And did it work?

I ask because corporates usually figure out how to use the rules to their advantage and I am now trying to sniff through how they would play this.

Can I buy a property, rent it out for six months, then re-sell it to this other, totally independent corporation I own?

This seems both obvious and difficult to prevent.

Usually there are large and unavoidable transaction costs involved in selling/buying properties. It's a liquidity event on a large amount of capital so it's pretty much inevitable that government want to get involved with taxes, duties, fees etc.

Yeah, doesn't this just end up increasing short term rental prices across the board? It's not like there is a shortage of demand for lodging in Paris.