Here in Belgium taxes on the purchase of a second (or third, or fourth, …) home are nearly nonexistent but taxes on the first home are 20%+
I hate being ruled by wannabe oligarchs. I say wannabe because they would wish they could run amok here like in the good ol US of A, but it isn’y for a lack of trying.
Don’t. You don’t know where they’ve been (Epstein island? 🤮).
Compost them instead!