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Bob Villers

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Surely the use of entire properties for short term let's does indeed change the availability for long term housing? Air BnB started as letting out a room/ bed in an owner occupied property. It has evolved into something very different now. What would the negative impacts be of limiting short term let's to owner occupied properties unless planning/licencing approved?

From: Bob Villers 16 May 2022 09:58 AM

Surely the answer is to make the short term rental of anything other than a room/annexe in a privately owned and occupied house illegal. Otherwise it should be classified as a de facto B&B style business - and be run, taxed and regulated as such. The fact an Air BnB can rent a whole property without needing to follow any of the regulations a hotel/hostel or B&B does (fire regs. being the major one) seems a glaring anomaly. Enacting this (with proper and financially painful consequences for those who flout) would surely bring many properties back onto the long term rental market.

From: Bob Villers 14 December 2021 09:23 AM

Will this cover flats? Houses with no gardens? Deposit limit raised? Yet another flawed piece is legislation.

From: Bob Villers 08 January 2021 03:54 AM

Its is exactly like Rent to Rent! It IS Rent to Rent - just run by an agency. Landlords still have a legal liability in this scenario. Same old, same old.

From: Bob Villers 30 November 2020 10:58 AM

Sounds like he got off far too lightly. These fines need to be large enough to be scary. This sounds not nearly enough.

From: Bob Villers 10 December 2019 08:44 AM

Hardly news. This comes across as an advertorial

From: Bob Villers 26 July 2019 13:22 PM

Two totally situations To try to link them like this is fallacious at best.

From: Bob Villers 19 July 2019 09:23 AM

Link to the paper is not working.

From: Bob Villers 04 September 2018 07:57 AM

Heavily fined? £2k - thats it? They made more than that a month - until these fines/penalties get serious enough to actually hurt then flaunting the law pays so the unscrupulous will do so. They should also have been forced to open up their books and have all their other properties automatically inspected.

From: Bob Villers 04 July 2018 07:47 AM

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