Petition · past parliament

Introduce restrictions on foreign purchases of UK homes.

Closed 396 signatures

What the petition asks

We call on the UK Government to follow Australia, Denmark, Singapore, Switzerland and many other countries by introducing restrictions on foreign purchases of UK homes.

Despite what the property lobby claim, increasing the supply of houses will not reduce property prices in the SE. Extra supply simply increases the crisis by adding a population crisis on top of a housing crisis. The single biggest factor in the rise of house prices to their current incredible levels is the growth of a vast foreign buyer segment which has fatally distorted the market in the SE.

See this recent report on the issue by Civitas.
http://www.civitas.org.uk/press/PRshelter.html

Timeline

19 Oct 2015 Petition opened for signatures
19 Apr 2016 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 396
Status Closed
Opened 19 Oct 2015
Closed 19 Apr 2016

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.