4 December, 2014
4 December, 2014
Housing Minister Margaret Burgess said, 'These new homes will not only give families ownership of affordable homes where they can be safe and warm, but they will boost the economy by creating a demand for small, local contractors to build homes'.
3 December, 2014
Today's Autumn Statement 2014 (paragraph 2.121 onwards) sets out reforms including that portion of the transaction value up to £125,000 is charged at 0 per cent; portion between £125,001 and £250,000 is charged at 2 per cent; and portion between £250,001and £925,000 is charged at 5 per cent.
2 December, 2014
Response to consultation, published today, makes recommendations aimed at improving prospective purchasers’ awareness of leaseholders’ obligations; disclosure, transparency and communication between property managers and leaseholders; and leaseholders’ access to appropriate forms of redress.
1 December, 2014
BBC highlights new requirement for landlords to check immigration status of tenants.
1 December, 2014
New report from Leonard Cheshire Disability calls on councils to take steps to ensure houses in their area are suitable for all the people who live there, including disabled people, and on government to insist that all housing developers make future homes disabled-friendly.
28 November, 2014
28 November, 2014
New statistics from DCLG also show that 94 per cent of completions are outside London and 81 per cent of sales are to first-time buyers.
26 November, 2014
Policy and legislative priorities include an independent commission to report on fairer alternatives to the council tax by Autumn 2015; and more power for carers over the services that affect them through the Carers Bill.
25 November, 2014
Bill, which is intended to protect tenants against retaliatory eviction, is expected to have its second reading debate on 28 November 2014.
20 November, 2014
New amending regulations that alter the requirements to be met in order to bring an appeal under regulation 10 of the Mobile Homes (Site Rules) (England) Regulations 2014 to make it consistent with the wording contained within the prescribed form in Schedule 2 to the Regulations, which also sets out the requirements in order to bring an appeal.
20 November, 2014
New statistics also show that the average receipt per dwelling in the second quarter of 2014/2015 was £74,000 compared to £63,000 in the same quarter of 2013/2014.
19 November, 2014
New report also finds that benefit sanctions are leading to increase in homelessness and that 58 per cent of under 25s seeking help with homelessness have one or more other problem such as mental health, learning disability, substance misuse or offending behaviour.
19 November, 2014
Charities say that the outcome 'has the potential to address a longstanding injustice that has condemned many people to the streets after being turned away from help by their council.'
19 November, 2014
Report highlights cuts in spending on care and housing as cuts to funding from government lead to over a quarter of single tier and county councils making unplanned reductions in service spend to deliver their 2013-2014 budgets.
18 November, 2014
Briefing gives a brief history of housing mobility schemes and policy developments in this area.
18 November, 2014
Briefing sets out new obligations for private sector landlords and letting agents, specifically how and when to carry out checks, reporting to the Home Office and avoiding discrimination and considers concerns from landlord associations.
13 November, 2014
New Ministry of Justice statistics report that this is the second consecutive quarterly decline when compared to the same period the previous year, although landlord repossessions by county court bailiffs, at 11,100 for the quarter, are at their highest in the series of statistics which covers the period from 2000.
13 November, 2014
Welsh government's Houses into Homes scheme, which provides interest free loans to owners of properties which have been empty for more than six months in order to bring the properties back into use for sale or rent, shows a 99 per cent increase on 2012/2013.
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