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The lacklustre pace of new builds is often cited as a cause of increasingly unaffordable housing and exorbitant rents, but over £200billion worth of liveable property sits unused in England alone.

According to the government’s figures, loss of private tenancy—including through the landlord selling or re-letting the property or increasing the rent—was the largest single cause of homelessness in the first three months of the year, affecting 39 percent more households than the year before.

With second homes flooding the UK holiday rental market, look beyond Airbnb and you’ll find more charming, and charitable, places to stay

Over the past six years, the number of long-term empty properties has surged by 24 per cent, prompting housing experts to call for stronger political action.

Homeless charity Crisis says thousands of people stuck in unsuitable temporary accommodation could be given a home if politicians took stronger action

OPINION: We need to start seriously considering a tax on empty houses.

BUYING up long vacant properties and re-selling them at auction is one of the ways Bradford Council is attempting to fill the 3,400 empty homes in…

Ahead of Scottish Housing Day, Chris Carroll shares his journey to becoming a co-ordinator - housing policy and strategy at South Ayrshire Council. My housing career started by chance actually. I left school at 18, with reasonable grades but no inclination for Uni or further studies at that tim

Housing affordability is a concern for both renters and home owners. Last year, one in four rental households spent more than 40% of their disposable income on housing costs, compared with one in five households that were paying a mortgage.

New Zealand needs to follow international precedent and make it expensive for investors to keep properties empty.