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  1. Herr Tubthumper

    [Brighton] Council imposing double council tax on second homes in Brighton & Hove.

    Or encouraging people to stay/move up north? It’s a serious point as many people gravitate to London and the south.
  2. Herr Tubthumper

    [Brighton] Council imposing double council tax on second homes in Brighton & Hove.

    The UK used to be really good at social housing with many enlightened entrepreneurs like Guiness, Roundtree and Peabody building really desirable properties. Entrepreneurs do not seem to so enlightened these days.
  3. Herr Tubthumper

    [Brighton] Council imposing double council tax on second homes in Brighton & Hove.

    “The value is based on the price the property would have sold for on the open market on 1 April 1991 in England and 1 April 2003 in Wales.” I presume this comes from an average of sales from the land registry. And even then it is not used to obtain the value but the relative price differential...
  4. Herr Tubthumper

    [Brighton] Council imposing double council tax on second homes in Brighton & Hove.

    The article I posted said Berlin has set up a 30 strong team to find rogue operators. If you have the staff it must be easy to find unlicensed holiday lets due to the very public nature of the business? For example there was a suspicion of someone in our old apartment block operating an AirBnB...
  5. Herr Tubthumper

    [Brighton] Council imposing double council tax on second homes in Brighton & Hove.

    This is how it’s enforced here: You first need to register. “Under the law, anyone renting out an unregistered holiday flat could be fined up to € 100,000. Platforms like Airbnb and Wimdu are required to hand over data to the authorities, and the city administration has hired some 30 new...
  6. Herr Tubthumper

    [Brighton] Council imposing double council tax on second homes in Brighton & Hove.

    Are there any restrictions on AirBnB’s in Brighton?
  7. Herr Tubthumper

    [Brighton] Council imposing double council tax on second homes in Brighton & Hove.

    I’d also build a lot of social housing. This would be ideal for the national savings scheme you mention.
  8. Herr Tubthumper

    [Brighton] Council imposing double council tax on second homes in Brighton & Hove.

    The OP seems to have misunderstood this new ruling.
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