This should be illegal and I honestly cannot understand anyone who would argue differently here.
Planning permission for air bnb’s/ all holiday lets would be such an easy thing to implement. Set a maximum cap on numbers in an area, have a noise complaints register and you’re away.
I’d urge everyone to write to their mp about this.
Hasn’t Cornwall set a precedent by putting a bylaw in place to say no more 2nd homes? The lakes needs to do similar saying no more rentals.
This is common across many parts of the UK, especially Edinburgh and York
The flat when I last lived at in York 5 years ago was £750/month. It was the only rented flat in the block, all others were AirBnBs at £120/night. Woken up constantly by lost tourists, suitcases, hen parties etc. I’m pretty sure last time I saw it for rent it was a grand. York doesn’t have that many well paying jobs
AirBNB is great in principle. Last time I went on holiday I rented someone’s house whilst he was away for work. I got to stay in a house with decent cooking facilities instead of in a crappy hotel. My host got to make some cash from his property whilst it was vacant.
What AirBNB has turned into in a lot of cases is horrible and is completely screwing up the housing market for many people.
Change the law so AirBnB’s have to do the same hotels have to:
-Food standards
-Hygiene Ratings
-Tax like the do in America with Hotel Tax and Occupancy Tax
And lastly, bring in regulations so they have to be regulated same way as hotels.
In Exeter rent has visibly gone up about 40% in the town and surrounding villages. Seeing literally the same studios that were gone for 450 now going for 675 etc. The reason for this is quite clear, every other bloody house is a staycation holiday home / Airbnb. A room in someone’s house used to be £25 a night in 2019 but now it’s £100+. Its blind profiteering.
AirBnB is one of those things that sound great until you remember that greedy people exist and will happily exploit it to make money. It is starting to damage the property market in many areas, including Bath and Edinburgh, pricing people out of the market and reducing the stock of actual homes available for rent. It is also a real cause of antisocial behaviour that drives neighbours insane.
The problem with any curbs on the number of properties one person can own is that they will be easily exploited through shell companies and LLPs that will claim to own the house, rather than a registered person that can be easily contacted. There needs to be a limit on the number of AirBnBs in a given town/city, with a hefty accumulative tax on people who own multiple lets.
Ban buy to let mortgages, reduce stamp duty on primary homes and heavily increase on second homes, heavily increase even further on second homes intended to be let out. Ensure all let properties are registered, taxed and regulated, heavy fines and property forfeiture for people breaching the regulations including landlords who do not follow existing legislation.
Housing is a basic need and right, property speculation and investment should be heavily regulated and action taken when it leads to artificial shortages much like with something like grain speculation. Of course half the commons is invested in property so they won’t touch it despite this being one of the easiest areas to vastly improve the lives of most of the population.
We rented a house in Cornwall last summer via Air B&B. The owners lived there and just moved into a tent for a summer holiday with their kids. They were trying to make enough in 3 months to pay their mortgage for the year.
AirBnB made the world worse. The same is true for Amazon, Delivery Hero, Uber and basically the sharing economy as a whole, that accelerated the number of working poors.
Hmm, bloke who owns a flat realises he can make £4000 per month more by making it a holiday let and you lot think he should be forced to keep renting it for 800 a month.
This can easily be solved if councils were able to or made to build council houses.
My brother in law did not have their tenancy renewed in Bournemouth. What was the landlady going to do? Air BnB. More money in 12 weeks of bookings than 12 months of rent.
Absolutely mental that you need a background check to be a taxi driver dropping off potentially vulnerable people, but you can have the keys to where they sleep without any regulation whatsoever.
This is the problem with landlords in the current day and age there needs to be a limit on housing as people see housing more as an financial asset than a home these days. Most new developments are for investors which is sad
We should be taxing the shit out of these people.
They’re creating an unfair market and folks born later to poorer families (such as myself) have a hard time getting on the ladder as all the properties are bought up and inflated. There’s no way to compete. I just want to stop putting 1/3 of my pay into someone else’s retirement pocket. Pls thx
Technically speaking if it was being rented out for more than 90 days a year and isn’t the primary residence then they’d need planning permission for a change of use
Rent is just a tax poorer people pay to richer people in order to live.
I live in the Lake District and I know of loads of people in that situation. Over 50% of houses in Keswick were holiday lets years ago, I dread to think what percentage it is now.
I doubt I’ll ever be able to afford a house in my home town. I live in a long term let and the land agent is coming around tomorrow to look at renewing the lease. Fortunately I don’t think this place will go the same way.
Yet.
Land Lord is a cunt then, where are the people who work around there supposed to live, these property owner types will be moaning that there’s no community left soon, as all the quaint little villages will be empty apart from one rich over priced builder going round ripping all the landlords off for doing up their air bnb s!
Build New Housing… You have no rights from a landlord.
Modern countries have laws specifically preventing this. There, it is even not possible to to an exemption from that law through contract.
Why is this news? They own the property, they can do whatever they want
It is just pure greed and sucks the life and soul out of beautiful spots like the Lakes.
The Tories will not do anything though because many of them are landlords themselves! Born into wealth and feel they are born to rule!
We need to kick them out and get Labour in to push for Air B and B planning permissions, a ban on Buy to Lets and a proper renting regulation system.
There are intense regulations on driving. You can’t do 60mph in a built up area.
Why do we allow renters to just evict people on short notice then! They have too much power!
I don’t know the laws in the UK – but, in general, someone who owns a property is not entitled to use it for the common good. Private property rights are human rights, too.
I agree with raising council tax on air-bnbs but planning will only entrench existing letters and crowd out new competition. The whole country needs a shit load of new builds to solve the housing crisis, which is the fault of councils it shouldn’t take years to rezone commercial land to residential or take the same time to plan a new build.
Just blocking AirBNB and all the other STL companies from operating in the UK would go a long way toward solving the availability of affordable housing, but it would also cause a crash as everyone tries to unload their BtL properties.
Also, BtL mortgages should be phased out over a period of time and no new ones issued.
Neither of these things will happen because the government is run by landlords.
You landlords on here can go stomp your feet somewhere else. I worked in housing for a Council and shit’s a right mess. If you want to make easy money, go invest in a company you like. Don’t be in the business of housing people. Landlords should have to jump through every single fucking flaming hoop there is and the profit margin should be extremely low so as to discourage anyone from doing it. Housing is a right. Being a landlord is a privilege.
And this is why AirBnB needs to be treated as what it is – holiday accommodation – by planning regulations. Real B+Bs are.
I can’t even blame the landlord for this, who would turn down £50k/yr for minimal effort over a long term rent.
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This should be illegal and I honestly cannot understand anyone who would argue differently here.
Planning permission for air bnb’s/ all holiday lets would be such an easy thing to implement. Set a maximum cap on numbers in an area, have a noise complaints register and you’re away.
I’d urge everyone to write to their mp about this.
Hasn’t Cornwall set a precedent by putting a bylaw in place to say no more 2nd homes? The lakes needs to do similar saying no more rentals.
This is common across many parts of the UK, especially Edinburgh and York
The flat when I last lived at in York 5 years ago was £750/month. It was the only rented flat in the block, all others were AirBnBs at £120/night. Woken up constantly by lost tourists, suitcases, hen parties etc. I’m pretty sure last time I saw it for rent it was a grand. York doesn’t have that many well paying jobs
AirBNB is great in principle. Last time I went on holiday I rented someone’s house whilst he was away for work. I got to stay in a house with decent cooking facilities instead of in a crappy hotel. My host got to make some cash from his property whilst it was vacant.
What AirBNB has turned into in a lot of cases is horrible and is completely screwing up the housing market for many people.
Change the law so AirBnB’s have to do the same hotels have to:
-Food standards
-Hygiene Ratings
-Tax like the do in America with Hotel Tax and Occupancy Tax
And lastly, bring in regulations so they have to be regulated same way as hotels.
In Exeter rent has visibly gone up about 40% in the town and surrounding villages. Seeing literally the same studios that were gone for 450 now going for 675 etc. The reason for this is quite clear, every other bloody house is a staycation holiday home / Airbnb. A room in someone’s house used to be £25 a night in 2019 but now it’s £100+. Its blind profiteering.
AirBnB is one of those things that sound great until you remember that greedy people exist and will happily exploit it to make money. It is starting to damage the property market in many areas, including Bath and Edinburgh, pricing people out of the market and reducing the stock of actual homes available for rent. It is also a real cause of antisocial behaviour that drives neighbours insane.
The problem with any curbs on the number of properties one person can own is that they will be easily exploited through shell companies and LLPs that will claim to own the house, rather than a registered person that can be easily contacted. There needs to be a limit on the number of AirBnBs in a given town/city, with a hefty accumulative tax on people who own multiple lets.
Ban buy to let mortgages, reduce stamp duty on primary homes and heavily increase on second homes, heavily increase even further on second homes intended to be let out. Ensure all let properties are registered, taxed and regulated, heavy fines and property forfeiture for people breaching the regulations including landlords who do not follow existing legislation.
Housing is a basic need and right, property speculation and investment should be heavily regulated and action taken when it leads to artificial shortages much like with something like grain speculation. Of course half the commons is invested in property so they won’t touch it despite this being one of the easiest areas to vastly improve the lives of most of the population.
We rented a house in Cornwall last summer via Air B&B. The owners lived there and just moved into a tent for a summer holiday with their kids. They were trying to make enough in 3 months to pay their mortgage for the year.
AirBnB made the world worse. The same is true for Amazon, Delivery Hero, Uber and basically the sharing economy as a whole, that accelerated the number of working poors.
Hmm, bloke who owns a flat realises he can make £4000 per month more by making it a holiday let and you lot think he should be forced to keep renting it for 800 a month.
This can easily be solved if councils were able to or made to build council houses.
My brother in law did not have their tenancy renewed in Bournemouth. What was the landlady going to do? Air BnB. More money in 12 weeks of bookings than 12 months of rent.
Absolutely mental that you need a background check to be a taxi driver dropping off potentially vulnerable people, but you can have the keys to where they sleep without any regulation whatsoever.
This is the problem with landlords in the current day and age there needs to be a limit on housing as people see housing more as an financial asset than a home these days. Most new developments are for investors which is sad
We should be taxing the shit out of these people.
They’re creating an unfair market and folks born later to poorer families (such as myself) have a hard time getting on the ladder as all the properties are bought up and inflated. There’s no way to compete. I just want to stop putting 1/3 of my pay into someone else’s retirement pocket. Pls thx
Technically speaking if it was being rented out for more than 90 days a year and isn’t the primary residence then they’d need planning permission for a change of use
Rent is just a tax poorer people pay to richer people in order to live.
I live in the Lake District and I know of loads of people in that situation. Over 50% of houses in Keswick were holiday lets years ago, I dread to think what percentage it is now.
I doubt I’ll ever be able to afford a house in my home town. I live in a long term let and the land agent is coming around tomorrow to look at renewing the lease. Fortunately I don’t think this place will go the same way.
Yet.
Land Lord is a cunt then, where are the people who work around there supposed to live, these property owner types will be moaning that there’s no community left soon, as all the quaint little villages will be empty apart from one rich over priced builder going round ripping all the landlords off for doing up their air bnb s!
Build New Housing… You have no rights from a landlord.
Modern countries have laws specifically preventing this. There, it is even not possible to to an exemption from that law through contract.
Why is this news? They own the property, they can do whatever they want
It is just pure greed and sucks the life and soul out of beautiful spots like the Lakes.
The Tories will not do anything though because many of them are landlords themselves! Born into wealth and feel they are born to rule!
We need to kick them out and get Labour in to push for Air B and B planning permissions, a ban on Buy to Lets and a proper renting regulation system.
There are intense regulations on driving. You can’t do 60mph in a built up area.
Why do we allow renters to just evict people on short notice then! They have too much power!
I don’t know the laws in the UK – but, in general, someone who owns a property is not entitled to use it for the common good. Private property rights are human rights, too.
I agree with raising council tax on air-bnbs but planning will only entrench existing letters and crowd out new competition. The whole country needs a shit load of new builds to solve the housing crisis, which is the fault of councils it shouldn’t take years to rezone commercial land to residential or take the same time to plan a new build.
Just blocking AirBNB and all the other STL companies from operating in the UK would go a long way toward solving the availability of affordable housing, but it would also cause a crash as everyone tries to unload their BtL properties.
Also, BtL mortgages should be phased out over a period of time and no new ones issued.
Neither of these things will happen because the government is run by landlords.
You landlords on here can go stomp your feet somewhere else. I worked in housing for a Council and shit’s a right mess. If you want to make easy money, go invest in a company you like. Don’t be in the business of housing people. Landlords should have to jump through every single fucking flaming hoop there is and the profit margin should be extremely low so as to discourage anyone from doing it. Housing is a right. Being a landlord is a privilege.
And this is why AirBnB needs to be treated as what it is – holiday accommodation – by planning regulations. Real B+Bs are.
I can’t even blame the landlord for this, who would turn down £50k/yr for minimal effort over a long term rent.