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Northern Ireland Office

Answer

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many properties there are in the Housing Executive's Purpose Built Commercial Property Portfolio; what their value is; how many are (a) vacant, (b) let on a five year lease and (c) let on less than a five year lease; how many were acquired in each of the last five years; at what cost; how many were sold in each of the last 10 years; and what the total income from such sales was in each of those years. [216844] Mr. Spellar: There are 433 properties in the Housing Executive's Purpose Built Commercial Property Portfolio and are valued at £14,514,920.00. Of these 24 are vacant, 318 are let on a five year or more lease and 84 are let on less than a five year lease (seven of which have no lease as they are being used by the Housing Executive). No properties have been acquired in the last five years. During the last 10 years the numbers sold with the annual income is as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number sold (unit) Annual income (£) 2002 1 9,000.00 2001 1 25,000.00 2000 11 460,000.00 1999 8 150,000.00 1998 1 14,000.00 1997 1 5,000.00 1996 None 0 1995 None 0 1994 1 6,000.00 1993 None 0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

216844; 431 c567-8W;431 c563-4W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Business premises Empty property Leasehold Income Sales Rents Northern Ireland Housing Executive

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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