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Impact of the RTB nationally
Councils in property ‘hotspots’ across England could be made to sell huge numbers of homes to fund the extension of Right to Buy, while…
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RTB outstrips social rent
The number of social rented homes sold under Right to Buy annually has now outstripped the number built, new analysis suggests. In inside Housing…
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CIH consider rent reduction and RTB impacts
The social housing rent reduction will make it impossible for some councils to fund planned Right to Buy replacement properties, the Chartered Institute of…
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Minister requests housing to champion the RTB as HCA threaten
Brandon Lewis is to call on housing associations to ‘become the champions of aspiration’ and support the extension of the Right to Buy. In…
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RTB meeting with minister
Ministers opened high-level talks with the sector this week on the Right to Buy extension, as housing associations made the receipt of full compensation…
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Right to Buy
Our friends at Anthony Collins Solicitors have a word for the CLG minister, base don his speech on 26th May: “In announcing the Government’s…
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Wrong to Buy or Right to Buy?
Civil servants have blocked the release of a secret document detailing the economic consequences of extending the Right to Buy to housing association tenants.…
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Councils struggling to replace homes sold under RTB
Councils are struggling to replace homes sold under the right to buy scheme, according to a new survey carried out by the Chartered Institute…
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Changes in right to buy and acquire on 6th April 2015
Discount for the Right to Buy and Preserved Right to Buy has changed according to our friends at Anthony Collins Solicitors. They say: Following…
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33,000 homes list to RTB since 2012
The country has lost 33,000 of its social homes to the controversial right to buy (RtB) scheme since the coalition ‘reinvigorated’ the policy in…
