I would if I thought I was one! A speculator I'd see as the sort of person who regularly buys and sells property hoping to make quick cash. While there is some tax regulation to discourage that here (you pay a lot more in CGT if you sell quickly etc.), I still don't think we have the settings right, it's too easy to make money if you already have it, at the expense of houses not being available to people who actually want to buy a house they can live in (who are stereotypically couples thinking of starting families etc.)