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,...
This was a new category in our Empty Homes Awards and it produced more entries than we have ever had,...
The Irish media are reporting the announcement by Eoghan Murphy, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Goverment, of the measures...
Empty homes in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea are back in the headlines after RKBC released a list...
The Innovation Award is the brainchild of Carson Millican (pictured right), trading as Empty Property Solutions Ltd. Now based in Northern Ireland, Carson gained many years’ experience of empty homes work at different London Boroughs and with the East London Regeneration Partnership and has been a stalwart member of the Empty Homes Network for many years, serving on its Executive.
In sponsoring the award, Carson explained as follows:
Empty property practitioners excel at providing a range of solutions to the problem of wasted homes. I hope this award will highlight the innovative thinking required to deal with the difficult long...
A number of news reports have been citing research by estate agents James Pendleton Ltd. which shows how little use...
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About the Award
The Award submissions
The winning Award submission
Destin’s offer
About the Award
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The fire at Grenfell House in Kensington and Chelsea has brought empty homes into the headlines, following Jeremy Corbyn’s call...
Alok Sharma, MP for Reading West, has been appointed Minister of State for Housing and Planning at the Department of...
This is our longest-running awards category and it always attracts high quality submissions, making the choice of winners difficult.
This...
With the election only a few days away and all the manifestos now published, this is a good time for a brief look at policy proposals connected to bringing empty property back into use for housing.
Perhaps surprisingly, the Labour Party manifesto does not mention the issue at all, although it refers to prioritising brownfield sites. The commitment to use the Homes and Communities Agency as the 'delivery body' for housing will sound as much like a threat as a promise to some of the practitioners who were closely involved in the 2011-15 Empty Homes Programme. Considering that housing was...
Delegates to the 2017 Empty Homes Conference, held in Birmingham last week, gave it an average rating of 4.73 out...
A very successful and well-attended Empty Homes Conference on Wednesday in Birmingham contained one poignant moment, when the delegates showed...
Destin Solutions Ltd. is seeking to help local authorities maximise NHB by partnering with a local authority empty homes team...
