The biggest thing i'd do to fuck over your rental portfolio, Joshu, would be to end the practice of paying housing benefit to people in private rented accomodation

so cut social housing supply?

Yes that's what he is saying

couldn't you just juggle your place of residence around multiple homes @Nathan James 123 to avoid this tax?

No, "private rented accodomation" isn't "social housing" supply

Or force councils to pay over the odds

For peoples private houses

To buy them

Build them

This is a tax that the building owner would pay @killerqwerty

Because if I knew there was a huge council demand

Phase it out over time

Damn right I'm holding out for big money

It's to prevent people sitting on empty homes for stupid amounts of time

they already have a lot of social housing tbh

@Nathan James 123 if it's unoccupied, so if I move into it, it's no longer unoccupied.

Problem solved

Someone is using that house

every single development that has occured in the UK over the last decade... 25% of them HAVE to be social housing

Tax payers shouldn't be paying for Rent Seekers investment returns

Which is what we want

Rather than it remaining empty for 10 years

and if I do that with 2 or 3 houses, what is the difference?

to just having 1 or 2 empty houses?

Social Housing needs to be at a price point that is affordable in real-life circumstances

You would be paying the tax, per house.

If you own 6 which are un-used. You pay the tax

It should be the natural competitor to the private rental market

Which increases, the longer it remains empty

its already at something like 25% discount for key workers

"the longer it remains empty" that's the problem, because I'm moving in and out of them an a weakly basis.

Getting all command economy up in here

so it will never trigger

That doesn't matter

The home is being used

Which is the aim of the policy

It's to force people to rent out, or sell their empty home

Such an easy policy to loophole around

Typically gov beaurocractic pointlessness

notice how the warnings of oversupply in london will cause price drops in the city back in 2015 ... and now the london prices are steady/dropping ... theyre blaming brexit 😛

no it's not though, I just list my place of residence as that house for a week, it's still not being used