I'm not a property developer, so I don't know how many flats they are forced to rent out as first-hand contracts when building new blocks. You can definitely b

I'm not a property developer, so I don't know how many flats they are forced to rent out as first-hand contracts when building new blocks. You can definitely buy apartments from new blocks though, and then you're just paying the normal market price. Second-hand contracts and commercial rentals also aren't covered by the rent controls, but I imagine the property developers can't rent them like that directly (only by selling them).