You’re right this won’t help - all it will do is push up the average house price by 25k. Freezing prices won’t do anything except drive shortage and lower quality property. Everything you mentioned will work once until people realize they can take advantage of it. We’ve seen it before - price freezes don’t help.
It is well known what we need to do.
make property a bad investment. Heavily tax vacant properties and ownership of multiple, improve renters rights, increase interest rates for investment purchases. The goal is to drive down Qd quickly, reducing the value of other owned properties.
significantly drive up quality housing stock - Increase of Qs. Tax breaks for new builds, government rent to own, density and infrastructure increases. No tax on new builds owned for 10 years. Longer plan that solves long term.
You’re right, freezing won’t stop it, because it’s still a stable place to keep your money. What needs to happen once frozen is that prices need to be continually dropped over a long period.
Obviously, more housing is key, and helps push current owners towards selling sooner rather than later. The problem with housing stock, which we’ve seen in the UK and Ireland, is that the quality of “affordable” housing stock is often hilariously bad. Corners are cut, homes are too hot/cold to be considered safe, and issues like cladding that breaks the law is pushed back to the owner to fix instead of those that broke the law. That’s why it needs to be gradual and methodological.
You’re right this won’t help - all it will do is push up the average house price by 25k. Freezing prices won’t do anything except drive shortage and lower quality property. Everything you mentioned will work once until people realize they can take advantage of it. We’ve seen it before - price freezes don’t help.
It is well known what we need to do.
make property a bad investment. Heavily tax vacant properties and ownership of multiple, improve renters rights, increase interest rates for investment purchases. The goal is to drive down Qd quickly, reducing the value of other owned properties.
significantly drive up quality housing stock - Increase of Qs. Tax breaks for new builds, government rent to own, density and infrastructure increases. No tax on new builds owned for 10 years. Longer plan that solves long term.
Haha, I realised that I forgot the last point!
You’re right, freezing won’t stop it, because it’s still a stable place to keep your money. What needs to happen once frozen is that prices need to be continually dropped over a long period.
Obviously, more housing is key, and helps push current owners towards selling sooner rather than later. The problem with housing stock, which we’ve seen in the UK and Ireland, is that the quality of “affordable” housing stock is often hilariously bad. Corners are cut, homes are too hot/cold to be considered safe, and issues like cladding that breaks the law is pushed back to the owner to fix instead of those that broke the law. That’s why it needs to be gradual and methodological.