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Deborah Schembri

PL candidate · Partit Laburista

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"Housing measures may help calm property prices because developers near the eligibility ceiling could lower prices to make buyers eligible."
Unlikely 29 Apr 2026 ›
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Housing measures may help calm property prices because developers near the eligibility ceiling could lower prices to make buyers eligible.

Theoretically possible, empirically unlikely. The 'bunching at thresholds' effect Abela describes is real and recognised in tax-policy economics — but it rarely dominates the broader inflationary pressure of expanding the buyer pool. Empirical evidence from comparable EU and global housing-subsidy schemes (UK Help to Buy, Australian first-home grants, US tax credits) consistently shows demand-side housing subsidies push prices up by 50-100% of subsidy value within 1-3 years. In Malta specifically, structurally inelastic short-run housing supply (planning delays, construction timelines, foreign-purchaser demand in central districts) makes prices more responsive to demand shocks, not less.

Robert Abela · 29 Apr 2026 ›
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"Housing measures may help calm property prices because developers near the eligibility ceiling could lower prices to make buyers eligible."
Robert Abela 29 Apr 2026
Unlikely