The Department of Housing has said that the housing minister will not meet Airbnb until officials have drawn up guidelines to stop landlords turning residential properties into commercial short-term lets. On Thursday Simon Coveney said that he would write to local authorities to end confusion over the procedure for dealing with complaints from residents about Airbnb. The directive has not been finalised but is likely to changethe law so that if a host rents their entire property for more than a certain number of nights per year they will need to apply for commercial planning permission. A spokesman for Airbnb…

Source: The Times October 21, 2016 23:00 UTC