Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
It's a move in the right direction, coupled with the removal of the favourable holiday let tax treatment might curtail antisocial Airbnb-ists. I don't have a problem with the private residential rental market: just the locking up of rentable property in the occasional holiday let market. Fine it we had surplus residential property stock to use up, but we don't.
I have heard it suggested - in a non vested interest/political way - that there are enough empty properties in the UK to solve the housing crisis ‘at a stroke’. Don’t know enough to know if that’s true or not. Thoughts?