Housing Act 'clamping down on empty homes' - 31st August 2007
Property News - London,England,UK
The agency has advised that the number of homes that are still empty is falling at a faster rate then before as a result, adding that a particular effort ...

It's time to use empty properties - 30th August 2007
Scotsman - United Kingdom
The number of empty homes can be reduced by offering landlords support to sell their property or bring it back into use by giving them assistance to find ...

Plans for new homes steam in for approval - 30th August 2007
Dorset Echo - England,UK
The vacant and largely overgrown site has lain empty for decades and was at one time safeguarded as a corridor for a controversial Christchurch inner relief ...

Inspectors want to curb Brown's housing targets - 30th August 2007
Daily Mail - UK
Jacqui Lait, Conservative shadow minister for planning, said: "Gordon Brown's empty promise that he would protect the green belt has been exposed to be ...

Empty business premises to pay full rates
Sommerset County Gazette - Taunton,England,UK
A spokeswoman for Taunton Deane Council said the Government had brought in new rules to encourage empty commercial property back into use.

Empty houses into homes - 23rd August 2007
Richmond and Twickenham Times - UK
Richmond upon Thames Council's empty property scheme gives grants to owners of empty homes. The owner then agrees to lease out the property to the council ...

OUR HOUSING CRISIS - 22nd August 2007
Bath Chronicle - Bath,England,UK
"We need to tackle this issue with lots of small measures, freeing up empty property in the city, converting basements. "We don't have much space to expand ...

HUGE TOLL OF SECOND HOMES - 17th August 2007
The Cornishman - Truro,England,UK
The WMN survey has also found there are more than 20000 empty properties across both counties - almost half of which have been empty for more than six ...

Second home tax funds new houses - 17th August 2007
BBC News - UK
Stirling Council is set to raise more than £1m this year after it reduced the council tax discount on second homes and long-term empty properties. ...

Warnings over lack of affordable homes - 16th August 2007
Norwich Evening News - Norwich,England,UK
This is despite the group warning that in the Greater Norwich area 3900 homes currently stand empty - almost 2.5pc of the housing stock - which it says are ...

South Gloucestershire consultation on empty homes - 13th August 2007
Southern Housing - UK
The council wants to hear from anyone affected by empty homes in their local area, or who has views on the impact of empty homes, or ideas on how they ...

'Why should I pay tax on an uninhabitable home?
'Croydon Guardian - Croydon,England,UK
Suresh Tank has been renovating a property he acquired in April which, he says, entitles him to a six-month council tax exemption because the house is empty ...

MoD will sell off empty flats - 12th August 2007
Watford Observer - Watford,England,UK
Many of the empty homes now have smashed windows and are boarded up, while others are falling into a general state of disrepair with crumbling brickwork. ...

Views sought on empty homes - 10th August 2007
24dash.com - Hereford,Herefordshire,UK
The council is keen to hear from anyone affected by empty homes in their local area, or who has views on the impact of empty homes, or ideas on how they ...

Council gets tougher over vacant properties - 8th August 2007
Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph - Kettering,Northamptonshire,UK
Of those privately-owned properties which have remained vacant for more than six months in the Kettering area, more than 50 empty homes have been bought ...

Empty Rental Properties a Suburban Myth? - 7th August 2007
Letting News - UK
... causing the shortage of UK homes and pushing prices up. Only 3% of those surveyed were found to be purposefully leaving their buy-to-let property empty ...

Law to help free houses
Richmond and Twickenham Times - UK
... do anything to the property that its legal owner could. Several attempts were made to contact the owners after it was first reported as empty in 2003. ...

Rat infested property devalues rest of street
Richmond and Twickenham Times - UK
The elderly owner of the empty Devonshire Road property, Mrs Price, who did not want to give her first name, inherited the address from her father. ...

Flats developer to pay £900000 for affordable homes - 7th August 2007
Lancashire Evening Post - Preston,England,UK
Coun Ron Yates, who represents the city centre ward, suggested that money from such schemes could be put into upgrading the "many empty homes" currently in ...

Few buy-to-let investors are not keeping properties empty 6th August 2007
CityWire.co.uk - London,England,UK
Claims that buy-to-let investors are deliberately keeping properties empty have been declared, 'false' by Britain's biggest buy-to-let company. ...

State of empty ex army homes is 'scandalous' 3rd August 2007
Surrey Advertiser - Surrey,England,UK
Annington Homes became the largest private owner of residential property in the UK after buying more than 57000 homes from the MOD in 1996. ...

North London grant scheme to tackle Capital's housing crisis
Islington Council is promoting a new grant scheme designed to make more homes available to rent or buy.

Thousands homeless while Cornish summer homes sit empty
Mortgage Strategy - UK
By Laura Stavro-Beauchamp Thousands of Cornish houses sit empty for most of the year while the number of people waiting for social housing has more than ...

No wonder there's a housing waiting list! 2nd August 2007
Southport Visiter - Southport,Lancashire,UK
by Helen Korn, Skelmersdale Advertister A COMMUNITY stalwart has blasted the council for leaving a house empty even though there is a massive shortage. ...

We'll evict squatters says city council - 1st August 2007
Norwich Evening News - Norwich,England,UK
A 67-year-old woman living close to the property, said: "This has happened three times now, the council know the property has been empty for two years, ...