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Changes will enable pensioners to buy their council home

Changes to the Tenant Purchase Scheme which will enable pensioners to buy their council home have been welcomed by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Donegal TD, Charlie McConalogue. He confirmed that the Minister for Housing, Local ...

30 Sept 2022 at 20:33

Local News

Changes will enable Donegal pensioners to buy council homes on income of €12,500

Approved changes to the Tenant Purchase Scheme will now enable Donegal pensioners to buy their council home, it has confirmed. The Department of Housing said the order and revised guidelines of the scheme were issued to all local authorities on ...

01 Oct 2022 at 13:33

Local News

Changes will enable Donegal pensioners to buy council homes on income of €12,500

01 Oct 2022 at 13:33

Quirky

Dog lover spends £4.5K in two months on Airbnb apartments and moves 15 times as she cannot find a London rental willing to take her pooch

A dog groomer who is so devoted to her rescue pooch that she spent £4,500 in two months on Airbnb apartments and moved 15 times as she could not find a London rental flat to accept him has been forced to abandon her hunt and move back in ...

01 Aug 2022 at 08:00

Personal Finance

44% of landlords ‘have supported tenants financially in past year’

More than two in five (44%) landlords say they have supported tenants financially in the past year, such as by reducing or pausing rent, a survey has found. Nearly three-quarters (74%) of landlords said they feel a responsibility to ...

25 May 2022 at 10:00

Local News

Council to test 1990s 'mica' houses before sales

Donegal County Council has agreed a protocol aimed at reducing the backlog of tenants wishing to buy council houses after purchases were suspended over 'mica'. As a result of the ongoing defective concrete blocks issue, the council ...

28 Apr 2022 at 17:33

Scotland

Labour MSP calls on ministers to introduce Scotland-wide rent freeze

The Scottish Government has “no excuses” for not bringing in a rent freeze for all tenants living in both private and socially rented accommodation, a Labour MSP has insisted. Mercedes Villalba is demanding action from ministers ...

02 Apr 2022 at 16:25

Carrick-on-Shannon

Leitrim County Council waiting for clarification on changes to tenant purchase scheme

Leitrim County Council is awaiting clarification on several points following changes in relation to the operation of the tenant purchase scheme which came to effect in Feburary this year. Cllr Padraig Fallon asked for an update ...

15 Sept 2022 at 20:33

Scotland

MSPs approve Bill on temporary freeze on rent and evictions

Emergency cost-of-living legislation to protect tenants from rent increases and evictions has been passed by MSPs at Holyrood. The approved Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) Bill will be the first bill passed by Holyrood to ...

06 Oct 2022 at 19:08

Proposed social rent cap could slow building safety works – housing associations

A proposed cap on social housing rents could lead to building safety works being delayed as income drops off, housing associations have warned. The rent ceilings being proposed by the Government “will lead to difficult ...

06 Oct 2022 at 20:46

Scotland

Landlords seek legal advice over Scottish Government rent freeze

A “coalition of landlords” is seeking legal advice over a Scottish Government move that has frozen rents and banned evictions until at least April next year. MSPs voted to back the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) ...

13 Oct 2022 at 13:30

Scotland

Three in 10 tenants struggling with rent before cost-of-living crisis – study

Some 30% of people who rent their homes were finding it difficult to pay their rent before the current cost of living crisis hit, research has found. Meanwhile, 36% said they had experienced some form of dispute ...

30 Sept 2022 at 01:01

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