It won’t help us outside of maybe the first week of implementation, and that’s being generous. By this time next week people will have gamed out a scheme to legally eat that money and expect all down payments to be n+25k.
The issue it’s addressing is that companies are buying up homes and renting them. This 1st time buyer grant would help individuals and not apply to corporations
Not even talking about corporations, just everyone with a house to sell. Their expectations are going to remain the same plus 25k with this. It will be like that 25k never existed as it passes from government to seller making no impact on actual costs to the buyer.
It won’t help us outside of maybe the first week of implementation, and that’s being generous. By this time next week people will have gamed out a scheme to legally eat that money and expect all down payments to be n+25k.
As Cory Doctorow puts it, you don’t deal with a bully by giving kids extra lunch money to compensate.
The issue it’s addressing is that companies are buying up homes and renting them. This 1st time buyer grant would help individuals and not apply to corporations
Not even talking about corporations, just everyone with a house to sell. Their expectations are going to remain the same plus 25k with this. It will be like that 25k never existed as it passes from government to seller making no impact on actual costs to the buyer.
Phrased another way, this is a $25k tax on corporate buyers and people buying their next home.
I’m perfectly ok with the first, not as much the second.