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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Noah Vickers

‘Scandal’: Empty homes in London at their highest level since 2010

The rising number of empty homes in London has been dubbed a “scandal”, with the figure now at its highest since 2010.

The latest data shows that some 34,327 properties in the capital were “long-term vacant”, meaning that they had not been lived in for more than six months and were “substantially unfurnished”, as of March 31, 2022.

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