Meet The Property Entrepreneurs Solving The Dilemma Of Derelict Homes

Just over a decade ago, TV property expert George Clarke presented The Great British Property Scandal, a series highlighting the scourge of hundreds of thousands of long-term, empty, crumbling and decrepit houses across the U.K.’s towns and cities.

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. An estimated 600,000 homes are now vacant, compounding Britain’s ongoing housing crisis.

The TV program shocked viewers but piqued the interest of property entrepreneurs Nick Kalms and Ben Radstone. Genuinely concerned at the absence of a national strategy for dealing with the problem,

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