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There are approximately 23 million dwellings in England and some 27 million across the UK. In 2009, about 30% of homes were owned outright by their occupants, and a further 40% were owner-occupied on a mortgage. About 18% are social housing of some kind, and the remaining 12% are privately rented. [ 2]
Homes England – GOV.UK. Homes England is the non-departmental public body that funds new affordable housing in England. It was founded on 1 January 2018 to replace the Homes and Communities Agency ( HCA ). HCA in turn was established by the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 as one of the successor bodies to the Housing Corporation, and became ...
The Right to Buy scheme is a policy in the United Kingdom, with the exception of Scotland since 1 August 2016 and Wales from 26 January 2019, which gives secure tenants of councils and some housing associations the legal right to buy, at a large discount, the council house they are living in. [1] [2] [3] There is also a Right to Acquire for assured tenants of housing association dwellings ...
Martin Roberts (presenter) Martin Leyland Roberts (born 20 July 1963) is an English television presenter, property expert, investor, entrepreneur and author. He presents the BBC One property auction series Homes Under the Hammer with co-presenters Martel Maxwell (since 2016) and Dion Dublin, although his co-presenter for many years was Lucy ...
BBC Woodlands. White City, London. BBC Enterprises (later BBC Worldwide) Former home to the BBC's commercial services, such as programme sales, videos, DVDs, LPs, CDs, books, magazine, computer software and merchandising. BBC White City (White City One, Media Centre, Energy Centre, Garden House) White City, London.
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced by BBC News for BBC Radio 4 , as well as solely ...
Despite an added 244,000 homes to England's housing stock in 2019/20, the notion that an increased supply of housing will improve affordability has been challenged: the UK Housing Review (September 2017) states, "Indeed as the evidence to the Redfern Review from Oxford Economics reminds us, it is unlikely to bring house prices down except in the very long term and with sustained high output of ...
The Statement of Rates Act 1919 required any owner in England and Wales who received rent that included rates to show the amount in the rent book. The equivalent Scottish act is the House Letting and Rating (Scotland) Act 1920 . Further extensions and amendments to the 1915 Act were made by the Acts of 1917, 1918 and two in 1919.