The Ownership of Many Homes in Northern Ireland & Australia: Issues for States and Localities (Report‪)‬

1. INTRODUCTION The relationships between residential location, property ownership and population mobility have become increasingly complicated due to growing affluence and associated movements of people on daily, weekly, seasonal and other time-specific bases. Affluence and mobility--or even multiple forms of mobility (Urry, 2007)--have become the norm for a substantial minority of citizens of affluent countries. The ownership of additional dwellings primarily for leisure use--typically referred to as 'holiday homes' in Australia but more usually as 'second homes' (2)--is also increasingly widespread throughout affluent countries and is taking on an ever more transnational dimension (Paris, 2008b). An increasing number of households in affluent countries own more than one 'additional' residence for their own non-commercial use, so the term 'multiple residences' may be preferred as an alternative to referring to multiple 'second' homes (McIntyre et al, 2006; Paris 2008b).