Second homes
In Sweden and Finland about  20% of houses in the late 1990s were second homes.  In Spain it was 16%, Italy and Greece both 14%.   in 2018-19 there were 772,000 households in England with second homes. In 2023  foreigners bought nearly 40% of houses for sale  in Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza.  A referendum on banning building new second homes in Switzerland was  passed, with the support of 50.6%.   In 2016, 83% of voters in St Ives agreed in a referendum that it should be a requirement for new homes to be occupied as the owner’s main residence.