Through the Roof - Economist magazine takes a sober look at UK housing market
There is a short section on the over-hyped buy-to-leave phenomenon. Otherwise, the graph plotting 20-year international real house-price indexes is an eye-opener.
Around the web
Agent offers empty homes to 20 ex-service personnel
A heart-warming tale of an estate agent (or letting agent?) using creative options to let 20 empty homes to ex-Service personnel. The agent posted on Facebook and has had 64k+ shares: https://www.facebook.com/paul.banning.96/posts/1030479710336530?pnref=story
Camarthenshire report reveals empty homes successes
Long term empty properties successfully fall in Barking and Dagenham
Empty homes to help solve housing crisis - BBC news item
This BBC news item features Leeds Empty Homes Doctor Gill Coupland, Helen Willaims (Chief Exec, EHA) and a community-led housing project.
Is this the solution to Japan's glut of empty homes? - FT story
1st May
'Scandal': Empty homes in London at their highest level since 2010 | Evening StandardMore than 34000 homes across the capital are 'long-term vacant', according to the latest available data.New policy to bring nearly 500 empty homes back…