Research from Direct Line Home Insurance has shown that in the last five years more than four million people in the UK have suffered damage to their homes due to escaped water from a neighbour's property – 1.5 million have even had this issue more than once!
I think this is probably one of the first years I can remember where we have seen a slowdown in housing market activity, yet we have not seen the normal ‘panic’ of house prices crashing in the media, bar the odd report...
