FEARS that part of Jersey’s housing market is being ‘snapped up’ by overseas investors are ‘unfounded’, a local property lawyer has said.
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Waterfront: La Frégate Café will be replaced, say the JDC
ADDITIONAL cafés – to replace La Frégate – will form part of the major Waterfront redevelopment plans, while the Cineworld building will remain until an alternative film venue is ‘up and running’, the managing director of the JDC has said.
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Electoral reform could ‘engage younger people’
PRESSING ahead with electoral reform could help to engage younger people in politics, a States Senator has said.
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South Hill flats will be sold to Islanders
NONE of the 150 homes being proposed at South Hill will be made available through the Affordable Housing Gateway, the Treasury Minister has said, but foreign buy-to-let investors are to be ‘precluded’ from the development.
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Education Scrutiny head keen to take on ministerial position
JERSEY’S children ‘cannot afford to lose another nine months’ with limited ministerial oversight, a Scrutiny head has said as he confirmed he would be standing for the vacant Children’s and Education Minister role.
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Progress Party announces policies before 2022 election
JERSEY’S newest political party has announced ‘bold’ policies on housing and population, a year before the Island goes to the polls.
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Tenants Forum hail landlord licensing vote
RENTERS will be given an extra layer of protection by the introduction of a landlords’ licensing scheme, the Jersey Tenants Forum has said after the move was given the go-ahead by the States Assembly.
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Deputy: Good relations with France to return after fishing dispute
THERE is no reason why Jersey’s good relations with its Norman and Breton neighbours cannot continue once the fishing dispute is resolved, Deputy Montfort Tadier has said.
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Far-reaching plans lodged to fix ‘broken’ housing market
LANDLORDS may be forced to lease residential properties for an open-ended term and be banned from implementing above-inflation rent increases if a proposition lodged by the former Housing Minister succeeds.
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Politicians seek answers as ‘at least one’ States Member guilty of overcharging tenant
THE Housing Minister and one of his predecessors have expressed concern following revelations that at least one current States Member was among a group of landlords found to have overcharged tenants for electricity.
