What disincentives could discourage people from buying second homes?

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What disincentives would work to stop people buying second homes?

Inspired by a different thread. It seems a number of people share my abhorrent of second homes.

I have seen the place I grew up turned into a ghost village by selfish idiots buying second homes. Now there is no local shop, no local school, no doctors surgery, no pub, no busses nothing. There were not enough people using them consistently for them to make money.

So what would make people stop killing local communities. Financial penalties I guess but how high? Wales has introduced a 100% local tax increase on second homes but it doesn't seem to be enough.

Exactly what the pp was saying and you said that everyone in the chain would have to agree.

They don't. It's none of their business.

How do you police that?

Sorry, am I misunderstanding? You expect people to rent out their own home as a holiday rental while they are using it as their home?

London has limits on AirBnBs (as do many cities around the world) but people get round them: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg96rz9061o

I'm not sure what the answer is.

I take it you holiday abroad?

No I mean you might go on holiday somewhere yourself and rent out your home during that time.

Why ?

This is bonkers, maybe the most bonkers thing I have read this week!

What a ridiculous idea!
It is OK if you were going on a very long holiday but who wants to pack everything away before they go on holiday and who wants their stuff used by people who won’t be careful. Nobody would want to stay in my home it is full of my crap.

If the government had a 6 month capital gains tax break you may see a lot of second homes come on the market.

Because Airbnbs etc are needed for people to holiday. Where I holiday in the UK there are no hotels for miles.

No idea ? The solicitor would check what property you already own before you buy another one?

The extra SDLT, CT, CGT etc that people pay for second homes could be spent directly on affordable housing for people born or working in the area (as in the job is based there, not subsidised housing for digital nomads / remote / WFH incomers)

It isn’t only second homes that dry a village up. Where my parents live the jobs dried up, the traditional jobs became obsolete, manufacturing moved elsewhere/ China, the locals objected to every new development that would have brought employment, the harbour silted up etc. All the younger people moved away for work and other opportunities. And it is now full of second / holiday homes.

But that happened after the tiny school closed and after the bank (open 2 mornings a week) closed, the grocery shops reduced from 2 to 1 because of Internet shopping and deliveries , ditto the butcher.

Cost cutting, not 2nd homes, took the GP surgery to the market town 4 miles away.

Holidaymakers could help by using local shops rather than ramming the XC90 full from their home Waitrose or causing gridlock of Tesco delivery vans.

If the Air bnbs closed down, maybe there would be. We used to go on holiday before Airbnb existed.

Well maybe there would be more hotels / holiday parks / holiday rentals run as a business if there were less airbnb? I do see your point but people went on holiday in the days before airbnb.

Yeah, I don't think so! Air B&B's are pretty much empty. I'd not rent out my home for 2 weeks with all my things in it. It's not safe.

Ha just said the same

Cottages/homes to let have been going for years. I was using Airbnb as a general term.

You could argue there was less choice.

Since you mentioned the pervious thread and have "helpfully" decided to start this one so the op can get torn apart even further in a more circuitous way, not all second home properties are in communities or towns or even villages. Some are standalone properties which are no good to people with children or the elderly who need access to services close by or people with a commute.

Please desist from the gross generalisations and sweeping statements, not to mention judgements based on assumptions with zero basis that the previous posts op had to contend with.

Of course but say you went off traveling for three months you might consider it. The option could be there for people if they wanted

As I holiday in a National Park where planning permission is difficult and would certainly not be given for a hotel your idea is a non starter.

You can't just let your own home out for 2 weeks. What about insurance and contracts?

But that’s the outcome you’re advocating for. If second homes are a no go. Then prices remain depressed. Although to be honest I don’t beleive that’s the case. And I don’t for a moment beleive that only second homes owners bid for all these houses, enough to decimate a community. More likely there was not enough job opportunities so people left.

House swapping has been a thing for forever. My friend did it every year about 10 years ago for a week or sometimes two. Families from different areas or different countries simply swapped homes and both got a holiday with only travel costs.