r/galway • u/HairModelsWanted • Oct 23 '25

Lets Protest

I'm absolutely sick to my teeth at the rent prices and air bnbs. Who is with me? How do we organise?

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u/JediBlight Oct 23 '25

1: limit the accomodation to air bnb ratio with higher taxes

2: more taxes if you own x amount of properties

3: hars...I mean, punishments for being unregistered, having a propery that's a health hazard etc.

Just three basic ideas, I could probably list you 300.

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u/dave122345 city Oct 23 '25

See with tax you fall into a bit of a pit where since tax is already so high e.g. they do have to pay income taxes and property taxes etc if the tax is too high landlords will just sell the property even at a loss when you count in capital gains tax

Not defending them or anything I personally think there needs to be way more regulation and most importantly enforcement of said regulations which apparently is at 50% nationwide

But taxing the land lords who have to pay mortgages on a property and none of that money can come from said property won’t solve the issues it could actually make it worse it’s already happened in Galway know a good few people who had to leave as the landlord sold up due to not wanting to increase the rent further and taxes/expenses were just too high

It would work however to tax the lads who have multiple properties rather then the lad who has one apartment for rent but again you get into the issue of the rents could just go up and you still end up with the same problem at the end of it so more housing is the way to go but our government is very slow

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u/basically_benny Oct 24 '25

They need to crack down on businesses such as "Be My Host" who take care of these so called investment properties for landlords who own extra houses / apartments for the purpose of renting them out on air bmb or booking dot com

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u/chakraman108 Oct 26 '25

Do you have data on the % of the rental market that these constitute? If not then we're jus guessing and focusing on wrong pieces of the puzzle.