4 September, 2014
3 September, 2014
New guidance advises that, from 1 December, landlords in relevant areas face fine of £3,000 if they rent out properties to those who do no have 'the right to rent'.
3 September, 2014
New report from Age UK, 'Housing in Later Life', calls on the Government to ensure that all new homes are built to the lifetime homes standard so they can be easily adapted as people age.
3 September, 2014
Homes and Communities Agency release statistics from an annual online survey completed by all English private registered providers.
3 September, 2014
New DCLG statistics for period 8 October 2013 to 30 June 2014 also show that 79 per cent were purchases by first time buyers.
2 September, 2014
Findings of first interim report include that 'performance in year one of the programme, against the five outcomes and in the context of the targets set at the outset, has been variable'.
1 September, 2014
29 August, 2014
New reports set out how Scotland’s social landlords are performing against the Scottish Social Housing Charter in the areas tenants told the Regulator matter most: homes and rents, quality and maintenance, neighbourhoods, tenant satisfaction and value for money.
29 August, 2014
Local Government Ombudsman also finds that the couple did not receive adequate housing advice and their housing application was not prioritised in accordance with the council's housing policy, and in addition the council continued to charge council tax on the couple's former home even though an exemption should have been applied.
22 August, 2014
New report from the Policy Exchange says that the results of decades of neglect and ghettoization have led to acute social problems that are entrenched and generational.
21 August, 2014
New statistics also show that London Boroughs accounted for 33 per cent of sales, the highest percentage since statistics became available.
18 August, 2014
View sought on modernising the repair and maintenance of fixed equipment and end-of-tenancy compensation in England.
15 August, 2014
Fact that working households who are ‘housing pinched’ and in the bottom half of the income distribution have so little left over, in cash terms, to pay for other things, is a real cause for concern, says Resolution Foundation.
14 August, 2014
Figures in today's publication include that, in the first quarter of 2014, there were 12,540 local authority homelessness acceptances.
14 August, 2014
Local Government Ombudsman recommends that Fylde Borough Council apologise to each resident of a housing complex for failing to ensure that the association who ran the complex consulted them properly on disposing of their homes to a developer.
12 August, 2014
Figures include that, in 2012-13, there were 4.1m dwellings in England owned leasehold, of which 2.4m were in the owner occupied sector and 1.7m privately owned but let in the private rented sector.
12 August, 2014
New DCLG guidance to social landlords on capping service charges where improvement works are funded by government.
8 August, 2014
New report from the National Housing Federation - based on discussions with the DWP and housing associations in areas where universal credit has been introduced - that provides information to help other housing association in their own preparations for the new benefit, and makes recommendations to the DWP for improvements that need to be made to the system.
7 August, 2014
New regulations that prescribe the procedure for the making, variation and deletion of site rules, prescribe the matters to which site rules may and may not relate, and grant appeal rights in relation to these matters, under section 52 of the Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013.
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