Just under 390 landlords in Dublin made more than €21 million this year by letting properties on Airbnb, the short-term rental website. The figure prompted fresh calls for the government to crack down on property listings on the website as rents remained at a record high. In the past 12 months 386 landlords listed 581 properties in the capital exclusively on the letting website at an average income of more than €37,000 per property, analysis by The Times indicates. This is double the average rent — €18,540 — earned in Dublin, according to Daft.ie, the property website. In Cork city there are almost 100 properties that have been taken out of the residential market because they are available for more than six months of the
Irish politicians are calling for more regulation of the accommodation sharing economy after it emerged almost 100 Dublin landlords, whose properties were listed on Airbnb, made more than €21m in 2016. Calls for an annual limit, similar to those imposed by London and Amsterdam, are growing. Barry Cowen, Fianna Fail spokesman on housing, said there was growing evidence that short-term rentals were "substantially eating into permanent residential housing supply in Dublin".