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Ballyglunin Park completes three-year restoration
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIreland: Historical Irish manor house Ballyglunin Park has announced the completion of its three-year restoration project. The owners are now placing the property on the market as a luxury, self-catering vacation rental. The manor dates back to the 1640s when its lands were granted to Martin Blake, Galway high sheriff, by Charles II. The original […]
Dublin City Council rejects rental planning permission
Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: Dublin City Council has rejected a planning permission proposal by property owners to change the use of their properties to Airbnb-style lettings in the city centre. It followed the news that the council had refused planning permission to Friends First Life Assurance DAC for the temporary use of six apartments at 43-44 Clarendon Street […]
Airbnbs in Ireland up by 20 per cent ahead of June rental crackdown
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIreland: The number of homes in the Republic of Ireland being advertised as short-term rentals on Airbnb has risen by more than 1,000 in the last year. Homeowners in the Republic appear to be trying to cash in before a summer crackdown on short-term lettings is implemented in the country. Latest figures show that 5,855 […]
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 criticises apparent ‘cut and paste job’ short-term letting regulations
Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: Airbnb has claimed measures to regulate short-term lettings and home-sharing sites appear to be ‘a cut and paste job’ from regulations in other cities. Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy announced regulations for short-term lettings on Thursday that are due to come into force in June 2019. Under the new restrictions, owners of buy-to-let properties […]
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 […]
Older Airbnb hosts or ’empty nesters’ on the rise in Ireland
Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: The number of older Airbnb hosts – also known as ’empty nesters’ – is rising at a rapid rate in Ireland. Airbnb say people over the age of 60 are the fastest-growing host demographic, with the numbers increasing 34 per cent since last year. There are now more than 3,300 hosts in this age […]
Tax authorities to crack down on Irish Airbnb hosts
Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: The Revenue Commissioners is set to crack down on homeowners listing their properties on Airbnb after Airbnb revealed details of tax payments made to its customers from 2014 to 2016. Tax authorities are writing to 12,000 homeowners as a reminder to ensure they include their rental income on their tax returns and will follow-up […]
Dublin Airbnb hosts face proposed regulations to cut down on short-term lets
Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: Property management companies are listing short-term rental properties based in Dublin on leasing websites before regulations targeting Airbnb come into effect. The move to list properties on sites such as Booking.com and Expedia follows on from a similar effort by property owners in other cities, including London and Toronto. The planned regulation of Dublin’s […]