Empty Homes In England - latest research from Empty Homes Agency

A new edition of the Empty Homes Agency analysis of empty homes figures has been published, reporting figures mainly derived from the 2016 CTB returns. The report shows the headline figures for long-term vacants based on those returns to be more or less stable around the 200,000 mark. The latest edition incorporates the results of the EHA research, funded by Esmee Fairbairn Trust, into why some areas of the country have higher levels of empty homes and reviews recent research into buy-to-leave in central London. This remains the most detailed discussion of empty homes statistics and the methodology behind them, with some important caveats about how they can be distorted and misinterpreted: We urge anyone using these statistics to take time to understand how they are calculated, and how changes in policies through time may have impacted on the recording of empty homes. We explore these issues below and why we think the official statistics do not give us a full picture of long-term empty homes.(p4) For its methodological insights as much as for the statistics reported, this is a vital reference for empty homes practitioners.