We were part of a conversation with Ciara Kelly on Newstalk’s ‘Lunchtime’ show discussing AirBnB and whether or not you can blame it for housing sector problems in Ireland. Our view is that it is part of a healthy market, but where a market is unhealthy you can’t say that it is the source of the disease, rather the malaise in Irish housing generally.
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