£1 houses in East Durham?

[poppet2 13]

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11807177.Horden_residents_plan_to_take_over_running_of_dozens_of_empty_homes/

 

This is what happens when companies neglect the repairs and fail to invest in their properties.

[tzijlstra 11]

Is it?

 

Nothing to do with desirability, availability and economy than?

 

You can find places like this in the villages around Rotherham and Donny as well. Just reiterates that there is no housing crisis in the North of the country, just in London.

[ricgem2002 11]

Is it?

 

Nothing to do with desirability, availability and economy than?

 

You can find places like this in the villages around Rotherham and Donny as well. Just reiterates that there is no housing crisis in the North of the country, just in London.

what going for a pound ?

[poppet2 13]

Is it?

 

Nothing to do with desirability, availability and economy than?

 

You can find places like this in the villages around Rotherham and Donny as well. Just reiterates that there is no housing crisis in the North of the country, just in London.

 

Oh yes, and the bedroom tax, aka spare room subsidy.

[tzijlstra 11]

what going for a pound ?

 

Boarded up and not selling. Not sure if there still are, but I've certainly seen whole roads with similar steel shutters south of Rotherham.

 

Oh yes, and the bedroom tax, aka spare room subsidy.

 

So if they can't let them to people dependent on social housing, does that mean that nobody else wants to live there?

[poppet2 13]

 

So if they can't let them to people dependent on social housing, does that mean that nobody else wants to live there?

 

That's probably why they now wish to sell them.

 

---------- Post added 25-02-2015 at 22:30 ----------

 

Boarded up and not selling. Not sure if there still are, but I've certainly seen whole roads with similar steel shutters south of Rotherham.

 

Really, news to me, whereabouts exactly?

 

Maybe I should change the thread title.

Edited February 25, 2015 by poppet2

[BED HED 10]

Why not sell them to Poundland?

[poppet2 13]

Why not sell them to Poundland?

 

Very good. :hihi:

 

---------- Post added 26-02-2015 at 08:46 ----------

 

Boarded up and not selling.

So if they can't let them to people dependent on social housing, does that mean that nobody else wants to live there?

 

They have now decided to sell them on the open market.

 

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/1-homes-to-go-on-sale-in-horden-and-blackhall-1-7111889

[alchresearch 214]

Nothing new:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-28641045

[tzijlstra 11]

Very good. :hihi:

 

---------- Post added 26-02-2015 at 08:46 ----------

 

 

They have now decided to sell them on the open market.

 

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/1-homes-to-go-on-sale-in-horden-and-blackhall-1-7111889

 

Right, so there you go: A social landlord (ie. providing housing for the most vulnerable) has to sell 100+ homes because they can't rent them out/they are not deemed fit for purpose anymore.

 

This then relates to: Desirability, nobody wants to live there. Availability, nobody is forced to live there. Economy, the landlord can not afford to have the houses sitting around unoccupied and has to sell.

 

Again, it reiterates that there is no housing crisis here. If these had been in Islington they'd have been snapped up for 300K and up. If the housing association had a need to restructure these homes to make them more desirable, they would have found the money to do so.

[geared 303]

They often get into the situation where they have all this housing stock, a bunch of it needs a major scheme of improvements and they just don't have the cash to do any of the work.

 

The outlying areas get left out as they're less desirable and soon enough you end up in a situation like this.

[BED HED 10]

Maybe they could sell them at the local pub, free pint with every purchase