[zwirbl]

While this is an edge case for most people, you are allowed to keep it, rent it out, whatever. The regulation doesn't work that well, as there are some loopholes and there are still significant numbers of mostly uninhabited second homes.

A lot of places in the Tirol have issues with affordable housing for workers while at the same time new hotels are being built and existing hotels expanded, increasing the demand for affordable housing by increasing the demand for workers.

There is also a small workforce crisis going on since covid, as a lot of people lost their jobs in the pandemic (hotels and restaurants closed) when lots of workers left the sector and many of the seasonal workers are not returning.

[sideshowb]

Not that much of an edge case. Something like 30 to 50 percent of landlords in the UK are "accidental landlords" iirc