A new service which aims to help bring all of Liverpool’s 4,500 long-term empty homes back onto the market has launched.

Coming Home is aimed at property owners who require assistance renovating their empty houses to make them fit to live in again.

Ronnie Hughes of Coming Home, says: “We bring a great amount of experience and commitments to our work on people’s homes and, in the end want to get all of the 4,500 long-term empty homes in Liverpool ready to be lived in again.

“While working closely with Liverpool City Council’s empty homes team, we are not ourselves a public service. We’re a Liverpool enterprise and we want to help.”

The enterprise initiative works with the home owners to restore their property to a rentable standard and will also help them find tenants once the work has been completed.

Coming Home is currently seeking landlords in the North Liverpool area to work with and is aiming to take on “a relatively small number” of projects initially, before expanding to a citywide scale.

Ronnie adds: “You might have inherited the now empty home from a relative, or bought it yourself some years ago. Either way, in these difficult times, you don’t have the money right now to do what might be the relatively small amount of works needed to attract new tenants. If so, we might be able to help you out of your difficulty and find the new tenants for you as well.”

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