Jack Power
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Yeah, thanks.
So the EU's new piece of legislation here mightn't um
result in many affordable homes being built.
The intention is basically to have a look at Airbnb and other short term rentals and and the the question that you know has probably increasingly been posed, particularly in areas like cities or or tourist hotspots.
You know, you're thinking of your Barcelona or your your Dingle is the ones that kind of come to mind in the Irish continent.
context where you know you're seeing Airbnb or or Booking.com or wherever else it is and a real proliferation of the short term lets and not even in a way that you know somebody might be Airbnb and out their their house for the odd few weeks or weekends a year, more the kind of the commercial side of it, you know, where businesses might have, you know, five or ten properties
That are then solely put up on these short-term letting sites.
And basically they're taking those properties, you know, permanently out of what we consider probably the normal housing market, you know, for rent or for people to buy.
And so what the EU's proposing to do is effectively kind of close off a bit of a bit of legal uncertainty over, you know.
How far can local authorities or national governments go to really regulate um Airbnb?
And so that's what's that's what's kind of winding its way through the the system in Brussels at the moment.
Yeah, so what we've what we've kind of seen to date has been a bit of a piecemeal approach, you know, where for example, um, Barcelona is probably one of the the best examples because it's quite it's gone quite far.
And what it's basically decided to do for the authorities in Barcelona, they have about um ten thousand properties that they have given licenses to to rent to to tourists.
And they're basically saying that from 2028, they're not going to renew any of those licenses.
They haven't issued a new one since 2015.
And that's effectively, they hope, going to bring those 10,000 apartments out of the kind of Airbnb system and world and into the the housing market.
been described as an Airbnb ban in Barcelona.
So it it it seems like that's going to be fairly wide reaching.
Now the the Airbnb and the letting platforms are have tried their best to legally challenge that.
But I think you will definitely see a situation where past twenty twenty eight in Barcelona, you know, there's going to be uh it's going to be a lot trickier to find um
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