THIS WEEK THERE was some unwelcome news for those that rent out rooms with Airbnb.

There was also progress with the planning permission for the new National Children’s Hospital on the St James’s Hospital campus in Dublin.

Here is all the week’s property news.

The Big Movers

National Children’s Hospital  

This week planning permission was submitted to An Bord Pleanala for building the new National Children’s Hospital on the St James’s Hospital campus site.

If approval is given for the building then the facility could be up and running within five years. Constructing the hospital has been priced at €650 million.

Plans for the hospital show that it will be seven storeys at its highest point, with 384 in-patient beds and a therapeutic roof garden for its child patients.

The Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has said that he is expecting objections to be made about the building, but that, “there is also a huge amount of support behind it”.

How the new hospital might look

Airbnb

A public meeting was held on Tuesday for people who act as hosts with Airbnb.

The company was holding an information session about the fact that it will be handing over information to the Revenue Commissioners about earnings since May 2014.

It has said that it is legally obliged to provide the information to the Office of the Revenue Commissioners as its non-US base is situated in Ireland. It has been reported that hosts are not happy with this development and voiced their opposition to it.

Under Construction

• Toronto, a hot-bed of Irish emigration, has been named as the world’s most liveable city. 
• The Dublin Regional Homeless Executive has revealed that the number of homeless families in Dublin has doubled in the last year. 
• A South Dublin County Councillor has said that individuals should be allowed to house families in caravans in their back gardens.

Des Res

This week Business Insider is reporting on Rupert Murdoch’s New York property that has come onto the market for $28.9 million (€26 million). The property had originally functioned as a bed and breakfast but has been converted into a mansion by the media mogul .