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Shafted

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  • 16 August 2025
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A curious war is a foot, one fought not with bullets, but with lobbying dollars and legislative ink. It’s a conflict being waged against individuals who have made one of the oldest and most trusted investments in the world: property. Once a symbol of financial stability and a pillar of the community, having more than one property now somehow casts you as a destroyer of the social fabric. And at the heart of this travesty is the platform economy, which has made a time-honored practice a newly visible target.

The news out of Spain is the latest salvo—60,000 apartments pulled from the rental market in a single sweep. The justification? Addressing housing concerns. The reality? A time-honored practice is being demonized because the digital platform that aggregates it has become a convenient, visible target. This is a global travesty, and the hypocrisy is staggering. Here in Las Vegas, a city built on hospitality, short-term rentals under 30 days are effectively illegal. This isn’t due to some noble pursuit of affordable housing; it’s the result of immense lobbying by the casino companies to crush legitimate competition. Talk about anti-trust. An entire market for families and groups, who have a real need for multi-room units, is being strangled to protect the monopoly of large hotel operators. It’s one thing if the hotel stock could reasonably cater to this demand, but globally, this is rarely the case, and where it is, it’s often outrageously expensive.

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The practice of holiday rental is as old as the hills. My childhood holidays were spent in them. But now, if you’ve invested in more than one property, you’re somehow destroying the fabric of society. The gig economy, through its shiny aggregation platforms, has unwittingly given ammunition to those who would see this entire market disappear. The legitimate property owners who serve a genuine demand are being disenfranchised, told they are not welcome and can stay at home.

The deliberation here seems to be ill-considered at best. What’s the end game? To ban anyone who presents short-term accommodation digitally? A balance is desperately needed, one that respects a property owner’s right to rent their asset without allowing powerful corporate interests to weaponize regulation against them.

Life is so tech. But sometimes, the biggest battles are fought over the most traditional of assets.

Mark Fancourt

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