Top ten tips for filing your tax returns - 28th September 2007
Scotsman - United Kingdom
1 Minimise void periods: Empty properties cost money. Attracting quality tenants who treat a property well and stay is key to successful property management ...

Empty offices cost town £10k rent a month - 26th September 2007
NW Evening Mail - Barrow-in-Furness,Lake District,UK
BARROW Borough Council is losing out on £10000-a-month rent from the new Emlyn Hughes House, which stands empty. Since its completion in May, ...

Livingstone gives housing warning to councils - 26th September 2007
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
Mr Livingstone told delegates today he was "ashamed" every time he looked out of his office window at the empty land on the Potter's Field site in south ...

NEW HOMES SALES HALTED - 26th September 2007
Express & Echo - Exeter,England,UK
New homes in Exeter are lying empty as a planning wrangle rages between developers and the city council. Eleven families have been prevented from moving ...

Home-town woes up Nigel's street - 26th September 2007
Manchester Evening News - Manchester,England,UK
This resulted in hundreds of empty homes being boarded up, only to be wrecked by arsonists, or used as drug dens. The city council acquired about 400 ...

Crackdown on number of abandoned empty homes - 25th September 2007
Sunderland Echo - UK
Errant landlords could be forced to sell empty homes left to rack and ruin, it was revealed today. Council chiefs have vowed to use tougher laws after new ...

Homes sale to fund repairs? 25th September 2007
ic SouthLondon.co.uk - United Kingdom
... say it is considering selling some empty properties to developers and housing associations to get money to do up other empty homes across the borough. ...

Mental health centre planned for empty Ulverston building
NW Evening Mail - Barrow-in-Furness,Lake District,UK
... Disabilities Pooled Fund, and followed Department of Health guidance that the first call on any redundant property is alternative health service use. ...

Owners of empty properties told to be extra vigilant - 21st September 2007
Highland News - Inverness,Scotland,UK
The 170-year-old semi-derelict property had been used as a hostel until about a decade ago was being redeveloped by Ewen Gillies builders. ...

Aberdeen City Council scoops award - 21st September 2007
eGov monitor - London,UK
The APSE (Association of Public Service Excellence) recognised Aberdeen City Council in the Best Efficiency Initiative category for its Empty Homes ...

Town Hall homes to go under the hammer as sell-off begins - 20th September 2007
Camden New Journal - London,UK
... identify empty houses that are ripe for sale. The street properties up for grabs are meant to be used to ease the massive waiting list for council homes ...

Buying Vacant Properties - 19th September 2007
TheLondonPaper - London
London is in the grip of such a severe housing crisis that – despite the travails of Tewkesbury and the like – the regional authorities continue to plan new residential developments on flood plains...

Double bills for second homes? - 18th September 2007
Dorset Echo - England,UK
There were too many holiday homes left empty and unoccupied during the winter months and the "seasonal fluctuation had a detrimental effect on local ...

325 empty homes in Congleton Borough - 18th September 2007
Crewe Guardian - Cheshire,UK
By Ian Ross MEMBERS of the public are being asked for their views on plans to bring empty homes back into use. There are 325 homes in Congleton Borough ...

New rates ruling will have opposite effect to that wanted
Cumberland News - Carlisle,Cumbria,UK
"The government has reformed empty property relief in order to provide a strong incentive to bring empty property back into use. This will help to increase ...

Ban all the new homes - 14th September 2007
Halifax Today - UK
According to Calderdale Council planning committee chairman Grenville Horsfall, there are about 2000 empty apartments and 3000 empty houses out of a total ...

'Shocking' number of empty homes - 13th September 2007
icBerkshire - Reading,England,UK
Reading has a total of 1996 empty homes - 567 of them privately owned and empty for longer than six months. One house in Christchurch Road has been empty ...

Boss in fraud trial 'left homes empty' - 11th September 2007
Cambridge Evening News - Cambridge,England,UK
A BOSS accused of tax fraud splashed out on luxury furnishings and fittings for his numerous homes but left them standing empty, a jury heard. ...

Private deal to free up council homes in disarray - 9th Setember 2007
The Argus.co.uk - Brighton,UK
He added: "This will enable more rigorous monitoring and supervision of the empty property process in conjunction with the council. ...

Increase in holiday homes is 'isolating Welsh villages' - 7th September 2007
ic Wales - United Kingdom
The figure is far higher than recently published county figures and have left communities "empty" and "isolated", according to the people who live in them. ...

CBI plea over empty properties - 7th September 2007
ic Wales - United Kingdom
by Sion Barry, Western Mail CBI WALES is calling on the Assembly to resist UK government pressure to remove empty property rate exemptions, a move which it ...

Landlords ''opposed to rates relief changes'' - commercial mortgages - 3rd September 2007 Mortgages for Business - London,UK
The vast majority of retail landlords oppose changes to empty property rates relief tax outlined in this year''s Budget, it has been revealed. ...

Buy-to-let a "mainstream" market - 3rd September 2007
Assetz News - Stockport,Cheshire,UK
One particular accusation leveled at investors is that they buy up stock and then leave it empty for long periods. But if this was the dominant picture, ...

Empty homes , but 26500 people wait for one, claims Tory - 3rd September 2007
Sunderland Echo - UK
This means Sunderland now has more empty public sector homes than any other part of the region. The city also has 653 households that are registered as ...