Jack Power
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first heard Jun 2026
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course accommodation for your your quick city break and you know you might be faced with a kind of a steep uh a steep hotel bill.
But this is basically to kind of get back to what's going on in in Brussels.
This isn't so much Brussels telling or saying, right, this is what everyone's gotta do to tackle, you know, the over concentration of Airbnbs.
It's effectively saying to
local either cities or regional or governments, you go ahead and, you know, crack on with your own restrictions or regulations, whether that's be, you know, in Barcelona's case, a kind of a more firm ban, or whether it's, you know, restricting um Airbnbs to 180 or 90 days a year and that they can be kind of short term less
Yeah, so Belgium, you know, the I guess part of this problem is the kind of the Airbnb side of it.
But the other problem is, you know, when it comes to the housing market, is just how many properties are left sitting vacant or somebody might have bought a second property as either an investment or a bit of a a bit of a bolt hole in a in a city.
And it's it's really sitting there unused in um
In an area where housing is in high demand.
So, for example, in um in Brussels, you know, if you're buying a property, you get pretty decent tax breaks on the equivalent of the stamp duty, as long as you live in it afterwards for at least five years.
And so what that basically does is it it stops this um, you know, this practice or makes it less um attractive.
attractive this practice of of somebody buying an apartment for an investment and and leaving it sit there.
And even in some other cities in in Copenhagen, it's even it's even more strict.
It's it's against the law to have a property and basically leave it leave it vacant.
Um I think it's any more than actually six weeks.
You've got to get onto the the local authorities and kind of explain why you have the the property in it
And it's lying vacant.
I mean, you could look at kind of Dublin or other Irish cities and say, you know, God, there's a huge amount of properties lying empty, whether they've been they've been bought for speculative investments or whether they've been let kind of go to to rack and ruin.
But the the Airbnb restrictions and regulation side is probably something that catches the the headlines, but actually probably the the bigger
impact in terms of getting more housing onto the onto the actual market might be having a proper think about going after the the vacant properties and
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