UK Landlord Forum / Life

QuoteAmong proposals by Halifax is the idea of using the tax system to penalise those who keep homes empty for long periods, while rewarding those who renovate such properties provided they sell the property or find a tenant in a short period of time.

Such measures would help make available more houses for sale in the UK, which could produce more bargains for investors and first-time buyers.

Last month, the bank said that its won figures and those from the government indicated that there were 290,000 empty homes in England alone.

While I understand why people would want to penalise those with empty homes, i'm not in favour of the idea at all. If you own a property, you should be able to do what you want with it...

The government just wants to get itself out of a potentualy sticky situ that it has been getting itself into for years now. Imo

Yup.

The penality would be out of order.

This house i mentioned on these here boards not so long ago would fall into that, refurb and then left for 2 years, i must say that the drive has been dug up and relayed in the last 2 weeks, so i can only thing that planning didnt pass it due to drains, drainage or something like that.  But it is still empty !!!

Property stalker! They have a name for people like you, "psycho"

Just keeping my ear to the ground, naaa what i mean guv