As one of the UK's leading auction houses, with more than 20 years’ experience selling all types of property, Savills Auctions is ideally placed to achieve the best sale price regardless of the property’s condition.Last year Savills Auctions brought the…
With Empty Homes week edging closer, the Empty Homes Network shares some practical advice for Local Authorities looking to expand their reach, exposure and engagement with empty home owners, complainants and the surrounding communities.Internal Communications…
I’ve been working with Local Authorities generally and Empty Homes Officers in particular for years now and it remains true that each has their own approach to their common objective of BEHBIU*. Councils differ: some EHOs have no difficulty accessing Council…
Action on Empty Homes, the national campaigning organisation for bringing empty homes back into use, have announced the dates for the annual National Empty Homes Week, 2023.Taking place from 27th February through to 5th March, Empty Homes Week offers…
As planning and preparation for the Empty Homes Conference 2023 continues to gather pace, unforeseen circumstances have led to a slight change on date and venue to that originally planned on Thursday 25th May, at Maple House.This year’s flagship empty homes…
Join Fraser and Fraser with guest speaker Andrew Lavender for webinar: Challenges to Enforcement Notices: “Forewarned is Forearmed”Andrew Lavender is an Environmental Health Practitioner and qualified surveyor, who has specialised in housing for the last 27…
Action on Empty Homes have appointed Rebecca Moore to the role of Director, following the departure of Will McMahon in November. Rebecca joins Action on Empty Homes from a background working across sectors in arts and culture, education, and social…
It can be risky to take things completely at face value - they’re not always as they seem. Take the case we’ve just dealt with for an EHO at a council in the Home Counties. The EHO was relatively new in post and on her list was three-years-empty 23 The Limes.…
We pleased to share the release of the Empty Homes Network’s training and events calendar for 2023.The Empty Homes Network provides courses for all experience levels, ranging from our ‘Introduction to Empty Homes for Practitioners’ course, for those new to…
The Empty Homes Network are excited to announce the return to an in-person Conference for 2023. After two successful years holding our annual event virtually, we are returning to our pre-Covid platform and venue, in what promises to be our biggest Conference…
Following the release of the Council Taxbase 2022 statistics, The Empty Homes Network has taken a closer look at the comparison in figures from last year, in which has seen the numbers of empty homes across many of the criteria, rise over the past 12…
The Council Taxbase dataset, which provides statistical information on empty, second and exempt homes across England has been released for 2022.The information, broken down by regions as well as local authority areas, provides a snapshot of a local…
Job Title: Empty Property OfficerLocal Authority: Merton CouncilGrade/Salary: ME13 £42,795 - £45,834 per annumTerm: 2 year fixed term contractThe Regulatory Services Partnership delivers the private sector housing service on behalf of the London Boroughs of…
