second homes
30 Aug 2022
Second home owners in Cornwall urged to donate the £5.4m in energy rebates they will receive
Cornwall Live has reported that second home owners in Cornwall are due to receive a staggering £5.4million in energy rebates The rebates come as every home in the UK will...
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27 Jun 2022
Holiday homes are ‘hollowing out’ coastal areas, says MP
The Guardian reports Labour MP Luke Pollard says Covid-19 has ‘turbo-charged’ housing crisis in rural and coastal towns Coastal communities are being “hollowed out irretrievably” by a surge in holiday...
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28 Feb 2022
Soaring rural rent prices force locals into living in a Airbnb
The BBC reports how a Cornish resident has been forced into living in an Airbnb due to soaring private rent prices As a Cornish painter and decorator, Heath Robinson spends...
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17 Jan 2022
Holiday lets ‘are strangling rural communities’ in Cornwall
Farmers Weekly and Cornwall Live report on new data revealing how rural families are being deprived of housing by a 1,000% surge in the number of short-term lets and holiday...
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10 Jan 2022
The dark side of country living
The Telegraph reports on the division between more deprived rural areas of the country like Cornwall, where it sets out the “contrast between the luxury hotels and the many on...
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09 Aug 2021
The pandemic property boom is pricing locals out of the British countryside
An article in the Guardian sets out that rural areas are reportedly suffering from an undersupply of affordable housing due to the rise of second home ownership The sudden rise...
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28 Jun 2021
Housing inequalities are growing while more properties are converted to holiday use
The Guardian has recorded their views on second homes and urge main homes to be put first An editorial piece in the newspaper, available at this link, sets out some...
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01 Jun 2021
Housing market: Are second home owners really pricing locals out?
The BBC reports that concerns regarding second homes in rural areas is growing, with the pandemic increasing tensions The report notes that second home owners have “long stood accused of...
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05 Oct 2020
Short-term renting and second homes blighting rural areas
The Guardian has reported that city dwellers seeking an escape to the country or a second home in rural areas are ‘warping’ regional economies Since the end of lockdown house...
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14 Apr 2020
Rural counties see a spike in covid-19 cases amid fury over ‘Coronavirus holidays’
The Conversation, an online publication that publishes academic articles, published data from genetics professor Tim Spector’s COVID-19 symptom tracker app which suggests that people leaving the city for the countryside...
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