This summer boasts nearly 18,000 short-term rentals - a staggering 12 percent increase since last April and nearly 50 percent surge since March 2021. With many second-home owners easing off the Cape to return to their regular routines, they're eager to offset costs by renting out their properties. One major factor behind the sudden shift is the aftermath of the pandemic-fueled frenzy in second-home purchases that swept Cape Cod
A derelict school in Livingston is set to be knocked down as part of a plan to build 47 homes. Cedarbank School, which caters for pupils with additional needs, relocated in 2022. Its former home just off Ladywell East Road was left vacant as a result with many locals feeling the abandoned site is an eyesore. Springfield Partnerships has submitted plans to West Lothian Council for a development of affordable two-bedroom apartments. The project also includes a large green space, benches, parking...
A detailed planning application to finalise the design of the homes will be submitted next before building starts later this year
State Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole remembers playing as a boy in the 1990s at homes in Kaneohe that have now become illegal short-term rentals — including one directly behind his house that’s outfitted with a putting green and tiki torches.
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Dublin 12 is set to welcome a new community with draft plans unveiled for the Bluebell Waterways development, which consists of almost 400 apartments.
The full House and Senate will now consider the question of whether to allow each county to determine how — if at all — to regulate short-term vacation rentals on their islands, including the possibility of outlawing them.
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The Labour leader claims the aim of home ownership has all but disappeared under the Conservative government.
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A bill that gives counties the clear authority to regulate short-term vacation rentals, including the power to ban them, unanimously passed out of a joint House-Senate conference committee today ahead of a vote by the full House and Senate next week.