{"id":74046,"date":"2015-04-18T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-the-right-to-buy-council-homes-is-all-wrong\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T16:04:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:04:04","slug":"why-the-right-to-buy-council-homes-is-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-the-right-to-buy-council-homes-is-all-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the right to buy council homes is all wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nProposals to revive the right-to-buy scheme piles even more pressure on the country\u2019s dwindling supply of social housingThere is a council flat in a posh part of London where the buyer has exercised his (or her, we don\u2019t know the name) right to buy. The price? The agent who arranged the sale said it was worth around \u00a31.1m. We don\u2019t know the final price paid but it was supported by a \u00a3100,000 giveaway by the taxpayer.The agent was from Righttobuy.coop, one of the country\u2019s biggest brokers for council house sell-offs and responsible for about a fifth of the market. But is this the sort of taxpayer giveaway the government should be indulging at a time when the waiting list for social housing is more than 3 million people? Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Proposals to revive the right-to-buy scheme piles even more pressure on the country\u2019s dwindling supply...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-jgi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":90630,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tauranga-city-council-to-buy-bella-vista-homes\/","url_meta":{"origin":74046,"position":0},"title":"Tauranga City Council to buy Bella Vista homes","date":"June 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Tauranga councillors have voted in principle to buy the 21 Bella Vista Homes which were part of the failed subdivision at The Lakes.The mayor and council staff informed the homeowners of the decision on Wednesday evening.Mayor...\r \r Source : nzherald.co.nz\/Property\r Read more...Tauranga City Council to buy Bella Vista homes","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4307,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/right-to-buy-puts-40-of-ex-council-homes-in-private-rental-mps-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":74046,"position":1},"title":"Right to buy puts 40% of ex-council homes in private rental – MPs' report","date":"February 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Forcing councils to sell off homes and extending right to buy has profited private landlords, Commons\u2019 committee findsForty per cent of ex-council flats sold through right to buy are being rented out more expensively by private landlords, the Commons communities and local government select committee has found. 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