Homeowners asked to take action - 27th November 2007
Weston & Somerset Mercury - eston-super-Mare,England,UK
As part of National Empty Property Week, North Somerset Council is encouraging people to take action. Homeowners are being asked to bring their properties ...

Empty House 'Tax' Should Boost Housing Market - 27th November 2007
4ni.co.uk - UK
Mr Robinson said that he plans to rate empty homes at 100% to encourage their use - as a potential boost for those seeking homes - possibly by 2009, ...

We build 3 million homes - or leave these families in Dickensian ... 27th November 2007 Guardian Unlimited - UK
... be done to mobilise empty houses, to help elderly people to move into smaller flats and to stamp out what is Britain's ugliest inequality: second homes. ...

Leaving home for the homeland - 24th November 2007
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Most of those who leave cannot take the money they have earned during their life and if they leave their homes empty the state will eventually confiscate ...

Birmingham aims to tackle empty properties - 22nd November 2007
Midlands Housing - UK
Birmingham has made considerable improvements in dealing with empty homes since 2003, when the council's first Empty Property strategy was launched. ...

½bn plan to boost homes - 22nd November 2007
Southport Visiter - Southport,England,UK
... with more new homes built and refurbished, and ongoing development of community programmes and facilities. Tackle issues of empty properties and improve ...

First-time buyers: first rung has just come a step closer - 21st November 2007
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Following the Housing White Paper last month, minister Yvette Cooper announced a drive to bring empty homes back into use and give more cash to councils ...

Flats nearly half of town housing stock - 20th November 2007
Dorset Echo - England,UK
Panellists heard that more than 2000 homes stood empty in Bournemouth in April this year. More than 600 had been empty for more than six months. ...

What to do with our historic homes? 19th November 2007
Pendle Today - Burnley,East Lancashire,UK
Sadly, those days are long gone and the hotel has stood empty and increasingly derelict for several years now. The developers (from out of town) see ...

Homeless to 'recycle' empty homes - 19th November 2007
24dash - Hereford,UK
... homeless people help refurbish empty properties and then move into them, is set to come to East Leeds in a partnership with East North East Homes Leeds. ...

Time for a true countryside alliance - 19th November 2007
Guardian Unlimited - UK
One person's freedom to buy a cottage with a sea view, which will sit empty for much of the year, must surely be weighed against a rural community's ...

Blitz on vacant property - 16th November 2007
Liverpool City Council - United Kingdom
A CAMPAIGN to rid Liverpool of thousands of empty and derelict buildings is to be stepped up. Enforcement action is to be taken against owners of more than ...

Homeless volunteers renovate empty houses - 16th November 2007
24dash - Hereford,UK
The Canopy Housing Project will then rent the homes back to the people who helped spruce them up. Ten council houses in the east of the city are the first ...

Parents buy up homes in advance - 16th November 2007
Inside Housing - UK
By Martin Hilditch Anxious parents are leaving homes standing empty on housing estates after buying them up for their children, a study of the buy-to-let ...

Mayor in call over Grove Hill estate - 16th November 2007
GazetteLive - Middlesbrough,UK
ACTION to bring the bulldozers in to demolish more than 200 empty homes in Middlesbrough's Grove Hill estate needs to be taken now, says Middlesbrough's ...

Carlisle brings empty houses back into use - 13th November 2007
Northern Housing - UK
This would be achieved from the rental income received when the property is brought back into a good state of repair. An Empty Property Grants scheme is ...

£2bn regeneration plan costs homes but fails to smarten the North - 9th November 2007
Times Online - UK
Landlords in some areas bought empty houses earmarked for demolition in the hope of making a profit from compulsory purchase orders, putting the overall ...

Boarded-up homes bring arson worry - 8th November 2007
The Asian News - UK
One of the most serious happened in August when 25 firefighters dealt with a blaze involving five empty homes on Nile Street. ...

Councillor: Darwen's never looked so bad - 8th November 2007
Lancashire Evening Telegraph - UK
And Coun Paul Browne has been backed by Darwen MP Janet Anderson in his claim that empty homes in designated regeneration areas such as Redearth, ...

Bricks, mortar and social engineering - 6th November 2007
Spiked - London,UK
Those who treat their homes as an investment, those who buy-to-let or leave their holiday homes empty are wrongly condemned for their part in the housing ...

New fund aims to help get empty homes back in use - 2nd November 2007
Bourne Local - Bourne,England,UK
Under South Kesteven District Council's new Empty Homes Fund, as long as a property has been unoccupied and unfurnished for at least six months and owners ...

Call to reduce homelessness - 1st November 2007
Cambridge Evening News - Cambridge,England,UK
EMPTY homes should be used to fight homelessness in a fast-growing area, an MP believes. Jim Paice wants action in East Cambridgeshire after uncovering ...

Can't sell it? Let it! - 1st November 2007
Letting News - UK
This applies equally to landlords trying to sell an investment property. An empty property is a waste of potential income and it is always preferable to ...