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Labour’s EPC Rating Proposal: Energy Efficiency, Empty Properties, and Industry CollaborationLabour’s commitment to ensuring that both private and social rental properties meet a minimum Energy Per...

The Hidden Potential behind Empty Offices: the Search for Space in the Community Attic

What if empty office buildings weren't just abandoned, vacant spaces? What if they were actually valuable opportunities?Empty office buildings often carry negative connotations. They're perceived...

The Ultimate Guide to Unlocking Empty and Derelict Properties in the UK: brought to you by Land Attic

If you're a small property developer, building schemes of up to 50 units a year, empty and derelict properties might be the golden opportunities you were looking for. With the Empty Homes C...

How to track down the owner of an empty property

This blog explores some practical ways of tracking down the owners of those empty buildings you come across, helping you to turn them into your next project or business opportunity. That vacant...

Catastrophic fire destroys a huge part of our history!

Catastrophic fire destroys a huge part of our history The Hotspur Press sits on the corner of Cambridge Street and Whitworth Street in central Manchester, to the west of Oxford Road Station. ...

Why are there so many empty office blocks?

Five Ways Tower: From Landmark to Dereliction - What’s holding up its Revival?IntroductionLocated on a 2.1 acre plot at the junction of Frederick Road and Islington Row Middleway in central Birmingham...

How to find and develop empty properties

This guide walks you through the process of finding empty properties that are worth developing. That disused factory has been standing empty for five years.  Everyone drives past it. Nobod...

A Step by Step Guide to carrying out due diligence

Find your site by driving around and searching for it (time and cost), searching Google Streetview (out of date), or contacting agents (if you happen to be their favourite client). If this a...

How do you protect heritage whilst moving forward?

135 year old abandoned Victorian mill in NechellsLocated in Cato Street North, Nechells, an inner city ward of Birmingham, the Nechells Mill— known historically as Nechells Place Mill—...

What’s the best way to spot empty property development opportunities?

This guide outlines some proven methods for identifying vacant buildings with development potential, from on-the-ground searching to using digital tools and community insights. There are vacant b...