It could, if there weren't a century or two of legal precedent for treating your home differently from your phone calls.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24541163 suggests an alternative may be to arrange for your current neighbours to discover a deal on a (nicer/bigger/better located) apartment ... and then, when they move out, place recording devices there.
Depends under which jurisdiction. The Swedish ambassador to North Korea complained to his secretary that the driveway outside was still full of snow. He was about to order some of his own men out, but minutes later a bunch of North Korean labourers appeared and cleared all the snow away in front of his embassy, including the driveway. When he asked the secretary, she told him that she hadn't called anyone. Then they both stared suspiciously at the flower pot.
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