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Wales is charging a 150% tax on second homes and it's working. (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 9 months ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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To try to tackle this, the Welsh Labour government, alongside Plaid Cymru, introduced measures to curb second-home ownership. This included giving councils the ability to push council tax on second homes to 300% the usual rate. They also closed a loophole whereby second-home owners could register as a business in order to pay the much lower business rates.

Gwynedd council used these powers to hike council tax to 150% in April 2023. By the end of 2024, house prices had fallen by 12.4% as second-home owners tried to sell up. In Pembrokeshire, house prices fell by 8.9% after the council increased the council tax to 200% on second homes (though this was reduced to 150% recently).

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Most people who do that do it close enough to home to take care of it themselves though

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Where are you getting that opinion? Is that backed by data or literally anything that would give weight to what you're saying?

Otherwise you're just defending landlords. Cause that sounds so wrong it's unbelievable someone would just assert that.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Just my experience having had a cottage far away from everything with other cottages around, the few of them available for short term rental were either unavailable most of the time as the owners didn't want to have to travel hours just to clean up every weekend and those that were available at all times were owned by people who also lived around there full time.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The whole point of holiday homes is that they're not near the main home, otherwise it defeats the object.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking about the ones who rent them, not people who have a cottage somewhere out in the boonies. You don't want to have to travel hours every weekend just to clean up after your client.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

They don't travel to clean up, they hire a cleaning company for a fraction of what they charged the guests. No-one's travelling half way across the country every week to change the sheets and empty the bins.