Empty homes

Empty homes represent waste, financial expense and missed opportunity. They can blight communities, attract vandals and squatters and tie up the resources of local authorities and the emergency services. Bringing empty homes back into use is a sustainable way to meet future housing demand and helps to alleviate pressure to develop greenfield sites.

This section offers advice and information to property owners and empty property practitioners on a range of help available to overcome problems preventing homes from being occupied. It may also be a useful resource for people who want to develop empty homes either as an investment opportunity or to live in themselves.

If you have any queries on empty homes that are not answered here please email: empty.homes@communities.gsi.gov.uk.

The Empty Homes Agency website (external link) also offers useful information.