4 million people have received an empty house SMS – Tejaratnews

According to Tejarat News, Abolfazl Nowrozi stated that about 400 million records of property ownership and existence have been made in the country, and said: According to the legal provisions, 570 thousand empty houses were identified, and generally the owners had more than 2 empty houses.
By stating that this amount of empty houses was identified until 1400, in response to the question of how many uninhabited residential units have been identified so far, he added: So far, we have introduced about 18 thousand empty houses to the tax organization.
He continued by stating that we have 2 basic approaches in identifying empty houses: one is that we are not looking for income generation and we are looking for maximum supply for market management. Also, as much as we can, we try not to introduce empty houses to the tax affairs organization.
The head of the housing economics office said that we have sent text messages of empty houses to 4 million people so far, and added: This does not mean that we have 4 million empty residential units in the country.
Recalling that according to the census of 1995, about 2.6 million empty houses were identified, Norouzi said: the index of empty houses in all countries of the world is 5%, this figure for Iran is about 10%, which is 5% more than the world average and equal to about 1.2 million The house is empty. According to the law, villages and towns with a population of less than 100,000 people are not subject to tax on empty houses.
He said that the identification of 82,000 empty houses has been finalized. Out of 82 thousand units, about 18 thousand houses have been introduced to the tax affairs organization during the previous year.
Source: Tasnim