Until recently, Bratislava officials assumed there were 51,000 empty apartments in the city held by investors. To test the theory, however, the city decided to work with power companies to find out how many apartments were using no electricity or barely any at all. It turns out, there are at most 18,000 empty units in the city, a mere one-third of what had been anticipated. That’s valuable information for a city to have at a time when rising housing prices are becoming unaffordable. In the case of Bratislava, there had been calls to implement a tax . . .
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