Jack Power
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
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Yeah, I think they were kind of coming around to and the government is coming around to the the idea of uh of course at least regulating um the Airbnb sector and there's gonna be more and stricter restrictions, like you're gonna have to get planning permission if you're letting out your
a house or second property on Airbnb for for any more than a a short period.
But when it comes to vacancy, like I think, you know, anyone walking through Dublin City Centre or, you know, Cork, Cork City will just be struck by the amount of properties that that either look derelict or or are derelict on and vacant.
Um and then you have to question whether the approach of the the vacant uh property taxes
Is is working.
And you know, that that's actually something that I think was quite um in inventive at the time, but it it doesn't seem to have solved the the problem of the amount of homes being left vacant, probably to do with the the lack of enforcement and the fact that our are local authorities really properly going after going after people for for letting property sit vacant in a
capital city or a a big city where everyone else around them is is facing, you know, real pressure to to get their their hands on a an apartment to rent or a house to buy.
That's it, yeah.
And you know, if you're from as I if you're from Westport or or Dingle or one of these other kind of tourist um you know, kind of heavy footfall towns, you what you're seeing is when you talk to actual people, local people there, like they're having real trouble getting either a pr uh a house to to buy or a house to rent and and live in, because so many of them are are sitting as these Airbnb short term
Property.
So while it's stretched across the entire country, you know, only might account for a small percentage of the housing stock, it's really concentrated in certain places.
And that's where and why, you know, I think there has been a greater push to try and say, okay, well, we do need to kind of regulate this system a bit because it is having a detrimental impact on the wider housing.
But then, you know, as you were as you were saying earlier.
You know, and this is the this is the problem with trying to fix the intractable housing crisis in Ireland or in Spain, Barcelona or wherever that you take and governments or local councils take one decision and you know try and pad down one of the the lumps on the carpet and then it ends up, you know, shifting it elsewhere.
So you go after, you know, Airbnbs and short term lets.
And then it w when it comes to
you know, people heading off for a weekend away, they find that because there isn't the the supply of short term lets, the the cost of uh the cost of a a staycation or a weekend trip to Barcelona or Paris is uh is even more expensive than it is already.
Yeah, to be honest, and I think that's something that everyone and every listener will kind of had an experience with.
They've they've gone away somewhere, they've they've booked on Airbnb.
And then you're you're left with the the rigmarole sometimes of you know, either getting the the key from the lockbox and the code doesn't work, and then you call the number and you can't get through to somebody, or you've got to meet somebody to pick up the key somewhere else.
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