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Ad Hoc Property Management sponsor The Empty Homes Conference 2013

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May 9, 2013

We're pleased to announce that Ad Hoc Property Management Ltd. is providing sponsorship for The Empty Homes Conference 2013. Ad Hoc's sponsorship allows us for the first time to publish an advert for the Conference in Inside Housing magazine and the conference has also been promoted by button inserts in Inside Housing daily email alerts. Ad Hoc says that it's Europe's leading vacant property protection specialist, with 10 offices across the UK alone and a significant presence in Holland and Germany. Ad Hoc aims to help owners keep commercial and residential buildings safe and secure by offering vetted Property Guardians,...

Conference line-up confirmed

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April 22, 2013

The line-up for The Empty Homes Conferencce 2013 has now been confirmed. We'll be sending out the latest version of...

EDMO and empty homes survey

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April 11, 2013

A final-year student at Kingston University is writing a dissertation on EDMOs and empty homes and would greatly welcome responses...

Leeds Empties - the inside story

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April 8, 2013

The thinking behind the approach we’re developing through Leeds Empties is that complex social problems – such as bringing back into use long-term empty homes – require a range of creative solutions. You’ll all know that as empty homes practitioners. To make real progress, we need a range of different interventions, each helping to make progress on a particular aspect of the problem at hand. Our background isn’t in empty homes. Over the last few years we’ve offered support to people setting up and running social enterprises – and in 2012 we decided to change how we worked to focus...

NAO reports on New Homes Bonus

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March 27, 2013

The National Audit Office has produced a report on the New Homes Bonus. As might be expected the report focuses...

St David's Day bonus for Welsh authorities

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February 28, 2013

We’re very pleased to announce that, as of 1st March 2013, all 22 of the Welsh local authorities have joined the Empty Homes Network under a Collective Membership that will last through to March 2015. All employees of the Welsh councils will now be able to benefit from the premium members-only material available from the website, discounts on Conferences and training and so on. To help Welsh members get the most out of the website a “Welsh Authorities” group has been set up with exclusive access for Welsh authorities: documents, stories, events and forum posts that are specific to Wales...