In addition to the Government’s proposals to allow councils to charge full council tax on second homes, other Liberal Democrat MPs and I have tabled an amendment to the Local Government Finance Bill to give councils the discretion to introduce a Second Home Premium. Second home owners often ask why they should be ‘punished’ in

Owners of second homes are to lose council tax discounts in a major shake-up to be announced by ministers.

Cornwall has become the first county in the country to effectively ban second home owners from voting amid fears holidaymakers have swung its elections in the past.

According to analysis from LSL Property Services, house prices have increased by just 11pc between 2006 and 2011, which means that the actual worth of the average home has gone down. This is because inflation has increased by 17pc in the same period, while salary growth is up 15pc. For home owners in many parts

Home owners with streams or rivers running through their gardens are to be encouraged to build controversial hydropower turbines to generate their own electricity by the government which is to cut red tape that can block such developments.

High street banks would pledge to increase lending to small businesses and home owners by more than £200 billion under the terms of a secret deal that would pave the way for them to pay out billions of pounds worth of bonuses. Sigh. As a broad brush thing, there’s two types of banking. There’s commercial

Hundreds of thousands of second-home owners could lose a council tax discount worth hundreds of pounds per year under a government review.

Home owners are to lose the right to public funds to fight legal battles under major cuts to the Legal Aid budget.

After tightening their criteria during the credit crisis, banks are becoming even stricter about lending. They are imposing tougher rules because of fears that higher unemployment will result in more home owners defaulting on loans. How excellent! After all, the crisis was (how much is arguable, but at least in

I’ve just done my first post for the new media watch site Express Watch UK. It’s about some immigrants and home owners getting scammed by dodgy estate agent. The Express blames the immigrants, naturally.