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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Patrick McKeever

Property spotters: developers will pay cash for reports of empty homes if they can bring them back into use

Look out for overgrown gardens if you want to spot a potentially empty property

(Picture: PA)

Have you seen a building that looks a bit off? Maybe it’s got broken windows, or the lights are always off? It turns out that just spotting and reporting one of these buildings could earn you up to £10,000.

Government data shows the UK currently has 238,306 homes in England classed as “long-term empty”, meaning they have been uninhabited for more than six months. In all, over 600,000 homes are currently vacant.

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