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The Mule
Date: 2020-01-09 02:14 pm (UTC)Re: The Mule
Date: 2020-01-09 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-01-10 04:46 pm (UTC)I'm in favour of the new powers for councils to regulate short-term lets.
It's fundamentally democratic that those powers should exist and be exercised by the local authority.
Looking at Edinburgh specifically there is clearly a problem with short-term lets.
(It may be the case that this is actually in part linked to the changes in the tax rules on buy-to-let mortgage interest driving a short-term over supply as people shift out of buy-to-let in to Furnished Holiday Homes and then end up selling the property. That seems to be the take on the issue by a guy I know who knows the market well. He tells me that some short-term lets are going for less than £30 a night, which is unsustainable in the long term.)
But even if the question of over-supply, and loss of residential property solves itself there is still the issue of poorly managed property including noise, nuisance, safety and maintenance. Having a licence that you can lose will definately help with that. And in an environment where there might actually be an over-supplied market I'm quite happy to have bad owners driven out of the market by regulation.
I'll be interested to see how the Scottish Borders deal with holiday rentals for obvious reasons.
I'm expecting less of a drive to use the regulations to actively shape the market but access to housing in rural locations is an issue in some parts of the UK. Not sure about the Borders' coast.