>Tourism Minister Nigel Huddleston said… “One of the options is to licence accommodation at one extreme, or we could end up doing nothing.”
Licencing is not an extreme option. It’s the very minimum you could do.
It’s not an issue that will be addressed though. I get the feeling that members of the government will personally lose money over this as their side immoral hustles are in any way curtailed.
On one hand you have half the country on strike and using food banks, the on the other hand you have holiday homes being bought up left right and centre. At some point the inequality in this country will suffer a correction, and I can’t imagine it will be pretty
AirBnB & the BTL mortgages have ravaged the housing industry more than the “lack of houses being built” comment I see thrown around.
The town over from me is 66% holiday homes, it’s a ghost town in the winter and packed to bursting all summer.
Plus it’s a popular retirment destination so over half the local pop is retired.
They should pay higher council tax and give breaks to locals.
Also farmland has gone insane, they are expecting 10k- 100k an acre in some cases idk who’s buying it but I doubt farmers would make a profit.
But it is a lovely place to live I can’t blame people but the government/council should have done something 10-20 years ago.
Like build actual affordable housing, some nice estates of 2 bed bungalows rented cheap to locals instead of the much needed 4-5 bed houses that seem to spring up in new developments.
And they do spend some money.
Not really surprising considering that COVID has been rampaging across the world for the last three years, periodically halting travel and making holidays abroad a gamble, meaning the staycation is a far safer option. On top of that you had Government ministers pushing for people to holiday in the UK to help boost the economy, again due COVID and the damage the needlessly excessive lockdowns caused to the hospitality industry. An uptick in holiday lets market can only be expected.
Add this to 1 in 4 sold properties in England’s poorest estates going to landlords and you get the full picture of what constitutes Tory “economic growth”. Bunch of spivs.
People are going to rage about this, but stop and consider that COVID caused a major surge in demand for holidays within the UK.
Maybe it has a lot to do with the higher demand for holidays in the UK. That would actually be a pretty welcome trend. Without a place to stay, a holiday sucks quite a bit.
Has anyone asked what the government response is to this?
Even if they weren’t being sold as holiday homes these places would cost a fortune. People would buy them as second homes, retirement homes and so on. 3 bed house in quaint location with a sea view is going to be expensive no matter what.
Best solution is to build cheap housing in/near areas where there is a demand.
Increase taxes on landlords because fuck them.
Landlords put up rents and look to sell.
People other than the tenants buy them because tenants can’t afford to buy which is why they were renting in the first place.
Tenants become homeless or pay even more as supply dwindles and demand for rentals remains the same. So tenants are worse off because of people hating on landlords and ignoring things like actual supply of housing and distribution in key areas…
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Whole property airbnb type let should be banned. It is destroying local communities.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45083954
>Tourism Minister Nigel Huddleston said… “One of the options is to licence accommodation at one extreme, or we could end up doing nothing.”
Licencing is not an extreme option. It’s the very minimum you could do.
It’s not an issue that will be addressed though. I get the feeling that members of the government will personally lose money over this as their side immoral hustles are in any way curtailed.
On one hand you have half the country on strike and using food banks, the on the other hand you have holiday homes being bought up left right and centre. At some point the inequality in this country will suffer a correction, and I can’t imagine it will be pretty
AirBnB & the BTL mortgages have ravaged the housing industry more than the “lack of houses being built” comment I see thrown around.
The town over from me is 66% holiday homes, it’s a ghost town in the winter and packed to bursting all summer.
Plus it’s a popular retirment destination so over half the local pop is retired.
They should pay higher council tax and give breaks to locals.
Also farmland has gone insane, they are expecting 10k- 100k an acre in some cases idk who’s buying it but I doubt farmers would make a profit.
But it is a lovely place to live I can’t blame people but the government/council should have done something 10-20 years ago.
Like build actual affordable housing, some nice estates of 2 bed bungalows rented cheap to locals instead of the much needed 4-5 bed houses that seem to spring up in new developments.
And they do spend some money.
Not really surprising considering that COVID has been rampaging across the world for the last three years, periodically halting travel and making holidays abroad a gamble, meaning the staycation is a far safer option. On top of that you had Government ministers pushing for people to holiday in the UK to help boost the economy, again due COVID and the damage the needlessly excessive lockdowns caused to the hospitality industry. An uptick in holiday lets market can only be expected.
Add this to 1 in 4 sold properties in England’s poorest estates going to landlords and you get the full picture of what constitutes Tory “economic growth”. Bunch of spivs.
People are going to rage about this, but stop and consider that COVID caused a major surge in demand for holidays within the UK.
Maybe it has a lot to do with the higher demand for holidays in the UK. That would actually be a pretty welcome trend. Without a place to stay, a holiday sucks quite a bit.
Has anyone asked what the government response is to this?
Even if they weren’t being sold as holiday homes these places would cost a fortune. People would buy them as second homes, retirement homes and so on. 3 bed house in quaint location with a sea view is going to be expensive no matter what.
Best solution is to build cheap housing in/near areas where there is a demand.
Increase taxes on landlords because fuck them.
Landlords put up rents and look to sell.
People other than the tenants buy them because tenants can’t afford to buy which is why they were renting in the first place.
Tenants become homeless or pay even more as supply dwindles and demand for rentals remains the same. So tenants are worse off because of people hating on landlords and ignoring things like actual supply of housing and distribution in key areas…
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