0 An unfurnished room, house, or other building has no furniture in it: --
unfurnished accommodation
This rather follows the discussion which we had many hours ago about the problem of what should be the appropriate rateable values for unfurnished tenancies.
I think that the tribunals today have the power to deal with unfurnished accommodation where the tenancies have a rateable value of under £40.
It becomes increasingly greater every year as more and more unfurnished tenancies move out of control.
Unfurnished accommodation in the private rented sector has shrunk to under 3 million tenancies.
These people are prevented by law from exacting scarcity rents for their unfurnished houses.
These figures relate to regulated unfurnished tenancies re-registered within three to four years of previous registration.
Simple to put furnished tenancies into the same category as unfurnished tenancies would cause more difficulties than it would solve.
But whereas the house-builder erects an edifice, a monument to his labour, by the time the cave is finished all that seems to have been created is an unfurnished volume.
