solve the housing problem easily...some solutions?

However it is important to take into account the entire country rather than a single street as your street may not be representative of the whole country.

We need to be careful generalizing from a particular example to the whole country.

It's not only Dublin though.

It's actually the entire country basically. Just search Limerick , Cork, Galway or even towns or counties such as Kildare. You are getting single digits, double digits for rental properties in towns and cities!

And this my friends is a record breaking situation

Limerick city -8, Galway City -33, Cork City - 45, Kildare County -53 , Athlone and Surrounds -11, Waterford County -28

The situation seems to be as bad as Dublin or worse in certain places such as Limerick.

It will make no difference. People ate too afraid to rent longterm now especially where they will require possession of the house within the next 12-36 months. Even then the rules regarding renting are too onerous for anyone entering the market now.

If you target you 90 day allowance to weekend's and high priced times ( concerts etc) you can probably achieve 8-10k for a one bed and 15k for a two bed. Maybe leave a few card at the accomodation for off the book lettings.

Most of the houses that have left the long term letting ate never returning. If they continue to change the rules much further when my present tenant's leave o e of my properties ( a small farmhouse) I be changing it to an aerBnB.

The funny thing is I will have no problem changing the planning I reckon on a H&S grounds

Tourism is our biggest indigenous industry. Tourism industry is reckoned to take a 1 billion hit next year due to hotels used for refugees n asylum seekers. If air bnb is banned we can forget about tourism going forward.

https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/ireland-inbound-tourist-numbers-in-february-still-below-pre-pandemic-levels/

According to ITIC, employment in the tourism sector was at around 242,500 in February

It’s not private landlords or Airbnb’s fault for the situation we are in. It’s the government who have no plan apart from to get private developers to build for them - why can’t our county council’s build again? We have plenty of empty buildings, both residential and commercial - why don’t the county councils renovate them so they can be put back into use?

So your solution to the housing crisis is to kill the tourism industry in Ireland?

I agree with everything regarding LA and house building. If the councils build or refurbish more it will effect building elsewhere as resources will be transfered from ron one area to another. However I do think with tweaks to the system we can get nearer 30k units per year.....as long as it's profitable for developers/builders to continue and as long as they can access resources.

However I think that banning aerBnB will return houses to residential use is probably optimistic and unrealistic.

I think a large cohort will either continue the 90 day use and let the property empty. Remember these regs are only for RPZ's anyway.

I think if the government wants to bring those sorts of numbers back in use in the rental area it needs to change some of the rental regulation and give a carrot to these people to return

However any carrot would have to knock on effects on small LL and would cost the government too much

A large component of the "cost" of a house is the sunk cost that is paid for the land when developers outbid each other for stupid money.

I came across a while back, a 1 acre site that has a ruin of a clay walled cottage cottage on it, plus planning permission which necessitates incorporation of that old cottage into a new house, which is for sale about a half a mile outside a village for nearly 400k.

So people are going on about inflation in construction costs. Yet the estate agent selling the above place thinks that there is value in paying 400k for that site, paying to construct a house on it vs. buying an already built one. It's not even a nice site.

The only thing that is giving it the 400k "value" is that there is planning permission on it. That is an almost wholly arbitrary man-made designation.

Rural cluster sites in the area will cost you a minimum of 200k. A problem which would be easily solved by doubling the number of such clusters overnight with a strict time limit for planning expiration - after which the site is sterlised forever.

They can't be all "accidental landlords" or people who bought after airbnb became a thing.

If you think that 25k landlords will board up their houses and let them sit there to rot if they can't rent them out on airbnb then you must be smoking something strong.

You must be a financial genius.