Under second homes:

Some may be used as Airbnb type short lets, although many of these now pay business rates and do not appear on the Council Taxbase at all. As at October 2025, there were over 268,000 of these so-called ‘second homes’.

Am I understanding that right as a minimum of 268k in this category? As ther rest are in Holiday Let's and

NONE of these are included in our total vacancy figure of 1,022,433 for 2025.

That's a good source, thank you for that. I just used the top one of my search.

I don't consider a home that is used Mon to Fri to be unoccupied.

That's nice. I asked you why you chose to cherry pick the article and take partial quotes. Could you answer that please? Do you consider a house that's abandoned as unoccupied? Stop cherry picking please.

Here's what you're doing, knowingly or not: Reverse Gish gallop

We need to build houses. It's the best way to get broad based growth. Lots of trades.

Are you under the impression that I'm against building houses?

Here's me:

Sure build more homes, also fill the ones we have.

We agree: build more homes. Do we agree to fill the ones we have?

Had you read the article though:

Even if the Government meets its target of 1.5 million homes over the course of the parliament, analysis from the Office for Budget Responsibility estimates that under current government policy, increasing rents will cancel out all average wage growth until at least the end of the decade — meaning no improvement in affordability.