Dublin City Council says fulltime Airbnb rentals need planning permission
The council recently ruled an apartment in Temple Bar was not exempt from the requirement to get planning permission because of the change of use.
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The council recently ruled an apartment in Temple Bar was not exempt from the requirement to get planning permission because of the change of use.
Rents rose by 16% in Cork since last year.
We need to make it easier for developers to make a fair margin on affordable homes, writes Aaron McKenna.
I’ve queued up with over 30 people to get into view a house. Then you have to pitch yourself, X-Factor style, as to why they should pick you.
“Landlords answer to banks. We’re still paying the price for austerity.”
The letters were delivered in Oireachtas envelopes and headed paper.
One charity is asking them to consider it.
Tenants are paying a premium of up to 30% to move one stop.
Three in ten tenants also fear losing their houses.
Cork and Galway have had their biggest increases in at least 10 years.
The government’s rent-control measures were announced last week.
Proposed new legislation could see rent hikes only being allowed once every two years.
The number of recipients in Dublin makes up over a third of the overall number of people using the scheme.
The PRTB has issued advice to the public over the measures.
Full details of the plan agreed between the Finance and Environment ministers will be unveiled next Tuesday.
“Some old crank rang about a party last night.”
Or were you able to weather it out?
It comes as a new poll finds strong support for the minister’s rent certainty proposal.
There has been talk about penalties for landlords who don’t accept rent supplement, calls for the ban on bedsits to be lifted and continuous calls for more housing supply — so what is the answer? We asked two experts with different viewpoints what is at play here.
Inflation for low income households was above the average rate during the recession.
London has an even greater property shortage than Dublin, but many of its exclusive properties are being rented by wealthy foreign college students.
The student accommodation crisis is a barrier to education, and it needs action now, says USI president Kevin Donoghue.
The Daft.ie Rental report has just been released, and it’s not looking good for renters.
People looking for rental properties in all Ireland’s major cities are in for a rude shock.
Fancy having someone playing piano in your office? No problem with this kind of money.
An extra 172 families are now homeless since the action plan was published last December.
Two landlords had criminal proceedings brought against them.
It takes a project an average of 79 weeks from the date of planning application till the first builders start clearing the first square foot of the site for construction.
On-campus accommodation is snapped up a lightning speed, leaving vulnerable young people at the mercy of the inhospitable private market.
It’s very spacious, at least.
“If Steven Spielberg tried to create it for a horror movie, he couldn’t.”
The Labour minister wants to put the lid on prices by linking them to inflation.
Nether registered their tenancy as is required.
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The campaigner is not impressed by the government’s housing plans.
If county councils pay the difference between what people owe on their mortgages and what they can afford to pay the taxpayer foots the bill, writes Aaron McKenna.
Whatever action the government takes on Ireland’s housing debt crisis will be the ‘biggest political decision since Irish Water’ according to a householders’ group.