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Dublin - Significant reduction in rents coming?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,367 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    PommieBast wrote: »
    From memory even Threshold has admitted that the number one cause of homelessness is landlords selling up. Pretty ironic given that they actively encourage the sort of tenant militancy that is driving LL's to stampede for the exit.


    Or as in my case. Frighten me away from buying an investment property.
    Myself and my brother were all gung ho to buy investment property and then we researched it and the legislation is a killer. As is how often it changes.
    We decided not to buy investment property in Ireland. We have had one in Spain for many years and it works out very well. So instead of one in Ireland we are currently looking at another in Spain. Ireland is just the enemy of the residential property investor.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    I would say not if you have deep pockets. Problems seem to rare (not that we accurate stats on it) and if you can weather a year or two of a property not earning, and repairs that could be massive, but usually aren't. It still has a decent return, if you don't pay too much and the rent is worthwhile.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,367 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    beauf wrote: »
    I would say not if you have deep pockets. Problems seem to rare (not that we accurate stats on it) and if you can weather a year or two of a property not earning, and repairs that could be massive, but usually aren't. It still has a decent return, if you don't pay too much and the rent is worthwhile.


    Big problem is what legislation they feel like enacting at any given time.
    There is no stability whatsoever. The only thing you can depend on is that they are going to keep picking on the residential investor and things will get worse for them, not better. You dont play a game where they keep changing the rules against you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭brisan


    There again you have a landlord /agency renting out an apartment with no electricity and telling the tenant they have to pay the reconnection fee
    Landlords like that should get a heavy no questions asked fine

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=115415045#post115415045


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 45 jr1942


    brisan wrote: »
    There again you have a landlord /agency renting out an apartment with no electricity and telling the tenant they have to pay the reconnection fee
    Landlords like that should get a heavy no questions asked fine

    Or one great landlord such as this one?
    ... vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058134742

    Or ie mine who tried to increase rent for 20% few months ago with 10 days notice, after already paying top end price.
    And no, I am not talking about an odd 'scumbag' type of person but a landlord with very high education and top tier job well familiar with regulations - actually to make things funnier guy works in a related audit role for things like this, hasn't stopped him of trying to do so.

    Shall we continue?
    90% of landlords are absolute parasites of society no doubt about it.
    Being a "good" landlord, not working/contributing to society, but picking up rent obviously falls into this criteria as well.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,367 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    jr1942 wrote: »
    Or one great landlord such as this one?
    ... vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058134742

    Or ie mine who tried to increase rent for 20% few months ago with 10 days notice, after already paying top end price.
    And no, I am not talking about an odd 'scumbag' type of person but a landlord with very high education and top tier job well familiar with regulations - actually to make things funnier guy works in a related audit role for things like this, hasn't stopped him of trying to do so.

    Shall we continue?
    90% of landlords are absolute parasites of society no doubt about it.
    Being a "good" landlord, not working/contributing to society, but picking up rent obviously falls into this criteria as well.


    No need to worry, there wont too many left going forward anyway.
    Reits will concentrate on apartments in cities, so im guessing renting apartments will still be easy enough, maybe expensive though. I see a day though when there is a severe shortage of houses to rent for families.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭WhiteMemento9


    Dav010 wrote: »
    Though I know this article is not about accommodation, it probably will have an indirect effect on it. Microsoft are the first tech company that I have read (there may be others) who have stated that employees currently wfh will be returning to their offices when Government rules are lifted, along with 200 new employees.

    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.rte.ie/amp/1179829/

    Weird they have stated the opposite only a few weeks back.

    https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/9/21508964/microsoft-remote-work-from-home-covid-19-coronavirus


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭timetogo1



    That's not saying the opposite. The article you quoted says employees will be able to work from home for less than 50% of their week.

    My company is similar. We expect the office space to be reduced and we will be working from home much more but we don't have the option of working 100% at home when life goes back to normal.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭WhiteMemento9


    timetogo1 wrote: »
    That's not saying the opposite. The article you quoted says employees will be able to work from home for less than 50% of their week.

    My company is similar. We expect the office space to be reduced and we will be working from home much more but we don't have the option of working 100% at home when life goes back to normal.

    No part of the option is fully remote with approval.
    Microsoft will now allow employees to work from home freely for less than 50 percent of their working week, or for managers to approve permanent remote work.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭rightmove


    jr1942 wrote: »
    Or one great landlord such as this one?
    ... vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058134742

    Or ie mine who tried to increase rent for 20% few months ago with 10 days notice, after already paying top end price.
    And no, I am not talking about an odd 'scumbag' type of person but a landlord with very high education and top tier job well familiar with regulations - actually to make things funnier guy works in a related audit role for things like this, hasn't stopped him of trying to do so.

    Shall we continue?
    90% of landlords are absolute parasites of society no doubt about it.
    Being a "good" landlord, not working/contributing to society, but picking up rent obviously falls into this criteria as well.

    seriously what are you dribbling on about. RTB is there just for tenants and funded by landlord. 90% ...wow I love the use of "facts"...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 45 jr1942


    rightmove wrote: »
    seriously what are you dribbling on about. RTB is there just for tenants and funded by landlord. 90% ...wow I love the use of "facts"...

    I would have said 100% but wanted to stay truthful to UB40's One in ten song.
    Which goes:

    I am the one in ten
    A number on a list
    I am the one in ten
    Even though I don't exist
    Nobody Knows me
    Even though I'm always there
    A statistic, a reminder
    Of a world that doesn't care


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    jr1942 wrote: »
    I would have said ....

    If you don't like them don't use them. End of problem.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


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    jr1942, please read the forum charter before posting again.

    Do not reply to this post.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Manion


    No part of the option is fully remote with approval.

    I think WFH will open up a world of options for people, even if it is only 50% of the time. Only needing to be in the office 10 days a month opens up intercity commuting as an option for example. It's all about the marginal person, the person who will either not rent in Dublin or rent in an area of Dublin suburbs with the right WFH options. The company I work for has gone from a very restrictive working from home policy to something that is very liberal. I don't think it's in the best interest of the company I work for but employee attitudes have changed and it's now seen as a more reasonable expectation. The real question will be, where will people want to live and do our city centers have enough to attract people who aren't otherwise forced to live there.


  • Registered Users Posts: 953 ✭✭✭Ozark707


    Manion wrote: »
    I think WFH will open up a world of options for people, even if it is only 50% of the time. Only needing to be in the office 10 days a month opens up intercity commuting as an option for example. It's all about the marginal person, the person who will either not rent in Dublin or rent in an area of Dublin suburbs with the right WFH options. The company I work for has gone from a very restrictive working from home policy to something that is very liberal. I don't think it's in the best interest of the company I work for but employee attitudes have changed and it's now seen as a more reasonable expectation. The real question will be, where will people want to live and do our city centers have enough to attract people who aren't otherwise forced to live there.

    That is the great unknown for me. I think a number of people who have been priced out of Dublin will decide on moving to the likes of Carlow and stomach the trip to Dublin twice a week. The commute will not be as bad as before so that will also help these people on the days they have to make the commute. If rents in the CC drop even more you then might find people to start to move back in if they need or want to be there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,367 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    Ozark707 wrote: »
    That is the great unknown for me. I think a number of people who have been priced out of Dublin will decide on moving to the likes of Carlow and stomach the trip to Dublin twice a week. The commute will not be as bad as before so that will also help these people on the days they have to make the commute. If rents in the CC drop even more you then might find people to start to move back in if they need or want to be there.

    I think people are putting too much stick in this remote working thing. Its a risk to gamble on being allowed to work remotely long term. OR what if you have to change jobs and you cant get a remote working one anymore.

    Myself, I think that a lot of people are going to jump now or in the next year and move out of Dublin because they are working remotely now.
    After that I see most companies realizing that working remotely is far less productive for the company and go back to requiring people in the office. Maybe they will go for 1 day a week remote working.
    And once someone changes job they are going to be limited in what jobs they can apply for if they are living in Carlow and most of their type of work is in Dublin.


    I think its all going to go back to the way it was pre-covid in a year or two.
    Anyone caught with a long commute then its just going to get worse.
    Add to that all the people moving back to Dublin and students going back and I think we are in for a big property squeeze again, with people stuck doing nightmare commutes because they bought too far away.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭AssetBacked2


    JimmyVik wrote: »
    I think people are putting too much stick in this remote working thing. Its a risk to gamble on being allowed to work remotely long term. OR what if you have to change jobs and you cant get a remote working one anymore.

    Myself, I think that a lot of people are going to jump now or in the next year and move out of Dublin because they are working remotely now.
    After that I see most companies realizing that working remotely is far less productive for the company and go back to requiring people in the office. Maybe they will go for 1 day a week remote working.
    And once someone changes job they are going to be limited in what jobs they can apply for if they are living in Carlow and most of their type of work is in Dublin.


    I think its all going to go back to the way it was pre-covid in a year or two.
    Anyone caught with a long commute then its just going to get worse.
    Add to that all the people moving back to Dublin and students going back and I think we are in for a big property squeeze again, with people stuck doing nightmare commutes because they bought too far away.

    You think they will "realise" this? So already it must be showing that it is less productive for them? So unproductive that it necessarily requires full attendance back in the office?

    I'm not so sure. We are now 8 months into WFH and guaranteed to continue to be so on a large scale until the vaccine is rolled out to the vulnerable which looks like another few months anyway. Long story short, it will be close to a year WFH. As loathe as a I am to use the term "new normal", I have to question people who talk about "going back to before" in the context of a year of change. When does the change become the normal?

    Predicting a property demand surge on the assumption that there is a previous normal to return to is a big leap. The economy is not a tap that just gets turned back on; government borrowing needs to be sustained until we are fully out of the woods with covid (i.e. no more masks, social distancing or travel restrictions) and then some (as the government borrowing to seed an economic recovery will take a significant amount of borrowing). At the very earliest I would say another 6 months of restrictions, following which the economic rebuilding can begin.

    There is a famous chart on the emotions of the market, which I feel is very appropriate for the economy this year. All signs point to "euphoria" with some "anxiety" this year (especially note the quote in the chart which is verbatim what many companies and investors have been saying, "Temporary set back, I'm a long term investor"). Just take note of the trajectory on this chart from here!

    cycle-of-emotions.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,367 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    You think they will "realise" this? So already it must be showing that it is less productive for them? So unproductive that it necessarily requires full attendance back in the office?

    I'm not so sure. We are now 8 months into WFH and guaranteed to continue to be so on a large scale until the vaccine is rolled out to the vulnerable which looks like another few months anyway. Long story short, it will be close to a year WFH. As loathe as a I am to use the term "new normal", I have to question people who talk about "going back to before" in the context of a year of change. When does the change become the normal?

    Predicting a property demand surge on the assumption that there is a previous normal to return to is a big leap. The economy is not a tap that just gets turned back on; government borrowing needs to be sustained until we are fully out of the woods with covid (i.e. no more masks, social distancing or travel restrictions) and then some (as the government borrowing to seed an economic recovery will take a significant amount of borrowing). At the very earliest I would say another 6 months of restrictions, following which the economic rebuilding can begin.

    There is a famous chart on the emotions of the market, which I feel is very appropriate for the economy this year. All signs point to "euphoria" with some "anxiety" this year (especially note the quote in the chart which is verbatim what many companies and investors have been saying, "Temporary set back, I'm a long term investor"). Just take note of the trajectory on this chart from here!

    cycle-of-emotions.jpg

    We will have to agree to disagree.
    I think its a bigger leap to think that things wont go back to normal over the next year or two.
    I would say we are at the relief stage there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    JimmyVik wrote: »
    ....I see most companies realizing that working remotely is far less productive for the company...

    I think thats debatable. In my experience those people struggling with tracking productivity in the WFH scenario probably don't track it in the office, they think they do by presenteeism but they most likely aren't. But thats a discussion for a different thread.

    But I do agree its a bit early for a mass migration out of the city and suburbs.
    Job mobility is a valid point. I think it will take companies some time to work out where level of WFH they are happy with. Until that happens over the next 12~24 months, people would be wiser not committing to any big life choices.

    That's assuming there is supply to be had outside the cities.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Manion


    JimmyVik wrote: »
    I think people are putting too much stick in this remote working thing. Its a risk to gamble on being allowed to work remotely long term. OR what if you have to change jobs and you cant get a remote working one anymore.

    I'd say you don't need to take the long term view when it comes to renting. Leases are usually only a year and push comes to shove you can break a lease as a tenant. You really need to think about the marginal person, or the marginal behaviour. WFH doesn't need to be something that works for the majority of people or companies, all you need is for a big enough proportion of people to available of it relative to the gap in supply versus demand (note I did not say absolute supply or absolute demand) for there to be a dramatic effect.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Manion wrote: »
    I'd say you don't need to take the long term view when it comes to renting. Leases are usually only a year and push comes to shove you can break a lease as a tenant. You really need to think about the marginal person, or the marginal behaviour. WFH doesn't need to be something that works for the majority of people or companies, all you need is for a big enough proportion of people to available of it relative to the gap in supply versus demand (note I did not say absolute supply or absolute demand) for there to be a dramatic effect.

    The thing about the RPZ is that one effect of it used to be. That if a tenancy stuck on a lower rent than market price they are slow to leave it, as a new place will be at the market rent.

    This might be a little different now the top of the market and Airbnb has dropped or disappeared etc.
    But is it true of the lower and middle of the market, in the cities and in the middle of nowhere?
    Also while supply has increased, it there still a shortage? If so in what parts of the market.

    In addition, if tenants can break leases with no penalty what's the impact of that on the market.
    I know what it was like before in the 80's and 90's. But back then there wasn't a supply shortage and the costs and risks were low.

    Interesting times ahead.


  • Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭dev_ire


    It is simple, buy (or rent) where you want to live along with a view of where you work/want to work.
    It would be silly to buy based on thinking you can work from home part time or full time in a year or not either way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭AssetBacked2


    A qualification to that is the affordability crisis with housing (purchasing and renting) in Ireland. Some would argue it is so bad that there is practically no choice at the moment due to the affordability issues.


  • Registered Users Posts: 953 ✭✭✭Ozark707


    DCC indicating that ~70% of the 900 Airbnb properties they followed up on reverted to long term rental. Seems they got through an impressive amount of work.
    According to new figures from Dublin City Council, up to 70% of suspected illegal Airbnb-style holiday lets in Dublin city have returned to the full-time rental market since the start of the pandemic.

    About 900 properties in the city were being investigated by the council for suspected breaches of the legislation since from July 2019, owners of properties in rent pressure zones have had to obtain planning permission to use their housing for short-term lets for more than three months each year. The council’s policy is usually to refuse permission, to prevent the loss of permanent rental accommodation in the city.

    During the pandemic, the council has contacted the owners of those properties and asked about their intentions; 60-70% said they have reverted to long-term use.

    https://hub.theasap.org.uk/900-of-dublins-airbnb-style-lets-return-to-long-term-market/


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    Ozark707 wrote: »
    DCC indicating that ~70% of the 900 Airbnb properties they followed up on reverted to long term rental. Seems they got through an impressive amount of work.



    https://hub.theasap.org.uk/900-of-dublins-airbnb-style-lets-return-to-long-term-market/

    “During the pandemic, the council has contacted the owners of those properties and asked about their intentions; 60-70% said they have reverted to long-term use.”

    Ozark, I’m surprised the other 30-40% didn’t also tell them when asked that they were reverting to long term rental. They are effectively being asked “are you doing something illegal?”.

    What did you expect them to say?


  • Registered Users Posts: 953 ✭✭✭Ozark707


    Dav010 wrote: »
    “During the pandemic, the council has contacted the owners of those properties and asked about their intentions; 60-70% said they have reverted to long-term use.”

    Ozark, I’m surprised the other 30-40% didn’t also tell them when asked that they were reverting to long term rental. They are effectively being asked “are you doing something illegal?”.

    What did you expect them to say?

    Dav, it seems they didn't just ask a question...
    The owners of the properties were required to provide the council with tenancy agreements with their new residents, to confirm they are operating as traditional landlords, providing tenancy agreements as proof.


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    Ozark707 wrote: »
    Dav, it seems they didn't just ask a question...

    Ozark. Think about it. Airbnb properties were suddenly able to produce long term leases when asked during the pandemic, at a time when rentals were emptying and there was no demand. You think 600 short term rentals were able to find tenants just when they needed to show the leases to DCC?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Anecdotally, plenty of ex-airbnb's on the likes of Daft would suggest a significant number were put up for long-term rent. A much more likely reason than 70% of 900 landlord forging tenancy agreements.

    Would make sense given the impact of Covid, never mind the approaches by LAs.

    Good to see all the same.


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    Graham wrote: »
    Anecdotally, plenty of ex-airbnb's on the likes of Daft would suggest a significant number were put up for long-term rent. A much more likely reason than 70% of 900 landlord forging tenancy agreements.

    Would make sense given the impact of Covid, never mind the approaches by LAs.

    Good to see all the same.

    Those Airbnb owners must be the luckiest Landlords in Ireland, 70% of them rented their properties at time when thousands are empty and demand is at its lowest for years.

    There are currently 4660 full rental properties listed on Airbnb in Dublin.


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Dav010 wrote: »
    Those Airbnb owners must be the luckiest Landlords in Ireland, 70% of them rented their properties at time when thousands are empty and demand is at its lowest for years.

    Might explain why rents dropped in some areas.

    Like I said, that's a much more realistic explanation than 70% of landlords forging tenancy agreements to try and pull a fast one with DCC.

    4,660 properties left for DCC to sort :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭TSQ


    Dav010 wrote: »
    Those Airbnb owners must be the luckiest Landlords in Ireland, 70% of them rented their properties at time when thousands are empty and demand is at its lowest for years.

    There are currently 4660 full rental properties listed on Airbnb in Dublin.

    Where did you get that very exact figure from? Out of curiosity, I did a search for entire property in Dublin for a week in December and there is no indication on the Airbnb site of exactly how many properties are available (300+ stated, but that could be 301 or 10,000).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    Graham wrote: »
    Anecdotally, plenty of ex-airbnb's on the likes of Daft would suggest a significant number were put up for long-term rent. A much more likely reason than 70% of 900 landlord forging tenancy agreements.

    Would make sense given the impact of Covid, never mind the approaches by LAs.

    Good to see all the same.


    It says "The owners of the properties were required to provide the council with tenancy agreements with their new residents, to confirm they are operating as traditional landlords, providing tenancy agreements as".


    It does not say those tenancy agreements where ever provided to the council.


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    TSQ wrote: »
    Where did you get that very exact figure from? Out of curiosity, I did a search for entire property in Dublin for a week in December and there is no indication on the Airbnb site of exactly how many properties are available (300+ stated, but that could be 301 or 10,000).

    http://insideairbnb.com/dublin/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 916 ✭✭✭whatnext


    As with all statistics the results derived are very much influenced by the questions asked and the sequence of the questions. If they were confident of their figures or the results they were going to achieve the results would be cross referenced with RTB data.
    Signed,
    An Airbnb owner.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    It says "The owners of the properties were required to provide the council with tenancy agreements with their new residents, to confirm they are operating as traditional landlords, providing tenancy agreements as".


    It does not say those tenancy agreements where ever provided to the council.

    lol, you're right it doesn't say that.
    “The copies of tenancy agreements we have got in show [the owners] seem to have gone for a three- or six-month period in the main to see where the market would go, but quite a lot of them have changed to 12-month leases as well,” Mr Fallon said.
    We are continuing to trawl the various websites and pick out places at random where we feel that letting may still be taking place in a number of inner-city locations and we are proactively going after those people as well.

    Great time to be an AirBnb 'host', those negative yields and threats of enforcement actions make for really sound property investments.

    Meanwhile back in the real world, there does appear to be downward pressure on rents in previously popular STL hotspots.

    My tuppence ha'penny worth;

    good


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Dav010 wrote: »
    There are currently 4660 full rental properties listed on Airbnb in Dublin.
    TSQ wrote: »
    Where did you get that very exact figure from?
    Dav010 wrote: »

    :confused:

    Dublin: 821 entire home/apartment

    Dublin City: 685 entire home/apartment

    In Dublin City there are now only 240 single property hosts remaining.


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    Graham wrote: »
    :confused:

    Dublin: 821 entire home/apartment

    Dublin City: 685 entire home/apartment

    In Dublin City there are now only 240 single property hosts remaining.

    http://insideairbnb.com/get-the-data.html

    If you scroll down to Dublin you can view the data, including the listings on Airbnb on 19/10/20.


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    Graham wrote: »
    lol, you're right it doesn't say that.





    Great time to be an AirBnb 'host', those negative yields and threats of enforcement actions make for really sound property investments.

    Meanwhile back in the real world, there does appear to be downward pressure on rents in previously popular STL hotspots.

    My tuppence ha'penny worth;

    good

    Y’know Graham, you just have to accept some owners don’t want to be landlords.
    Maybe a significant number of Airbnb owners own their property mortgage free, maybe they are willing to accept the hit rather than risk letting to tenants. Maybe they are renting for less than 6 months so that tenants can be removed and revert to SLT next summer.

    A Daft report a couple of months ago referenced the conversion of STLs to LTL, but said it was equivalent to approximately one days supply in Dublin.

    I have an Airbnb, I still get bookings from people who want short lets for business/family visits/isolating, the hotels being closed meant STLs are needed. I have bookings up to 23/12, so it’s not all bad news.

    There is now far more supply of rentals in Dublin then there has been for a long time, this disproportional interest some people have on what is a minuscule percentage of the rental property pool offering STLs is hard to understand.

    Edit. Just watching Peter McVarry on TV3 saying that he wants the law to change banning evictions outright and putting right to housing in the constitution. That would send a shudder down the spine of LLs. And, despite the fact that properties are available, homelessness has gone down marginally, so not much point using that as an argument against Airbnb’s.


  • Registered Users Posts: 953 ✭✭✭Ozark707


    Looks like daft's site redesign is preventing scraping (it seems to have removed the price changes notifications).

    It appears that it will not be possible to get any data after Novembers figures.

    https://sites.google.com/view/prettycharts

    We will have to rely on the Daft/CSO reports going forward which are not as frequent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,753 ✭✭✭cgcsb


    the search function on daft seems to be down entirely a few days, have people noticed this?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭brisan


    cgcsb wrote: »
    the search function on daft seems to be down entirely a few days, have people noticed this?

    working for me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭brisan


    https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/ashbrook-howth-road-clontarf-co-dublin/2592801
    Not a hope they will get those prices
    Its exceptionally rare to see this many properties in this complex come on stream at the one time
    Normally only one or maybe two a a time and even then that's rare


  • Registered Users Posts: 953 ✭✭✭Ozark707


    brisan wrote: »
    https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/ashbrook-howth-road-clontarf-co-dublin/2592801
    Not a hope they will get those prices
    Its exceptionally rare to see this many properties in this complex come on stream at the one time
    Normally only one or maybe two a a time and even then that's rare

    it indicates it is a new development, could it be a new phase there? Would they not get 1850 for a 2 bed?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭brisan


    Ozark707 wrote: »
    it indicates it is a new development, could it be a new phase there? Would they not get 1850 for a 2 bed?

    They are not new and 1850 is a high price for the area at the moment

    https://www.daft.ie/property-for-rent/dublin-3-dublin/apartments?rentalPrice_to=1800&numBeds_from=2&from=20&pageSize=20


  • Registered Users Posts: 953 ✭✭✭Ozark707


    brisan wrote: »

    Yes it is a bit pricey based on that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭brisan


    Ozark707 wrote: »
    Yes it is a bit pricey based on that.

    This time last year you would have paid well over 2k for a 2 bed in Clontarf if you could get one


  • Registered Users Posts: 953 ✭✭✭Ozark707


    brisan wrote: »
    This time last year you would have paid well over 2k for a 2 bed in Clontarf if you could get one

    Same (% drop) seems to be replicated in D4 now. Will be interesting to see if this trend continues in the new year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭brisan


    Ozark707 wrote: »
    Same (% drop) seems to be replicated in D4 now. Will be interesting to see if this trend continues in the new year.

    Clontarf was always very popular for rentals (proximity to city and coast ) but since the start of the year more rentals are coming on to the market at lower prices and staying up on DAFT for longer


  • Registered Users Posts: 953 ✭✭✭Ozark707


    brisan wrote: »
    Clontarf was always very popular for rentals (proximity to city and coast ) but since the start of the year more rentals are coming on to the market at lower prices and staying up on DAFT for longer

    If Clontarf was popular on Airbnb (I guess it was due to the proximity you cite) it would naturally have been badly affected by what happened in the STL market. I am not familiar really with the area but in the D2/4 area there has been quite a bit of new build that has or will soon enough hit the market. If employees come back from abroad in January (as there is some speculation) this should increase demand so prices might start to go back up.

    I am on a FB group which is 95% ex pats. This time last year you hardly saw someone advertise for a spare room etc. In the last 3 months it is nearly one every 1 or 2 weeks. Some have even come back after a month with an almost 10% drop in the price of rooms.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭brisan


    Ozark707 wrote: »
    If Clontarf was popular on Airbnb (I guess it was due to the proximity you cite) it would naturally have been badly affected by what happened in the STL market. I am not familiar really with the area but in the D2/4 area there has been quite a bit of new build that has or will soon enough hit the market. If employees come back from abroad in January (as there is some speculation) this should increase demand so prices might start to go back up.

    I am on a FB group which is 95% ex pats. This time last year you hardly saw someone advertise for a spare room etc. In the last 3 months it is nearly one every 1 or 2 weeks. Some have even come back after a month with an almost 10% drop in the price of rooms.

    I am not sure if there was a big Air b&b market in Clontarf
    Maybe there was
    However prices started dropping slightly and availability increasing late 2019
    Covid only increased the pace of both

    https://touch.daft.ie/for-rent/apartment-150-howth-road-clontarf-co-dublin/2610418
    These are a much better apartment complex .all rentals
    Very quiet and very well managed with someone on site 9-5 (MKN OWNED )
    Last year these were 2300-2500 for a 2 bed 2 bath apt
    Shops .pub ,takeaways chemist 100yards away and the Dart a 5 min walk


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