Sentence examples for more empty properties from inspiring English sources

"Such stealth taxes hindered regeneration and encouraged more empty properties.

The more empty properties there are, the more it hypes up the overall house price level".

Housing Would release Greater London Authority-owned land and give private owners and councils incentives to bring more than 80,000 empty properties into use for rented social housing.

There are more than 5,000 empty properties in Northern Ireland - spaces left vacant when the huge housing bubble of the last decade burst spectacularly in 2008.

But he also zeroed in on crime in the inner city and unveiled a plan to encourage both private developers and local councils to do up more than 80,000 currently empty properties for 'social rented accommodation'.

Today there are more than 16,000 of these empty properties, each stocked with lucrative goodies that can be scrapped, such as aluminum siding, metal-laden appliances, copper wire, and plumbing, all just waiting to be ripped out of the walls.

It expects to raise half of this by removing exemptions on empty properties and charging more when a home has been empty for more than two years.

The homeless will suffer further, homeowners will get no more protection than they have now and derelict empty properties will stay that way".

With homelessness rates rising and the number of empty properties currently in the region of more than 930,000 according to the Empty Homes Agency, we must ask: who is this law protecting?

He urged landlords to "become more flexible" and accept monthly rent payments rather than risk having empty properties on which they have to continue paying business rates.

"Far from being an 'incentive' to encourage the use of empty properties, for many firms this tax rise feels more like a stick than a carrot.