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Crunch leaves homes vacant.


AFFORDABLE homes in Northumberland are not being taken up as the recession continues to bite.

Nine developments in Alnwick are vacant, only three have sold and most of the rest have at least two or more properties left on the market.

At the Clive Gardens site in the town, only three of the seven two-bedroom apartments have been sold.

In Rothbury only one of the five affordable properties at the Mart Field development has been bought. The rest are currently being marketed.

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 development half of the 18 properties are still to be sold.

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 have been bought and one of the three at the Malt-house development is still remaining.

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 said: "We are going to have to look at a shared ownership scheme which takes pressure off finding the deposit.

"In the current economic climate the issue of access to mortgages for affordable homes is still a problem in the district."

The council is to look at the possibility of homes being offered on a shared ownership scheme in the new unitary authority.

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Publication:Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Date:Jan 30, 2009
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