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by pineaux 1749 days ago
No it does not. You can't even buy a house if you are a Dene that does not live/work in that city. You can buy a house and live there. You are free to do so, but you are not allowed to buy a house to rent it out. It is typical European market regulation. Amsterdam is also setting up this legislation to do this.
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> You can't even buy a house if you are a Dene that does not live/work in that city. You can buy a house and live there. You are free to do so, but you are not allowed to buy a house to rent it out.

It seems that you're saying the restriction is tied to residency and not citizenship, which implies that non-citizens can purchase property as they don't rent it out (even if they don't actually live in it?).

This may not prevent the problems that come from some foreign property investment that is driven by seeking to protect wealth from government seizure rather than to produce passive income.

What about corporations? Can they, for example, purchase property in order to give employees rent-free housing?