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Across the UK, tens of thousands of commercial properties sit empty at any given time. This guide will help you spot them.

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