Short-Term Tourist Letting Register

I currently rent out my apartment on air B&B when I'm away on business or holidays (up to the 90 days allowed per Year).

So now I will need planning permission for change of use for my own principal residence to go on a register? i.e. Airbnb is effectively over as an option for me now?

We do short term let's to an annex on our family home which was a granny flat ( 2 bedrooms ensure and kitchen only) its not suitable for long term let's as in very rural location. I suppose I will now have to pay bord failte to register for this quango... bet they will charge full wack regardless on how much business we do which is only usually the late spring and summer months

Dont think that has been mentioned, but using the "Property Owner Pays" principle I would expect there will be some kind of charge.

I think it will bring more houses to the market though-airbnb has been a very easy way to make a lot of money. Especially people that are retired. I've met a lot in the remote tourist regions that do airbnb, they pay very little tax and they hire a person 8 hours a week and get 12-1800 per week for 9-10 months of the year. It's a no brainer.

Will it fix the problem? no

Will they rent long term? no, not in the state the rental market is in at the moment, everyone blaming landlords for the problems, and the paperwork and legislation involved is way too much , and that's only about the good tenants, throw a bad tenant into the mix and it's a full time job to be a landlord and/or try to get them out.

Just read citizens information site.

Exemptions from the planning permission requirements

You do not have to apply for planning permission if:

• Your property is not in a Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ)
• Your property is in an RPZ, but you let rooms or the entire property out for 15 days or more at a time
• Your property already has planning permission to be used for tourism or short-term letting purposes
• Your property is used for corporate or executive lets. For example, lettings provided for people coming to Ireland under employment contracts.
• You rent your property out under the rent-a-room scheme
• You are ‘home-sharing’. Home-sharing is where a homeowner rents a room or rooms in their principal private residence for short-term lets while they are also occupying it. (In this situation you can offer unlimited short-term lettings for less than 14 days at a time.)
• You rent out your entire principal private residence for short-term visitors for less than 90 days a year while you are temporarily away. The 90 days do not have to be consecutive.
• The property is purpose-built student accommodation. (This accommodation generally has the required planning permission, which means accommodation is reserved for students during the academic year, but short-stays are allowed outside of term time.)

Of course, they in the business of extracting money out of you, another big quango https://www.failteireland.ie/Supports/Get-quality-assured/Welcome-standard/Welcome-Standard-FAQs/Q-What-is-the-cost.aspx

They make property inspections and also have rules around service provision and also you will need a fire cert.

Looks like this will kill casual short term lets stone dead. A typical earner will need over €500 in bookings to break even on the likely registration charge alone, on top of the hassle of it. If you are into Airbnb in a big way, it won't change the calculus much

One off rooms however will not go into long term rental, they will just be unavailable. The measure itself won't have a real impact on rental availability and will just increase pressure in the tourist accommodation market.

Everyone loses.

Bord Failte have indicated that you will also need to register with them if you are short term letting rooms in your home - the link is in the post above. There will be a fee, recurring annually for this. The level of this fee has not been set, but if it's like BF's other fees it will be about €250 in year 1 and €150 every year to renew.

As I said, it will kill off casual short term lets for no tangible benefit. Rooms will lie empty, instead of bringing in visitors.

From BF website, information advance of the new regime:

What is Short Term Tourist Letting Accommodation?

Anyone offering paid accommodation for periods of up to and including 21 nights will be required to register on the Short Term Tourist Letting Register.

Short Term Tourist Letting properties include the following:

• Room(s) in a primary residence

• Entire property (includes but not limited to; a house, an apartment, cabin, boat, yurt, treehouse, etc)

• Multiple units at a site / Complex (eg. adventure centre with accommodation, glamping site, multiple ‘own door’ units in the one building)

Why? Because having a full time lodger is a much greater imposition than having someone stay for a holiday.

A casual Airbnb user, say one that does three weeks of short lets a year likely doesn't want a full time lodger (otherwise they would have one in already). They will just forgo getting involved at all now since the taxes and charges make it not worthwhile.

Prove what though?

I live between two places, when I'm working in Dublin I use my apartment there for that.

I'm still none the wiser with this announcement from the Government - is the 90 days allowance now being done away with?

Honesty this country is getting more and more unlivable every day.

In a practical sense that won't work for many people. You might be able to tolerate having a short term let in your house while you yourself are away. You may not even have the space for a lodger, if the short term let bed is also your space when you are there.

Many of the casually interested in Airbnb are just not going to bother anymore imo.

I can guarantee that it will have unintended consequences - the same as all ill thought out populist policies.

Letting a room in your home under the rent a room sheme is great for first time buyers needing a bit help with the mortgage but forget about it for older settled people who have their mortgages etc paid off. And the rest majority of Airbnb places particularly in rural areas are run by older people as far as I'm aware. Older people like their privacy and do Airbnb for a night or two here and there. Who wants a long term tennent in their home, using their kitchen, fridge, living room etc, not a hope would many do it, same as so many pulled out of hosting ukariane refugees when they realised what was involved. . Besides what tennent will be willing to pay €14000 a year to rent a room. It's all a big shambles.