Should we ban Airbnb in Ireland to alleviate renting crisis? Did a quick search and found over 1000 “stays” for September alone!
Should we ban Airbnb in Ireland to alleviate renting crisis? Did a quick search and found over 1000 “stays” for September alone!
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Government have already put licencing requirements in place that will see all air b+b banned for 6 months across the country.
They are failing misrabelly to meet the housing targets that they set, so they are getting desperate.
To get a better picture, only search for ‘entire places’, as plenty here will be just a room in a gaff to rent
1,000 over the entire country doesn’t sound like it would make much of a dent on housing.
Especially given that a fair percentage of those are probably in places where people don’t want to live, but do want to visit.
We should definitely do more to actually enforce the regulation around them, though.
In Catalonia you can’t just let your flat on Airbnb, you need to register and only a set number of flats are allowed to be on the register at any time. If you aren’t on the list, you can’t do short term let’s.
Something like that would improve things massively.
You can search for properties without inputting a date to get a clearer result of how many properties are actually on Airbnb. Also the site will say over 1000 regardless of how many over 1000 that number is. When searching in the US it also says over 1000 when the number is likely many many times this. A better way to check this, in my opinion, is to check by county and filtering for entire place.
Under this search I found 994 in Dublin, 322 in Cork, 717 in Galway, 134 in Limerick. Clare and Kerry have over 1000 each.
There are tens of thousands of vacant properties.
By all means ban Air BnB, but it’s not material by comparison.
I believe the answer overall is yes , airbnb type lets should be banned or taxed to the eyeballs.
Ban it for places that don’t have planning permission to be a short term rental accomodation.
Airbnb shouldn’t be banned but all holiday accommodation should require planning permission.
Well, when we get those 1000 places back we’ll all be housed and our rents will go down! Hooray!
I doubt they’ll be banned seeing as their European headquarters are in Dublin.
We don’t need to ban them, just enforce the current rules. They are as follows: https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/housing/owning_a_home/home_owners/renting_your_property_for_shortterm_lets.html
From 3 November 2022, online platforms, such as Airbnb, will no longer be able to advertise properties for short-term let if the properties do not have the correct planning permission.
The revenue already clamping down on these, I know a lad who I worked with got fines €10k of undeclared tax owed he was renting a room though Airb&b in his Dublin apartment for a year.
Lovely 5 bedroom house beside my mam, she says it’s rented to Americans 2 or 3 weekends a month.
Not ban but restrict control and limit the amount of them
Not until supply outpaces demand
AirbNb have their EU office in Dublin…. so yeah… ain’t gonna happen.
I don’t think an outright ban is ok like ppl should still be allowed use it buuuut also there needs to be sme kind of checks and balances as it’s just getting out of hand now am not sure has any other major city effectively done something with Airbnb? My latest experience was trying to get a house in Kinsale for 3nights last October and it was still tough half that town is Airbnb it seems and no wonder then it’s the most expensive town in the county I believe for house prices