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Compulsory purchasing should not be allowed, that's just communist state control. How long should a property be empty before you take it (and at what price)? You imply that grabbing properties that are empty more than 6 months are game. So, the long term sick, the people who work / live abroad, people executing wills, landlords undertaking major repairs to properties are all under pressure to complete before your 6 month state purchasing?
It's not right Bazza, your communistic tendencies are overriding you sense of fair play. The people of the UK would like more ability to run there own assets without the state imposing upon them rules about 6 months without occupancy.
By all means have a 1948 style social housing scheme. Just not the Nissan Huts of my youth. Rent caps. Hmm, I'm not so sure. I can see people removing their properties from rental if a far left government pushed rent control too far. Open ended tenancy. Nice idea but what about when a landlord dies? Can everything they held be sold within the 6 month deadline? Removal of right to buy. Deny tenants a chance to own. Don't like that. Tweak the discounts / timescales for sure but I don't like denying peole a chance to improve their position in life. Ban off site purchase / land banking. You do love deny, remove, ban don't you? An increasing tax scheme of longer held land would be better surely?
You seem attuned to some fairly nasty methods when dealing with all landowners. They're not all bastards you know? I don't really want to live in the kind of communist state that you espouse.
And there you go again using 700,000 as a figure because it suits your left wing stance.
Try some latest figures.
"There are over a quarter of a million long-term empty residential properties across Britain according to averages from differing studies including government numbers and independent findings. The most recent government statistics (November 2023), reported that there were 261,189 long-term empty properties in England. That figure represents a rise of 12,556 homes compared to 2022, up 5% annually and 16% since before the pandemic in 2019."
Would you take these empty properties from their owners to rehouse the homeless? All property is theft, your motto eh?
Holiday homes gone. Little old people in care, homes gone. Landlords homes gone. Tenants on the street.
I don't think Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner or George Galloway would even attempt what you appear to want.
You think there's a vast swathe of property being hoarded right now? Nasty foreigners collecting UK property left, right and centre no doubt.
I've an idea, remove all property from those foreign owners and see where that gets you. I bet you won't have much luck but you will get some I guess. Do that and those foreigners who may very well run their businesses from the UK will likely pack their bags and take their companies elsewhere. Rising unemployment and property getting repossessed.
Maybe that's what you want? Removal of assets from the foreigners settled here by decree. Why don't you revoke any UK passports at the same time?
Hang on, you've not swapped your political allegience from the Communists to Reform UK have you?
What is your plan to get your hands on all this property?
P.S. "More recent data suggests there are around 29.9 million dwellings in the UK, made up of roughly 25 million dwellings in England, 1.5 million dwellings in Wales, 2.67 million dwellings in Scotland, and 822,083 in Northern Ireland."
261,189 / 29.9 million = less than 1% of housing in the UK is long term unoccupied.
0.87% actually.
How much lower do you want it? What is your plan to achieve it? Will all the UK politicians with 2 properties be obliged to comply?
No. Most of these unused properties are short term empty whilst one set of tenants leave and the properties are advertised as being available. Others are empty whilst refurbishment takes place after one set of tenants move out and painting and repairs are booked to be done. Others are holiday rentals only and therefore not available for long term rent or sale.
Longer term empty properties are often because they are holiday homes held by people with multiple properties and these people do not wish to have strangers making use of their homes. Another reason is illness resulting in the owner needing long term medical care.
There are lots of reasons for short and long term empty properties but you, being a leftie, only seek out a simple, nebulous, disparaging reason that pours scorn on property owners and the Conservative government without considering their deeper reasons for occassional emptiness.
If it was true. Homes in the UK that are long term empty (more than 6 months) are only 248,000 and many of them will be in a terrible state of neglect. In other words unrentable.
According to the lunchtime news, and assuming I heard it correctly, this gang of 5 Bulgarians have been at it since 2016. The authorities have recovered £54 million but think there are hundreds of millions still to be recovered.
'Grifting nutters' is quite a harsh term to apply to Reform UK members. I can only name a handful of Reform UK people, and some like Ben Habib and Laurence Jarvis always seemed pretty decent to me.
Been waiting for any political party to proclaim that they would be extremely tough on drug dealers. For 25 years now I've never seen a party mention the drugs problem in this country at all. It won't be any different this time around, I'm sure. So, sod the lot of them. They're all a waste of time.
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