What is timeshare activity like in Britain? A house unused 11 months a year isn’t reaping any benefit to the owner either during those 11 months. It would seem that rentals to vacation tenants, students, etc. could be more profitable.
I can’t speak to that. I’ve visited a few communities that we’re having problems with exploding numbers of holiday homes back in the 90’s and it seemed that time sharing was not going on. I tried to rent a home to prolong my visit to the Isle of Wight and the holiday home owners uniformly acted as if I were gibbering at them in a diaper. They couldn’t understand why I thought they would trust a stranger in their homes. That combined with the fact that they don’t take a vacation there so much as use it on random weekends gives me the impression that it’s a tiny market.
Dawn French did a comedy set in Cornwall that had a running theme of feuds between holiday home owners and locals. That was back in 95 or so. These aren’t new problems. The longer problems go on without a solution the better a drastic solution like banning holiday homes seems.