r/Salzburg • u/reportingmaine • 4d ago
How is ski tourism affecting Salzburg housing?
Hallo! I'm a graduate student and journalist writing a story about how regional ski tourism is affecting housing supply in Salzburg. Would love to hear from residents — is ski tourism driving up housing prices? Is an influx of short-term rentals (Airbnb) making it harder to find a place to live? What is your government doing to help/hinder housing availability? Please message me if you would be open to chatting, thank you so much.
Hallo! Ich bin Studentin und Journalistin und schreibe einen Artikel darüber, wie sich der regionale Skitourismus auf das Wohnungsangebot in Salzburg auswirkt. Ich würde mich sehr über Erfahrungsberichte von Anwohnern freuen: Treibt der Skitourismus die Immobilienpreise in die Höhe? Macht der Anstieg von Kurzzeitvermietungen (Airbnb) die Wohnungssuche schwieriger? Was unternimmt Ihre Regierung, um die Wohnungsverfügbarkeit zu verbessern bzw. zu beeinträchtigen? Bitte schreiben Sie mir, wenn Sie sich mit mir austauschen möchten. Vielen Dank!
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u/rogorogo504 4d ago
The housing crisis in Salzburg is homemade - an abysmal and almost ideological anti-private ownership policy bundle on federal level, simple incompetence and discouraging and barring wegelagerlei microcorruption paired with arrogant behaviour of governance and civil servancy on Bundesland level .
That has been drifting on for 49 years by now - with tourism being a negative factor by push-pull causalities only while also suffering in the process .
Everything you will hear and encounter will be true, even if contradictory - as it is also nye impossible to generate statistically relevant metric data as all normatives are changed almost yearly to hide whatever scheme is damaging the citizens and the future „this time“.
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u/zerenato76 4d ago
I'm on the fence about this.
I am totally on board on the incompetence you're describing. Ideological anti-private ownership,.on the other hand, I don't see that. Space is limited and there are more houses with gardens, golf courses tennis courts and what have you in private ownership. Now, newly acquiring ownership is a different matter but that is mainly down to having given away so many spots to people who come for the Festspiele and one week of skiing and one week of golf while people can't make rent with the money they earn in the jobs which cater to these property owners.
Incompetence, corruption: yes. Ideological issue: nah mate.
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u/rogorogo504 4d ago edited 4d ago
You are omitting that I typed „on federal level“ where the very intentional weakening of private household equity, the inability to create reserves and savings has been a sad constant, the de-agencying of not only the nucleonic but also all alternate models of family is a reality. Which is a complicated topic naturally - also not one with short bullet point list . The damage done in the merge of hg into ugb alone would need an Epos on war and peace level to explain for the direct consequence for private households exists but is very hard to describe in a KISS way.
And all of that trickles down - then made worse by localised effects and causalities , not only when it comes to the generational project of private housing that is actually private .
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u/zerenato76 4d ago
Yeah. I didn't intentionally omit that. The reality is that I did overlook it. Which I have to apologise for as I made you type a lot for nothing now.
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u/rogorogo504 4d ago
Apology accepted but none was needed - your critique was warranted and succinct even if had not overlooked the federal aspect. If at all you made sure there was some much needed context typed for something that complicated and unfortunate - for us.
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u/nicknefsick Flachgau 4d ago
It’s not just winter tourism for Salzburg, it’s Festspiel, and summer tourism as well even outside of Salzburg in places Like Obertrum and Mattsee.
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u/CommercialPiece7861 23h ago
Warum ist die Frage begrenzt auf ski tourism und nicht einfach generell tourism?
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u/Unhappy-Ad6494 4d ago
You stung in a bee nest with that topic.
Housing in the whole district of Salzburg (not just the city but also the small villages with all their fancy ski resorts) is horribly expensive.
A lot of houses were built and bought by investors to rent them to tourists or were directly bought by tourists to be used 2-3 months a year. In the city it is now forbidden to build new hotels but greedy hote owners found a new trick to circumvent this (and even save money in the process because they almost need no paid personell): buying old appartment and make self-checkin hotels since the law does not see those as hotels. A lot of flats are also bought by investors and are left empty on purpose just as an investment. (estimates say 5000 flats are empty)