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Dublin City Council to ban short-term rental lockboxes
Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: Dublin City Council has voted to ban lockboxes used for short-term rentals on public structures, with enforcement set to begin on 14 April 2025.
Airbnb’s Irish unit allocates €950m to settling tax investigations
Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: Airbnb’s Irish unit has allocated €950 million [$1.002 billion / £794 million] to complying with tax investigations in the countries in which the company and its subsidiaries operate.
Definitely Maybe an Oasis hospitality boom in 2025
Reading Time: 5 minutesUK: English rock band Oasis has announced that it is reuniting for its first UK shows in 16 years in the summer of 2025.
Ireland mulls further restrictions on short-term rentals
Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: The Irish government is considering whether to further restrict the short-term letting of houses and apartments.
Sonder planning for further expansion in Irish market
Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: San Francisco-based short-term rental operator Sonder is planning further expansion in Dublin city centre, after committing to growing its presence in Ireland to back up a better-than-anticipated summer period. Sonder recorded an average occupancy rate of over 90 per cent from August to October in its two Dublin properties, 12 months on from its […]
Airbnb plans to cut 35 per cent of Dublin workforce
Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: Airbnb may be planning to shed around 25 per cent of its workforce in the Irish capital of Dublin. According to TheJournal.ie, employees have been told that Airbnb is targeting 190 redundancies at its European headquarters due to the global pandemic. The company announced a wide series of layoffs at the beginning of May, […]
Dublin denies planning permission for short-term lets
Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: Dublin City council has set significant precedent, by denying a series of short-term lets planning permission for continued operation. Out of 16 properties that applied, the council denied eight applications. The city council says this is leading to a shift in city policy, which would outright prevent operators from running Airbnb units full time […]
Dublin City Council to set up €400,000 Airbnb taskforce
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIreland: A dedicated team to police potentially illegal Airbnb-style rentals in Dublin is to be formed by Dublin City Council in response to imminent regulation of the short-term rental market. The council is seeking €400,000 from the Department of Housing and Planning to set up a new enforcement regime to deal with what it says […]
Airbnb-tracking app launched to alleviate housing crisis in Dublin
Reading Time: 2 minutesDublin: A web app, Wherebnb.io, has been produced by four Irish software developers as it aims to maximise short-term letting opportunities for Airbnb users in Dublin. The app’s developers have said that it could help to partially alleviate the shortage of available rental properties in the Irish capital, with the housing crisis in the city […]
Take Back the City housing activists call for ‘total ban’ on Airbnb in Ireland
Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: Protesters from housing activist group, Take Back the City, occupied Airbnb’s Dublin offices on Saturday in protest over the platform’s ‘impact on the housing crisis’. The Airbnb head office was open as part of an Open House Dublin architecture event which allowed public access to buildings. However, access to other offices as part of […]