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Such an obvious thing too. Personally I'd rather they just ban ownership beyond a primary home until the crisis is over. But I get from a political point of view that it would be less doable.
Or impose a minimum radius around a property where you can't buy a second one and then a minimum around both where you can't have a third one and so on. Want to have a house in the city and a cottage >100km away in a straight line? Go ahead. Want to own a bunch of house and use them as short term rental units? Better be ready to waste your time traveling all over the country buddy!
But this is what's causing the problems. People are buying second houses in holiday destinations, then either leaving them empty for most of the year, or renting them out for things like Airbnb. House prices are going up, and locals can't afford to buy. Off season, the local businesses don't have enough custom to sustain themselves, and end up going under.
Most people who do that do it close enough to home to take care of it themselves though
The whole point of holiday homes is that they're not near the main home, otherwise it defeats the object.
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.
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.
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.
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.