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I suppose that we could ban buy to let mortgages. That would stop a lot of landlords being able to buy houses to rent out.
Of course, that would stop a lot of property sales, for lack of buyers. That would mean that many owners would become accidental landlords.
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Increasing the housing supply is the best way to fix this imo. We're not building enough homes and all Government policy thus far seems to be geared towards maintaining the market as it is but using Government money to get more people onto the flyaway train. Either though help to buy, the new homes discount or whatever else they're cooking up.
All of them are ultimately the Government subsiding the rise in house prices by ensuring the demand is there. If they increased house building and got rid of the subsides then the housing benefit may be reduced. However that would be either because house prices have stopped increasing or even fallen.