A Preston house is ringed with CCTV yet crumbling, with a tree growing through the roof. The story behind it: a restrictive trust buried in a family Will.

When Sally spotted a long-term empty property near her home in Darlington, she snapped a photo and sent the address to Empty Property Hunters — never expecting it would help pay for a new car. Here's how one simple report led to a perfectly timed Hunter's reward.

Looking for an easy student side hustle that doesn't eat into your timetable? One University of Nottingham student has earned £650 simply by spotting long-term empty properties on his normal daily walk — no job, no start-up costs, and no fixed hours required. Here's how it works, and how you could spot one too.

When an estate owner passed away, the inheritance spread across three countries and three languages — and squatters moved into the empty South London property. Here's how patient, cross-border coordination brought it back from the brink.

What happens when an empty property's biggest obstacle isn't legal disputes or missing heirs, but simply not having a passport or driving licence? A Birmingham case shows how identification alone can stall a home for years.

An empty Leicester property sits caught in limbo, tied up by a Will's trust arrangement meant to protect a remarried spouse whie preserving inheritance for the children – but who's responsible when nobody fulfils it?

Behind boarded windows and overgrown gardens often lies a complicated story: addiction, vulnerable occupants, absent ownership. We look at how empty homes become linked to anti-social behaviour – and how tracing ownership can help bring them back into safe, lawful use.

Tracing the records behind a vacant Yorkshire property, our research team uncovered a tale spanning British India, university lecture halls, and wartime romance – a reminder that the histories behind empty homes are often far richer than they first appear.

At Empty Property Hunters, we often say every empty home has a story. Some are straightforward. Others… take you across continents.

There are 542,276 empty homes in England right now. That's the 2025 figure from the Council Taxbase statistics, and it's gone up for the fourth year running. When you add in second homes and unoccupied exemptions, the total tips past a million. About 4% of all housing stock, sitting there doing nothing. You've probably walked past a few this week without clocking it. Empty properties don't look the way most people picture them. There's no graffiti, no plywood over the windows