Each country have almost one definition of second home. We, as scientists, have sometimes difficulties to find data and to compare between countries. What's your definition for "second home"? What's your experience of comparison? I would like to discuss this issue with you
Luis Garzón 2 hours ago
In Spain "Main residence" is defined as the place one lives for most of the week while "Second home" is the place for weekends and holidays.
Ana Teresa Pedreiro an hour ago
Greetings from Coimbra!
In Portugal, a second home is usually an accommodation used for holiday vacations or to spend the weekend.
I don't have experience of comparison.
Best regards
Bruno Durpeyiron 19 hours ago
I agree with Ana Teresa: second homes may be defined as secondary residences that are used for touristic / leisure purposes. In Canada, we call them "cottages". It would be similar to someone, residing mainly in Strasbourg, who would own a chalet in the Vosges. A cottage is generally fairly close to the main residence, but it might be located in another province, depending on several factors (origin of the family unit, income, etc).
As for "main residence", in Canada, it is called "principal residence".
I think that, if you want to do a cross-country comparison, you have to go with similar notions that just differ slightly in their linguistic form.
Good luck!
In Bulgaria second home means secondary residences especially in immigrants cases. We also have "cottages" for leisure purposes - small houses near big cities where people practice some agricultural works during the weekend
Dear Mila
Thank you for your contribution from Bulgaria. Do you have statistics on second homes in Bulgaria?
Dear Cedric,
There is a different statistics in Bulgaria - one presents the number of cottages or country villages, the other is about foreigners especially Russians who have second homes on Bulgarian seaside (Russian second homes are around 500 000 in BG).
Dear Mila
500'000 Russian second homes in BG, wow!
What is the local impact of this group in the economy?
This is really a good question. In Norway the use of "hytte" is official, and means a separate house built for recreational purposes. These are those in the official fi, BUT.gures likr in Statistic Norways figures.. Bu the you have all other recreational second or third homes, like those inn purpose built appartment buildings, converted old houses like deserted farm buildings and small one-room flats in the cities. In addition cohabitant with two separate houses are more and more commmon.
THOR FLOGNFELDT
I AM NOT SURE. THIS IS. ANY HELP, BUT..
Dear Thor
Thank you for your remark about the definition of second home in Norway!
So you use the term "hytte" also for urban secondary home? You wrote, there are more and more "cohabitant" with two separate houses : you mean the LATs? How many people have or use more than one residence in Norway?
Hi
Hytte is a separate smaller house, a cabin, most often located in rural areas, but could be in towns. In Norway there are officially 450 000 hytter, 5 million inhabitants. But the figure could be expanded a bit due to former small farmhouses now used for recreation. In natonal surveys close to every second family has "access" to a hytte. Access means they they could use it for free. Most often these are sons and daughters of the older owners, grandparents or son. But also brothers and sisters and cousins might be included.
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