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Second homes

August 2024

  • A woman blocking her ears with her fingers

    For crying out loud, turn down the volume

    Letters: Readers share their experiences of noisy fellow travellers and neighbours

April 2024

  • Catherine Bennett

    Skiing holidays, school fees, second homes… the rich are truly deserving of our pity

    Catherine Bennett
  • Scarborough, North Yorkshire

    Britain’s staycation boom may be over as bookings dry up

March 2024

  • A sign saying 'No more second homes' in St Agnes, Cornwall.

    ‘This hits the wrong people’: holiday let owners say Hunt’s scrapping of tax relief won’t affect rich

    Wealthy second home owners who can afford to allow them to sit empty will carry on, say those with small holiday lettings
  • A view across the harbour of Ilfracombe in north Devon, where house prices have risen 52% since 2021.

    How council taxes and the budget are pushing owners to de-list second homes in England and Wales

    Wales led the way in tackling the problem of empty properties and priced-out locals – and now Jeremy Hunt has weighed in
  • Boatyard owners Paul and Allen Toms in Polruan harbour.

    ‘We’re on a cliff edge’: Cornish village where 52% of houses are not first homes

    Scrapping furnished holiday lets regime will only ‘tinker’ with rentals problem, say people in Polruan

July 2023

  • St Ives

    St Ives residents raise £1m to save community hospital closed by NHS

  • An aerial view of the Nice seafront, with boats docked in the harbour

    Post-Brexit fall in English ownership of European second homes, figures show

June 2023

  • The Cape Mykonos

    Celebrity hairdresser puts Mykonos villa up for sale for €50m

    Charles Worthington, who has styled Sarah Jessica Parker and others, could get record sum for Greek island home
  • Eduardo González de Molina

    Spain’s snap election could kill its housing revolution before it even gets started

    Eduardo González de Molina
    The country’s new housing law could change so much, says Eduardo González de Molina, a policy adviser at Barcelona city council
  • Houses on the waterfront in South Lakeland, Cumbria

    Holiday lets nearly negate supply of new homes in tourist areas, study shows

    Campaigners say second homes and holiday lets are taking homes away from residents in hotspots such as Devon and Cumbria

April 2023

  • Simon Jenkins

    Michael Gove’s housing reforms are the only ray of light in this doomed government

    Simon Jenkins
  • An estate agent in Porthmadog, Wales

    Tougher second homes regulations come into force in Wales

January 2023

  • The harbour at Mevagissey, Cornwall

    Second-home owners are decimating Cornish villages – that’s Bait’s message

    Letters: Jane Sutherland on Mark Jenkin’s film and local people being priced out of the housing market in Cornwall

December 2022

  • Properties on South Snowdon Wharf in Porthmadog

    Gwynedd raises council tax premium on second homes to 150%

    Councillors to use extra £3m expected to be raised by the move to tackle area’s ‘immoral’ homelessness crisis

November 2022

  • South Snowdon Wharf in Porthmadog

    ‘People are living in vans’: Porthmadog considers vexed issue of second homes

    As final vote on raising council tax to tackle homelessness looms, some worry tourism will be affected if people sell up
  • A house for sale overlooking the beach at Morfa Nefyn, Gwynedd.

    Second-home owners in Gwynedd face 150% council tax premium

    ‘Immoral’ that one in 10 properties in area is a second home while homelessness has increased by 47%, say councillors

    • Council tax premium won’t tackle the blight of holiday lets

    • North Yorkshire to tackle rise in second homes with council tax premium

    • Second homes and Brexit pushing Welsh language to ‘tipping point’

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