Italian city Florence has banned new short-term residential lets on platforms such as Airbnb in the latest move by a local authority to ease housing pressure in its city centre.
Other European countries are taking measures in advance of the regulations from the European Commission due to come into effect so I think Ireland has the ability to act too. Whether we call it self-catering, Airbnb or otherwise,it cannot be isolated from the wider housing crisis. Alfonso Bonilla I think you've hit the nail in the head on a sensitive part of this conversation. Oftentimes short-term letting properties are family-sized homes. Indeed if your investment property is a family sized apartment in Dublin, we are talking about an apartment in the city, in a rent pressure zone, during a housing crisis.
Want to cycle Waterford greenway with family? There is little or no beds the whole county is designated as an RPZ - just like Dublin.