‘I would sell it for £1 if I could. It’s like being in prison’: MARK PALMER lays bare the true scale of the UK’s unsellable homes crisis – from retirees who can’t downsize to the flat owners stuck in their starter properties

Kate Williams has reached boiling point – and it has nothing to do with the summer’s relentless heatwaves.

Her husband died at the start of the year after suffering from severe dementia, leaving her alone in their five-bedroom detached home on the Northamptonshire/Lincolnshire border, near the town of Stamford.

‘After a few months, I realised that the best thing was to put the house on the market and start again in some ways,’ says Mrs Williams, 67, who recently retired as a military tailor.

She has two children, one living in Australia, the other in the Isle of Man, and is keen to

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