Council launches new strategy to target empty homes
24dash - Hereford,UK
The council encourages owners of empty properties to consider living in the property, renting it out, leasing the property through a letting agent or ...

Spanish house price growth may fall further-ministryguardian.co.uk - UKThe ministry said there was a stock of at least 500000 or 600000 new homes standing empty in Spain. The Socialist government, reelected to a second term in ...

'Estate agents' offer empty homes for squat
Daily Mail - UK
On the agency's 'books' are scores of former pubs, abandoned flats and houses, derelict council properties and empty buildings owned by Government ...

Bringing empty houses back into use
Bourne Local - Bourne,England,UK
By Staff Copy Property owners with empty houses in a poor state of repair may be eligible for grants of up to £3000 thanks to South Kesteven District ...

Capital facing housing shortfall
BBC News - UK
"Over the last two years we have plugged the gap through leasing over 1000 empty properties from private property owners for temporary accommodation," he ...

Homes boost for city
Norwich Evening News - Norwich,England,UK
In March last year it took an average of 69 days to bring empty homes up to standard, but last month it took an average of just 22 days, officers at Norwich ...

Down with the cult of home ownership
Guardian - UK
Bringing empty buildings into use as homes and getting existing homes into a decent state of repair to rent may be a less sexy policy than a bidding war on ...

Housing remains a key issue in the London mayoral electionsProperty People Magazine - Beckenham,UKReducing the number of empty homes to a 2.5 per cent vacancy rate, and supporting enforcement measures including compulsory purchase where home owners are ...

`Serious drugs den` found by Kells property holder
Meath Chronicle - Meath,Ireland
Some 20 Maudlin Street properties were empty and there were now 48 derelict buildings around Kells, said Colr Brian Curran. Some 36 businesses had closed in ...

Hope can conquer fear
Guardian - UK
There are 83580 empty homes in London: they need to be brought back into use to provide more affordable housing. And we need to release surplus ...

Bid to put new life into empty homes
Burton Mail - Burton on Trent,England,UK
The problem has become so bad that South Derbyshire has the highest proportion of empty homes in the county - 2.72 per cent of the entire housing stock. ...

Credit fall out lands on buy-to-let
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... for handing over their property to a council for three, four or five years, landlords get a guaranteed monthly rent - even if their property is empty. ...

Bid to put new life into empty homes
Burton Mail - Burton on Trent,England,UK
The problem has become so bad that South Derbyshire has the highest proportion of empty homes in the county - 2.72 per cent of the entire housing stock. ...

Wales’ eco targets impact on affordable homes
ic Wales - United Kingdom
Since then there have been a number of proposed schemes for the site, including one involving 1100 homes. But it remains empty. The director said: “Some ...

One UK home in 10 'to fall into negative
Times Online - UK
Contrary to the popular myth there is no shortage of housing; a huge quantity of property remains empty as owners waited for the top of the market which has ...

Two ready-made sites for homes
Oxford Mail - Oxford,England,UK
This site must have been empty, or at least not used to its full potential, for some 15 to 20 years since the Americans left. If there is this desperate ...

Council set to buy 15 'eyesore' homes
Hornsey and Crouch End Journal - London,England,UK
HARINGEY Council is to forcibly take over 15 empty homes and sell them off at auction. a year and their private owners have amassed debts to the council. ...

Empty homes problem caused by increase in buy-to-leave
Choices - Sutton,Surrey,UK
Mr Oliver said that, amidst the current market slowdown, many property investors were finding that they could not make the return that they had expected. ...

Empty homes rise as demand falls
Introducer Today - Beckenham,England,UK
That is according to the Empty Homes Agency, which said that some buy-to-let property investors have left their houses empty because they cannot rent them ...

Plan to use 1800 empty homesNews Wales - Knighton,UKAn empty homes officer will work for an initial three years to tackle the problem of empty properties in the first partnership of its kind in North Wales ...

Don’t create NIMBY charter says BPF
Property People Magazine - Beckenham,UK
These include the selective licensing and empty property management orders brought in via the 2004 Housing Act and longer term powers of compulsory purchase ...

I Want A Home, Not A Place To Park The Mercedes
Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
"I've been waiting for months for a home and this building lies empty." The building - formerly used as a homeless hostel by Scottish Borders Council - has ...

Constructive thinking
Guardian - UK
Empty homes, second homes, the boom in badly managed buy-to-let properties, sky-high mortgage debt, the sudden decline of housing markets in some northern ...

Homes under the hammer
ic Wales - United Kingdom
As part of a proactive campaign by Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s public health and protection Team to tackle empty properties in the Maerdy area, ...

Grants to be given to new buyers
Estate Angels - London,UK
... house building levels by ensuring more land becomes available for development, empty homes are brought back into use and more family homes are built."

New legislation a 'minefield'
Peterborough Today - Peterborough,England,UK
"By penalising owners of empty property, there should be an increase in the supply of premises to let. "However, property owners trading on the margins of ...

Could Your Rent Drop? - Empty Property Relief Changes
Bizhelp 24 - Sheffield,UK
Changes to the out of date system of reliefs have removed perverse incentives to keep buildings empty, and encourage owners to bring them back into use, ...

Flint announces grants for first-time buyers
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
It is also argued empty homes should be brought back into use and more family homes be built. The government has outlined plans to build two million new ...

Neglected homes to be taken over
The Argus.co.uk - Brighton,UK
"Our empty property strategy is based on three stages - identify, encourage and enforce. "We always aim to work with the owners of empty properties but we ...

Greener and greener?
Assetz News - Stockport,England,UK
... herring" and argued that the emphasis should instead be placed on green extensions to existing populated areas and the redevelopment of empty homes. ...

Filling up the empty homes
News Guardian - North Tyneside,England,UK
By DAVID SEDGWICK A STRATEGY is being drawn up to try and reduce the number of empty homes there are in the borough. Figures show that there were 2480 empty ...

Labour MPs' fury over homes crisis
Guardian - UK
It urges councils to buy up the empty homes, allowing former owners to stay under their own roof as council tenants and helping councils expand housing ...

Gimme shelter
The Observer - UK
Councils, he says, should exercise their compulsory purchase powers to bring more empty homes back into use and - in common with Johnson - he identifies ...

Empty commercial buildings lose relief from rates
Norwich Union Risk Services - Birmingham,England,UK
According to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) empty property relief last year cost £1.3 billion. "It is not right that empty ...

Still not convinced on eco towns
Property People Magazine - Beckenham,UK
“Building brand new eco towns outside existing settlements is really a bad idea when there are 675000 empty homes in England alone sitting empty, ...

Peterborough uses new powers to bring empty home back to life
24dash - Hereford,UK
A property has been given a new lease of life thanks to Peterborough City Council after originally being left empty for more than six months. ...

Now there will be 17 takeaways in one Farnworth street
Bolton News - Bolton,England,UK
Cllr Andy Morgan added: "It's good to see an empty property being taken on. Otherwise do we let it stay empty and bring the area down further? ...

Fifteen provisional eco town locations announced
Green Building Press - Llandysul,Wales,UK
“Building brand new eco–towns outside existing settlements is a really bad idea when there are 675000 empty homes in England alone sitting empty, ...