In this month’s Property Surveying Newsletter … we look at illegal subletting, discuss how to deal with messy neighbours and consider how to share your true feelings – eventually
The Property Market Monthly Fact File
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Holiday let platforms knowingly sell illegal sublets
Two holiday let platforms, AirBnB and Booking.com, have refused to cooperate with authorities that have requested the removal of illegally let properties.
Homes seized after tenant complaints
Legislation that has been in place for twenty years has been used to sort out the housing complaints of some of the tenants living in the London Borough of Merton.
Blocked up windows? That’s daylight robbery!
When looking at the outside of a historic property have you ever wondered why there sometimes appears to be a recess in the brickwork or rendering where a window opening would seemingly once have been located?
Millions of homes granted planning permission never built
The UK’s largest house builder completed just 14,000 homes in the year to June compared to 17,000 in the previous twelve months. We look at why so many properties granted planning permission never get built.
Could empty properties house the homeless?
One local authority was estimated to have had 557 homeless people in 2022, during any given night, half of whom were children. Homeless charity, Shelter, equated this to one in 415 local people. At the same time, an independent survey revealed that the area had over 500 empty properties.
The great indoors – children need to get back to nature to break “grass ceiling”
A recent survey has found that children are more likely to watch television or play video games than than they are to play outdoors, according to a survey by one of the UK’s largest house builders.
Home owners too busy to take pride in the outside of their home
You don’t usually have to look far to see neglected kerb sides, pavements and gardens, whether it be from overgrown weeds or garden plants or an accumulation of rubbish. The Environment Agency and local councils have certain powers to force property owners into action.
And finally …
Time capsule reveals donor’s true feelings
Anticipating the eventual demolition of the property he helped to fund, the unhappy donor decided to write down his true opinion of the building and conceal it within the structure during the build. The letter addressed “to those who find this note” has now been revealed.
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