Many of the homes, often in a poor state, have stood empty for many years, sometimes because there were no relatives to inherit them or they cannot be traced. Housing improvement officers worked ...

The number of vacant houses in Japan has topped nine million. Government figures released on Tuesday show the number of empty houses, as of October 2023, was up by more than half a million since ...

Britain’s landlord crackdown has driven the number of long-term empty homes to a record high as buy-to-let investors quit, new analysis shows. One in 94 homes in England last year had been ...