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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by Cerium on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @12:18PM (#27449702)
Not necessarily - for example in China foreigners are limited to owning one house. That limits speculation but does not provide hindrance for someone honestly trying to live.
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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by whoisburbansky on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @01:36PM (#27450730)
What’s the “not necessarily” in response to here?
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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by Cerium on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:38PM (#27452901)
That policies restricting who can buy homes will hurt immigrants.
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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by whoisburbansky on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:39PM (#27452914)
In general, of course not, but GP originally proposed specifically forbidding non-permanent residents from buying houses. How is that not hurting immigrants?
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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by Cerium on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:41PM (#27452952)
The policy does not have to be binary - you can forbid non-permanent residents from buying more than one home instead.
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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by whoisburbansky on Thursday June 10, 2021 @02:11AM (#27457378)
Agreed that the policy doesn't have to be binary, but GP's original phrasing was literally "ban non-permanent residents from buying property," which is what I was responding to.
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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by throw737858 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @12:27PM (#27449836)
In China nobody owns a house, it is just leased from government for 70 years.
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