Motion on Empty Houses publishes probably the most authoritative information to empty properties knowledge

Annually Motion on Empty Houses analyses the Authorities’s official knowledge on long-term empty properties, producing the one complete evaluation of this knowledge. Our knowledge beneath is predicated on Authorities knowledge printed by DLUHC 8 Nov 2023.

TAKEAWAYS

Numbers of long-term empty properties rose but once more in 2023 by 12,556 (or 5%) to 261,189.

Lengthy-term empties at the moment are at their highest stage since 2011 (excepting 2020’s pandemic-related knowledge).

This knowledge exhibits empties are over 30% larger than when the final Nationwide Empty Houses Programme resulted in 2015.

OVERVIEW

See the place most properties are out of use long-term throughout the nation

A-Z

For an A to Z itemizing for all native council areas in England click on right here

LONDON

In 2023 long-term empty properties numbers rose in EVERY area (you possibly can see the total regional breakdown beneath). Right here we current the figures for London boroughs, the place our Housing Disaster is most acute.

FURTHER REGIONAL DATA:

CLICK HERE for Jap Area

CLICK HERE for East Midlands Area

CLICK HERE for London Area

CLICK HERE for North East Area

CLICK HERE for North West Area

CLICK HERE for South East Area

CLICK HERE for South West Area

CLICK HERE for West Midlands Area

CLICK HERE for Yorkshire and Humberside Area

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FURTHER READING

Annually Motion on Empty Houses analyses the Authorities’s official knowledge on long-term empty properties, producing the one complete evaluation of this knowledge.

We additionally periodically publish a extra detailed evaluation of how the figures are derived and what this tells us. That is printed as a report entitled ‘Empty Houses in England’

– the excellent 2019 version together with a broad dialogue of information sources, consistency and up to date tendencies will be downloaded right here

– A abstract model for 2020 trying on the impression of the pandemic is right here

Pandemic impression:

Our commentary on the Council Taxbase 2020 determine for Lengthy-term empty properties, which confirmed a fourth consecutive 12 months on 12 months rise by a large pandemic-impacted 42,540 to 268,385 is right here.