A lamp post on Lincoln Lane off Arran Quay in Dublin with several lock boxes containing keys for short-term rentals. Threshold said more than 8,600 homes were being advertised as short-term lets nationwide in March, compared to just 2,100 homes listed on Daft.ie as private rentals. The charity based its analysis on data harvested by Inside Airbnb, a US-based platform that uses publicly available information to highlight the impact of short-term rentals on communities. A new system for regulating short-term lets is due to take force from May 20th. Although Dublin was the county with the highest number of short-term lets recorded, at 2,406, this was just 2.3 times the number of long-term rentals advertised on Daft.

Source: The Irish Times March 13, 2026 09:03 UTC