Owners of second homes in Wales are having to sell up. That’s no disaster: it’s a godsend

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• BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Allow one primary house, and a second one, tax the rest to fucking oblivion if not sold within a reasonable time frame

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why should someone be allowed a 2nd home without penalty in a country with housing scarcity?

    I’d say at least a 50% value tax on that as unnecessary consumption

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    • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because it’s not unreasonable to have a primary home and maybe a vacation home, or a family home, or a rental. More than that is absurd.
      The scarcity would decrease pretty fast, coupled with a situation where private companies can’t own houses and apartments, that would pretty much solve it

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  • Nanook@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Found the landlord! /s

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    • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wish I owned my home but unfortunately, I don’t have rich parents :(

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But what if no empty house?!

  😫😫😫

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• lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Having to sell to whom though. Blackstone or another private equity firm who buy on massive amounts of credit then jack up rents via monopoly pricing?

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