The government could rent unoccupied houses.

It has been released that ministers will be enforcing a plan to seize any house that has been unoccupied for more than six months, then to make them available to rent out to the general public.

This now means that the council may now demand that a house be placed on the market if the owner can no longer give a valid legal reason for it remaining unoccupied. Government officials are now keen to place pressure on councils to apply these new rules on unoccupied homeowners.

This new plan brought forward known as Empty Home Dwelling Orders, can grant local authorities the management of the property, although this does not grant them legal ownership.

Although this sounds like a new plan from the government to help ease the financial crisis it has actually been in force since 2006 although it has only been enforced 20 times. Although the government will now step up there efforts in a bid to boost the ever dwindling housing market.

Unfortunately this crackdown is likely to affect most those who have just suffered a family bereavement or those struggling to sell during the recession.

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