Galway Rental Crisis: Short-Term Lets Dominate
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Galways Rental Crisis: Short-Term Lets Dominate, Long-Term Rentals Scarce
In Galway, a severe rental crisis is unfolding, with short-term lets outnumbering long-term rentals by a staggering nine to one. As of September 2025, Airbnb listed over a thousand active properties, while Daft.ie showed only one hundred sixteen homes available for rent by March 2026. These figures, excluding single-room listings, are estimated to surpass twenty thousand. Local councils have seen minimal applications for short-term use conversions, with Galway County reporting none in 2025 and only two pending now. The city handled five applications last year, with two invalid and one conditionally approved. New registration rules have led to seventy warning letters to illegal operators, but enforcement remains challenging due to the lack of pre-booking addresses, leaving renters in a difficult position.
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