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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Nick Kalms

How auction can turn probate problem properties into homes for living

London faces a hidden crisis of empty homes, not the high-end towers on the Thames, but ordinary family houses, ex-local authority flats, bungalows and large ageing properties that could be housing families today.

Tens of thousands of long-term empty or derelict homes sit unused across the capital, creating blight, tying up capital and putting pressure on already stretched boroughs.

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