PHOTO: BUSINESSDESK Pattrick Smellie says the cost of warming rental properties does not justify landlords’ threats of a rent increases.
OPINION: Residential landlords who grizzle loudly about both the impact of a capital gains tax and the new minimum warmth and health standards for rental properties should be very careful what they wish for.
Both, some of their lobbyists unwisely argue, will increase rents.
To the public, this sounds like a threat.
And in the case of the warmth standards, it’s not only a greedy, heartless and socially irresponsible threat, but it doesn’t stand up to analysis.
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