accomodation market as well so measures against them need to be mindful that we don’t disincentivise them but incentivise the building of long term accomodation.
Where did people stay before Airbnbs?
Looked into booking an Airbnb for a 6 person weekend break the other day – the amount of properties that are booked up is mad, all that was left was a few hilariously overpriced mcmansions (>€1,000 per day) or dingy looking hovels that are about 45 mins from the town we were looking at.
It’s harder for me to begrudge this activity though, I’d do the same when there was profits like this to be made
2704 Airbnb in a housing stock that’s well over 500k units (Dublin).
Someone wants you to hate Airbnb but the less than 0.5% of housing stock they represent, they aren’t the problem.
As for the daft rental numbers flag waving.
The REITs advertise on Daft. Each add represents multiple apartments. Beyond that most lettings seem to either be upon Daft for 3 hours or go via friends/Facebook groups.
Not denying there’s a rental crisis but the Daft figure at a single point in time is meaningless.
The whole article is lazy lazy journalism.
If I’d a property free to rent I’d definitely be using short term rentals over long term. My brother has just managed to evict a tenants who simply stopped paying rent. She owes him 13k which he knows he’ll never get back. Took the bones of 2 years to get her out through the legal channels. Fuck that shit.
Just boycott airbnb
There clearly isn’t enough rental accommodation and I’m all for regulating the shit out of Airbnb but this is another misleading study because every Airbnb is up for rental on their site at all times whereas already rented properties obviously aren’t up on Daft. It’s under 3k Airbnbs in all of Dublin. There are hundreds of thousands of dwellings in Dublin, the Airbnbs are a rounding error.
Everyone keeps repeating the same lie until it is accepted as truth.
These aren’t comparable. Nearly all Airbnb homes are on Airbnb 365 days of the year.
A rental home is only on daft for the few weeks it takes to rent.
You’d have to compare the number of Airbnb with the number of homes for rent over the entire year for it to be a fair comparison.
Everyone knows this, but lazy journalists and politicians that think we are all stupid just keep repeating it in the hope we are both lazy and stupid enough to accept it.
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The sad thing is they’re never available at a decent price when you need them either.
There’s a massive shortage of temporary accomodation as well.
While it would be preferable for most of these in feasible locations to become long term accomodation, we do need to serve the temporary accomodation market as well so measures against them need to be mindful that we don’t disincentivise them but incentivise the building of long term accomodation.
Where did people stay before Airbnbs?
Looked into booking an Airbnb for a 6 person weekend break the other day – the amount of properties that are booked up is mad, all that was left was a few hilariously overpriced mcmansions (>€1,000 per day) or dingy looking hovels that are about 45 mins from the town we were looking at.
It’s harder for me to begrudge this activity though, I’d do the same when there was profits like this to be made
2704 Airbnb in a housing stock that’s well over 500k units (Dublin).
Someone wants you to hate Airbnb but the less than 0.5% of housing stock they represent, they aren’t the problem.
As for the daft rental numbers flag waving.
The REITs advertise on Daft. Each add represents multiple apartments. Beyond that most lettings seem to either be upon Daft for 3 hours or go via friends/Facebook groups.
Not denying there’s a rental crisis but the Daft figure at a single point in time is meaningless.
The whole article is lazy lazy journalism.
If I’d a property free to rent I’d definitely be using short term rentals over long term. My brother has just managed to evict a tenants who simply stopped paying rent. She owes him 13k which he knows he’ll never get back. Took the bones of 2 years to get her out through the legal channels. Fuck that shit.
Just boycott airbnb
There clearly isn’t enough rental accommodation and I’m all for regulating the shit out of Airbnb but this is another misleading study because every Airbnb is up for rental on their site at all times whereas already rented properties obviously aren’t up on Daft. It’s under 3k Airbnbs in all of Dublin. There are hundreds of thousands of dwellings in Dublin, the Airbnbs are a rounding error.
Everyone keeps repeating the same lie until it is accepted as truth.
These aren’t comparable. Nearly all Airbnb homes are on Airbnb 365 days of the year.
A rental home is only on daft for the few weeks it takes to rent.
You’d have to compare the number of Airbnb with the number of homes for rent over the entire year for it to be a fair comparison.
Everyone knows this, but lazy journalists and politicians that think we are all stupid just keep repeating it in the hope we are both lazy and stupid enough to accept it.
Time to regulate this