Because there’s a profit to be made.
Every penny of yours isn’t theirs yet, so their work isn’t done.
This is the problem. Source
Those percentages are pretty low. What does “involvement” mean?
The source I included above says this:
We have gone through these disclosures and identified which political representatives, and/or their spouses/common-law partners/dependents, fit into one or more of the following categories: 1) disclose residential rental property that they earn an income from; 2) disclose residential rental property without disclosing any income; 3) disclose non-residential property (vacant lots, farmland, etc.); 4) disclose some sort of other involvement in real estate (for example as a real estate agent, or with investments in real estate investment trusts).
So 128 MPs have some sort of involvement in real estate.
