{
  "id": 5321902,
  "title": "UK homeowners: has the hot weather damaged your property?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/uk-homeowners-has-the-hot-weather-damaged-your-property",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-03T10:47:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/03/uk-homeowners-has-the-hot-weather-damaged-your-property"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Are you dealing with subsidence or other issues caused by the hot weather? During a dry spell, such as the successive heatwaves that affected some parts of the UK this year, houses built on clay-rich soil suffer as moisture is sucked away by trees and bushes. This causes the clay to shrink and foundations to drop, causing structural problems. We would like to speak to homeowners who are dealing…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}