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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real est... by jjav on Saturday August 13, 2022 @03:55PM (#32453203)
> If you increase the tax by 4x, the most likely result is the market value will drop from $1 million to something like $250k-500k.

Not really. This assumes it must remain a rental property.

What will happen is that this $1M property which was previously a rental now becomes a ~$1M property which is owner-occupied. The owner isn't going to take a 500K-750K loss just to keep it a rental.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real est... by mrep on Sunday August 14, 2022 @07:51AM (#32458496)
So completely destroy the rental market? Do you really want a city where the only way you can move there is to full on buy a housing unit?