• SeattleRain@lemmy.worldOPM
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      4 months ago

      What difference does it make. If no one’s in it, it’s not making money, yet real estate is still priced like every SFH can get 3k in rent.

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        4 months ago

        That’s what occupancy taxes are for. If it is taxed for every month that it’s empty, it’ll get sold or rented.

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          4 months ago

          Victoria has introduced a tax on vacant homes, but they’re finding it hard to enforce in practice (there’s really only a bunch of indirect indicators that you can rely on, stuff like census date, electricity use, etc), and it turns out that the bastards that would just leave a house empty have no issue with not declaring this.