With so many MPs being landlords themselves, or friends/family to landlords, nothing is going to change any time soon, not unless we make it so that only a set number of holiday lets/AirBnBs can be in a certain area or that they are taxed to hell. As long as there is no regulation, landlords will continue to go for the easy money.
Seeing as the banks are busy gazumping all the home buyers and are some of the biggest multiple homeowners it will never happen.
Landlords are in the business of making money, not providing homes or socal housing. Airbnb and holiday lets are far more lucrative than regular tenants. Houses are just an investment to them. It’s just business.
It’s basic economics, really. Why charge £700 for monthly rent when you could charge £50 per night for thousands? You have fewer responsibility to a long-term tenant, too, and risks of any legal quarrels. This doesn’t mean it’s right, the hospitality sector is invading an essential service of the public, housing, as Uber did to professional drivers. We have failed to prepare our infrastructure, though, for a variety of digital services affecting them – not to mention allowing American commercial domination of the internet landscape to a point local industry is undermined…
Landlordism is a scourge on this country that needs to be heavily cracked down on. Someone has to lose out and it needs to be them.
Their property, their call.
>One landlord who got a court order to evict a tenant who did not pay rent for 14 months told the Guardian she would eventually turn her other long-term lets into Airbnbs.
How is that even possible to stay in a house for over a year without paying anything?
no fault evictions are a problem, but it doesn’t really matter that much what the landlord’s reason for doing it is. The problem is that a person who paid their rent can be kicked out at short notice.
Not surprising. Being a landlord is hardly worth it these days
I don’t know about other people but I really don’t think the convenience of being able to stay in an Airbnb once or twice a year was worth the damage it has wrought on the housing market globally…
Ban AirBNB and similar services. Ban second homes until every last person in this country is housed. Laws against leaving houses empty. Nationwide mandatory rent caps.
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With so many MPs being landlords themselves, or friends/family to landlords, nothing is going to change any time soon, not unless we make it so that only a set number of holiday lets/AirBnBs can be in a certain area or that they are taxed to hell. As long as there is no regulation, landlords will continue to go for the easy money.
Seeing as the banks are busy gazumping all the home buyers and are some of the biggest multiple homeowners it will never happen.
Landlords are in the business of making money, not providing homes or socal housing. Airbnb and holiday lets are far more lucrative than regular tenants. Houses are just an investment to them. It’s just business.
It’s basic economics, really. Why charge £700 for monthly rent when you could charge £50 per night for thousands? You have fewer responsibility to a long-term tenant, too, and risks of any legal quarrels. This doesn’t mean it’s right, the hospitality sector is invading an essential service of the public, housing, as Uber did to professional drivers. We have failed to prepare our infrastructure, though, for a variety of digital services affecting them – not to mention allowing American commercial domination of the internet landscape to a point local industry is undermined…
Landlordism is a scourge on this country that needs to be heavily cracked down on. Someone has to lose out and it needs to be them.
Their property, their call.
>One landlord who got a court order to evict a tenant who did not pay rent for 14 months told the Guardian she would eventually turn her other long-term lets into Airbnbs.
How is that even possible to stay in a house for over a year without paying anything?
no fault evictions are a problem, but it doesn’t really matter that much what the landlord’s reason for doing it is. The problem is that a person who paid their rent can be kicked out at short notice.
Not surprising. Being a landlord is hardly worth it these days
I don’t know about other people but I really don’t think the convenience of being able to stay in an Airbnb once or twice a year was worth the damage it has wrought on the housing market globally…
Ban AirBNB and similar services. Ban second homes until every last person in this country is housed. Laws against leaving houses empty. Nationwide mandatory rent caps.
Sorted. But it will never happen…