Jack Power
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first heard Jun 2026
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And I I think the you know, there has been a change.
From the the early days of Airbnb, where you say it was cheap, and you were kind of probably more likely to be dealing with a person who was letting out either their home for the the weekend or small spare apartment they might have.
And it it has become more and more of a kind of commercial beast.
And a lot of the hosts, you know, Airbnb.
it should be noted, are and are waging a, you know, significant lobbying effort in Brussels to try and push back on this kind of regulatory um drive from Europe and other and other cities and the stories that Airbnb and and it's not just Airbn Airbnb, you know, it it's also Booking dot com and other um short term Letting sites, but the stories they'll tell or Airbnb anyway.
is of the you know the mom and pop uh post who's just earning, as you said, the the spare hundred quid.
But I think most people's experience with the the platforms it kind of says you're much less likely to to uh to be letting off someone like that.
And it's it's getting more and more common that you're you're dealing with kind of more of a a business um who's running several several host properties rather than rather than an individual.
And I think that's that's one of the reasons why, you know, as I as I was writing in the Irish Times, the
The kind of Airbnb equation, um, it kind of really stopped adding up in the way that it was, given the detrimental impact it's having on the the housing side of things.
Yeah, so basically Greenland, for example, is still considered a territory of Denmark.
So that kind of governs most of its relations.
But when it comes to Norway and Iceland, they're part of what's known as the European Economic Area.
So it's something that, you know, we probably don't hear too much about, but it means that effectively they're part of the EU's single market and common economic area.
As a result, they're very kind of enmeshed in the EU system.
They follow the vast heap of the EU rules and regulations that basically allows it to be part, allows both of them to be part of the single market.
And so what's interesting now is there's a bit of a debate in Iceland about maybe going a step further and saying, well, will we have a conversation about joining the EU full in?
No, no, absolutely.
And I think it's worth remembering that for Iceland, and it's actually something that people mightn't know, but they were well on the way to joining the EU a good few many years ago.
They first applied for EU membership back in 2009.
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