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Can You Explain Canada’s New Proposal to Tax Non-Resident Homeowners? If approved, residential property owners who aren’t Canadian citizens and live in other countries would have to pay a 1% tax By V.L. Hendrickson  |  Save Danielle Donders / Getty Images Every week, Mansion Global poses a tax question to real estate tax attorneys. Here is this week’s question. Q. Can you explain the proposal to tax vacant residential property owned by non-resident, non-Canadian owners being considered in Canada? A. The government of Canada released its Budget 2021 last w...

Readers' letters There are empty three- and four-bedroom flats near Pentonville Prison - Credit: PA Wire/PA Images Help end empty homes so we can support homeless Morag Gillie, co-chair, Islington Homes for All, writes: I am writing as co-chair of Islington Homes for All at the start of our campaign against empty homes. In 2019 the Islington Gazette covered the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) snub to Islington Council’s attempts to lease 29 three- and four-bedroom flats near Pentonville Prison to accommodate homeless families. The MoJ ruled out selling its Roman Way units, which have been empty f...

A man walks past an empty shop in Burslem. Office blocks and shops left empty by the pandemic could soon see cities transformed into ghettos of unaffordable luxury homes thanks to a government-backed loophole, according to housing experts. Housing secretary Robert Jenrick in March laid out an extension to existing permitted development (PD) rights that will allow the conversion of empty retail units into “much needed” homes without the need for planning permission. Under the planning system, any development of more than 10 homes has to include a percentage (up to 50%) of “affordable” ...

Jools Ramsey, chief executive officer at Ipswich Housing Action Group, said the rise in the number of empty homes was "staggering", but was unclear over what is expected of local authorities to address this. "Lack of safe and affordable long-term housing for people living with the experience of homelessness has been an issue for some years, and the answer is surely for a national commitment to build suitable accommodation which is ring-fenced for emergency accommodation, and longer-term supported accommodation for those that need it. "There is also a place for guaranteed rent deposit schem...

Jools Ramsey, chief executive officer at Ipswich Housing Action Group, said the rise in the number of empty homes was "staggering", but was unclear over what is expected of local authorities to address this. "Lack of safe and affordable long-term housing for people living with the experience of homelessness has been an issue for some years, and the answer is surely for a national commitment to build suitable accommodation which is ring-fenced for emergency accommodation, and longer-term supported accommodation for those that need it. "There is also a place for guaranteed rent deposit schem...