Councillors launch bid to put people into vacant homes
Wood & Vale - London,England,UK
WESTMINSTER'S Labour councillors have launched Empty Homes Watch - a scheme to get vacant homes back into use. The move comes after the Wood&Vale revealed ...

Flats for sale at £12500
NW Evening Mail - Barrow-in-Furness,England,UK
EIGHT empty tenement flats, for sale at a knock down price, are causing a flurry of interest among property developers across the country. ...

A big beast of Irish property pulls in his horns
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
It is difficult to quantify how many flats lie empty across the country, but the vacancy rates are believed to be high. The property website Daft.ie ...

Council targets empty properties
BBC – Sat, 24 May 2008
Council targets empty properties
Properties can be vandalised if they are left emptyA council has set a target of bringing one empty property ...

Govt calls for more rented properties
Property News - London,England,UK
... homes needed. The committee also calls for tighter tax measures to prevent investors in the private rented sector from leaving properties empty for long ...

Government must tackle social housing shortage 'head on'
24dash - Hereford,UK
On the other, we have more and more people snapping up homes simply to leave them empty and make a profit. “The situation is now so serious that the ...

MPs WANT FREEDOM FOR COUNCILS TO CREATE MORE HOMES FOR RENT
PublicNet - Westcliff-on-Sea,Essex,UK
Local authorities should be able to build on land that they own and to reinvest the money raised through the sale of council houses in new homes according ...

50000 new homes needed for renting
The Press Association -
In a report, the committee also called for action to ensure that council and housing association homes are spread throughout communities, ...

Proposal to raise rates on empty houses
Belfast Newsletter - Belfast,UK
Mr Robinson launched the consultation paper yesterday, seeking views on rating empty homes at 100 per cent liability. "A fundamental aim is to encourage ...

50000 more rented homes needed
MyFinances.co.uk - London,UK
Again the committee would like to see tax measures to discourage property owners from leaving properties empty for long periods, in order to bolster supply. ...

MPs urge more rented housing
Property Week News - London,England,UK
The committee wants tax measures to discourage property owners from leaving properties empty for long periods, and questions taxes on developments of social ...

MPs Back Federation of Master Builders' Call for VAT Cut
Federation of Master Builders – Thu, 22 May 2008
...regenerative effect on the street and the wider neighbourhood of reusing empty property can be striking. Brian Berry, Director of External Affairs...

Northern Ireland: Have your say
BBC News Northern Ireland – Thu, 22 May 2008
Rosy Billingham reported on plans to make use of empty houses in Northern Ireland for social housing. In the studio Jim Fitzpatrick ...

Empty homes can alleviate housing problem claims RICS
Residential Landlord - Dartford,UK
RICS Policy Officer, James Rowlands said: “With over 663000 empty homes estimated in England, it is essential the Government bring these properties back ...

MPs call for tax measures to tackle empty homes
Regen.net (subscription) - London,England,UK
The “buy-to-leave” trend – where homes are left empty simply to earn money through capital appreciation – is particular evident in places like Leeds, ...

MPs to call for big increase in number of rented homes
guardian.co.uk - UK
... with incentives for private firms to offer long lets and a crackdown on landlords who do not maintain property or leave homes empty for long periods. ...

Editor-At-Large: Eco-towns are just vandalism dressed up in a ...
Independent - London,England,UK
More importantly, 16000 homes sit empty in the city, where the council has been turning disused textile factories into residential units. ...

Rics calls on govt to act over empty homes
Estate Angels - London,UK
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) wants the government to do more to bring empty homes back onto the market. ...

Hermione Eyre: Cool title, but what does it mean?
Independent - London,England,UK
And empty homes can now be much more efficiently requisitioned for rebuilding, thanks to recent policy changes. Good news, certainly, but I did not feel ...

Homes index system goes through roof
Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
... which has helped to increase demand for all properties, including difficult to let ones, and led to a reduction in the number of long-term empty homes. ...

GROUP TO FILL EMPTY SPACES
Express & Echo - Exeter,England,UK
Mr Morris said when developers moved into the property, the workshop would simply move on to a new empty building. He said: " In this way, ...

Renovation A - Z Weekend - National Self Build & Renovation Centre ...
Newswire Today (press release) - London,UK
Whether you are looking to get on to the property ladder, move up it or make a profit from property, chances are you will have to tackle some home ...

Three new rights to right local wrongs - new Community Empowerment Bill to harness petition power
CLG - Communities & Local Government

Brown pledges ￡200m to buy empty homes
Inside Housing - UK
By Tom Lloyd The government is to give ￡200 million to the Housing Corporation to buy developers' hard-to-shift homes in a bid to prop up the struggling ...

DO THEY REALLY EXPECT PEOPLE TO LIVE LIKE THIS?
Wirral Globe
The bricks from a destroyed wall block an entire alleyway. Scorch marks scar the sides of burnt out houses. Windows stand open without panes or boards, the ceilings inside, upstairs and down, gaping with wrenched holes.

Ministers' Housing Fears Revealed
BBC
UK house prices could fall "at best" by 5-10% this year, according to secret Cabinet briefing notes accidentally revealed by a housing minister.

£876k grant boost to improve private houses
York Press - York,UK
It is for up to 75 per cent of the cost of the works that will make the empty property meet the decency standard as determined by the council. ...

WALTHAM FOREST: Target set for more new social homes
Epping Forest Guardian - UK
Targetting empty properties in the borough was highlighted as a priority, with Cllr Pye announcing that 800 empty homes have been brought back to the ...

Thousands in Leeds left out of pocket by the buy-to-let crash
Times Online - UK
A recent riverside development of 50 flats — each with an agreed buyer who had paid a 10 per cent deposit of £20000 — is empty because every purchaser has ...

Half a million empty homes in Portugal
Portugal News - Lagoa,Algarve,Portugal
Various situations have given rise to the number of empty houses, such as housing available for sale or rental and houses to be demolished. ...

The credit crunch has hit buy-to-let investors, but only up to a point
Times Online - UK
There will also be renovation of the capital's 84205 empty homes, less building on back gardens, more preservation of historic views and more ...

Convicted lottery winner 'must renovate house'
Telegraph.co.uk - United KingdomMichael Carroll, 25, who scooped a £9.7 million jackpot in 2002, has been told that officials may use new legislation to take control of the empty property ...

Optimism follows Johnson victory
Property Industry News - London,England,UK
It also set out aims to bring 84000 empty homes back into use and spend £130 million helping first-time buyers onto the housing ladder. ...

Lotto winner plans to revamp home
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Norwich,England,UK
The council also said that much trumpeted powers to force owners of empty homes make properties liveable in again could in reality take years to implement. ...

Boris faces 'property reality test'
MyFinances.co.uk - London,UK
Mr Johnson has also expressed a desire to invest £60 million from the Regional Housing Pot to start renovating the capital's 84205 empty properties – a move ...

When work begins for Mayor Johnson
BBC News - UK
He also wants to invest millions of pounds in renovating more than 80000 empty properties in the capital to get low-income people off housing waiting lists. ...

Real need on homes 'ignored in pursuit of targets'
Yorkshire Post - Leeds,England,UK
Ministers are also accused of not doing enough to bring back into use some of the 672924 empty homes, while there are claims Whitehall's obsession with ...

AM, Sat 3rd May - How will the new London Mayor effect the ...
Landlord Expert - London,UK
Johnson concentrates on quality, first-time buyers and renovation of the Capital’s 84205 empty properties. He believes in incentivising boroughs to release ...

Govt needs to focus on empty homes
Houseladder - Kingston upon Thames,England,UK
The government needs to look at bringing empty homes back into use if it is to meet its housing targets. The government needs to look at bringing empty ...

Fresh anger over Felixstowe homes
Ipswich Evening Star - Ipswich,England,UK
The opposition from the Felixstowe Society has been backed by the Suffolk Preservation Society (SPS), which believes there could be up to 1000 empty homes ...

No interest in Moot Hall
Daventry Express - Daventry,England,UK
By Steve Mills ONE of Daventry's most important landmark buildings remains empty with seemingly no-one interested in taking it over. ...