We’re not building the right sort of houses though or at the kinda price to fix the housing crisis. A local development to us in Devon starts at £350k; maybe if we have loads of kids they can shoulder the burden of the mortgage between them.
Great news! This is exactly the effect these policies are meant to have.
I find it so bizarre that second home owners will go on about how much they love the area they’ve bought a house in and yet be completely oblivious to the effect it has on house prices for young people and families who actually live in the area.
A second home should be a heavily taxed luxury. with restrictions on the maximum number that can exist in any area. Housing policy in the UK is such a shitshow.
Funny how a nation who’s population is technically below replacement is struggling so much with housing
Nice to see some good news.
The more hoops these house hoarders and Land Baron LARPers have to jump through the better.
I’m in Pembrokeshire trying to buy my first ever house. This is fantastic news. Fuck off and don’t come back.
Good, now do the Highlands.
So basically, he’s been oblivious all this time?
He got off lightly, I’m old enough to remember “Come home to a real fire … buy a cottage in Wales”.
This is south Pembrokeshire, little England beyond Wales. The issues here are no different to any other area which attracts second home owners whether the Lakes, Devon, Cornwall etc. It is not Wales specific.
Good. I don’t give a fuck about secondhome owners. Arguably worse than buy to let landlords. At least those leeches rent out their property.
Holiday homes are a joke.
Oh no, he has to pay extra tax on the house he doesn’t live in all the time, in a place where people want to live…
What a shaaaaaaaame.
He should try Cornwall next, they love second home owners there 😊
Da iawn!! Cymru am byth!!
This article is so biased, we hear from a landlord and an estate agent. No one who lives in the community or who’s looking to buy/rent in the area.
The second home owners are so much fun though, complaining about there not being a Waitrose for 100
Miles or other essentials 🤣
Good! Our county is not a playground where you can sweep up every available house for your own profit, destroy communities, push out locals… and expect to feel welcome. Ta raaa!
Fantastic news. Roll this out across all of Great Britain please!
Wales has every right to protect it’s culture and communities. We worked hard to reverse the damage of the last 800 years.
I’m a little shocked to hear they didnt pay council tax (which pays for social care alongside upkeep) and they ALSO get an incentive???
Second homes are not entirely evil, they have their place but they need to to compensate for the damage they can do to local communities.
“I feel so unwelcome” good piss off then! If you can’t rent out a second home for half a year then why do you even have it? Guaranteed the guy literally spends 2-3 weeks there at a time every other year maybe not even every year. That should go to someone who will actually bloody live in it properly.
So basically the policies are working.. good stuff, this is a English chap saying it. If you are retiring to live or just moving there to live then you should be able to if it’s just a source of income for you and you are causing housing problems for locals then tough shit.
2nd home owners gave destroyed the lake district they don’t use schools or local doctors busses or shops so they close making life difficult for locals and adding minimal back
Oh dear, how sad, never mind
Come round here moaning when the locals are struggling to afford their 1st home, I guarantee you will unlock a new level of unwelcomeness
Aerospace engineer? Barrister? People whose jobs give them the option owning more than one house. And the guy thinks the solution is to increase tourism? Nah. How about some sustainable local jobs? There’s a reason it’s not got affordable house building projects like at Derby.
But yeah, local authorities are going to have to do more than drive away absentee landlords. Though i bet their hands are tied
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As an englishman, fair play to Wales
I’m glad he got the message 😀
We’re not building the right sort of houses though or at the kinda price to fix the housing crisis. A local development to us in Devon starts at £350k; maybe if we have loads of kids they can shoulder the burden of the mortgage between them.
Great news! This is exactly the effect these policies are meant to have.
I find it so bizarre that second home owners will go on about how much they love the area they’ve bought a house in and yet be completely oblivious to the effect it has on house prices for young people and families who actually live in the area.
A second home should be a heavily taxed luxury. with restrictions on the maximum number that can exist in any area. Housing policy in the UK is such a shitshow.
Funny how a nation who’s population is technically below replacement is struggling so much with housing
Nice to see some good news.
The more hoops these house hoarders and Land Baron LARPers have to jump through the better.
I’m in Pembrokeshire trying to buy my first ever house. This is fantastic news. Fuck off and don’t come back.
Good, now do the Highlands.
So basically, he’s been oblivious all this time?
He got off lightly, I’m old enough to remember “Come home to a real fire … buy a cottage in Wales”.
This is south Pembrokeshire, little England beyond Wales. The issues here are no different to any other area which attracts second home owners whether the Lakes, Devon, Cornwall etc. It is not Wales specific.
Good. I don’t give a fuck about secondhome owners. Arguably worse than buy to let landlords. At least those leeches rent out their property.
Holiday homes are a joke.
Oh no, he has to pay extra tax on the house he doesn’t live in all the time, in a place where people want to live…
What a shaaaaaaaame.
He should try Cornwall next, they love second home owners there 😊
Da iawn!! Cymru am byth!!
This article is so biased, we hear from a landlord and an estate agent. No one who lives in the community or who’s looking to buy/rent in the area.
The second home owners are so much fun though, complaining about there not being a Waitrose for 100
Miles or other essentials 🤣
Good! Our county is not a playground where you can sweep up every available house for your own profit, destroy communities, push out locals… and expect to feel welcome. Ta raaa!
Fantastic news. Roll this out across all of Great Britain please!
Wales has every right to protect it’s culture and communities. We worked hard to reverse the damage of the last 800 years.
I’m a little shocked to hear they didnt pay council tax (which pays for social care alongside upkeep) and they ALSO get an incentive???
Second homes are not entirely evil, they have their place but they need to to compensate for the damage they can do to local communities.
“I feel so unwelcome” good piss off then! If you can’t rent out a second home for half a year then why do you even have it? Guaranteed the guy literally spends 2-3 weeks there at a time every other year maybe not even every year. That should go to someone who will actually bloody live in it properly.
So basically the policies are working.. good stuff, this is a English chap saying it. If you are retiring to live or just moving there to live then you should be able to if it’s just a source of income for you and you are causing housing problems for locals then tough shit.
2nd home owners gave destroyed the lake district they don’t use schools or local doctors busses or shops so they close making life difficult for locals and adding minimal back
Oh dear, how sad, never mind
Come round here moaning when the locals are struggling to afford their 1st home, I guarantee you will unlock a new level of unwelcomeness
Aerospace engineer? Barrister? People whose jobs give them the option owning more than one house. And the guy thinks the solution is to increase tourism? Nah. How about some sustainable local jobs? There’s a reason it’s not got affordable house building projects like at Derby.
But yeah, local authorities are going to have to do more than drive away absentee landlords. Though i bet their hands are tied