Swapping bricks and mortar for boats and water may seem a pretty extreme way to handle the soaring cost of home ownership.

Pete Barnett, from River and Canal Rescue, says it's rare for a narrowboat to sink like this A narrowboat that sank on a canal, blocking it for days, has been stripped of everything on board ...

The property, in Exmouth Road, is close to the area’s famous street market and less than a mile away from Walthamstow village ...