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petre 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas"...

> e.g. by introducing taxes for empty properties

So the speculators set up a company, buy the property and list it on AirBnB at several times the market price. Now it's not an empty property, it's a business. Business is slow so they only have to bother with guests during spikes in demend.

tieandjeans 7 months ago [–]

To get around this, we'll establish complex municipal regulations around AirBnB, with steeply escalating punitive fines.

https://airbtics.com/airbnb-regulation-in-barcelona/

kjkjadksj 7 months ago | [–]

And then you list it illegally anyhow.

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