To ask you what you think about this cute flat I spotted for rent in North London?

[purplebush]

Isn't it lovely? And only £765 a month. BARGAIN!

They tidied it up beautifully for the photoshoot too.

www.primeukestates.co.uk/properties/riverside-road-london-n15/

😀😄😂

@clumsyduck

it's an illogical argument . Sure at an individual level you could advise someone they may have a better life out of London . But everyone can't move out of London

The argument reminds me of when people come on here fed up of being on a low income and people say " get a better job then " it's illogical as everyone can't be in high paying job same as everyone can't just up and leave London . It doesn't work like that

I agree with this.

And maybe people don't WANT to move out of London - or want to move IN. If everyone moved out (or didn't move in,) because they can't afford it, there would be no-one there.

I quite like London as there is lots to do and lots of opportunities there, but I cannot fathom for the life of me why the homes are so crazy expensive. I mean multiple tens of millions for the most expensive ones. And over a million for a 'normal' home in an average area.

Why?! It never used to be this way pre-1980's.....

the fact that no one bothered to tidy up for the photos speaks volumes! I mean theres a photo of an unmade bed FFS! I think you can do better

overnightangel you are assuming it is a matter of choice, and that everyone has the resources and opportunities to have those options. Rental places like this are basically exploiting people with fewer options

This is one up on a place in I looked at in Surrey in 2004 for the same price. It has the shower cubical next to the kitchen sink. I was expecting a baby at the time and it was the max we could afford needless to say the damp flat with one window we ended up finding seemed like heaven.

It's so sad that property is so expensive in London.

Oh I would’ve loved that when I was a young London renter. Rather that than a room in a shared house

I think what people on MN forget is a lot of the target market for places like that isn’t people like them, for whom it would be bloody tragic because they want a 3 bed semi, by students, starving artists, people just starting out in exciting careers. People who dreamed of making it in the big smoke

Wow. That makes me glad I left London 15 years ago. back then we rented a beautiful one bedroomed garden flat in Earlsfield for 180 quid a week IIRC. And we thought that was a bit steep!

And as for Oz prices, where I live (Perth) there are outer suburbs where you could certainly get two or three mortgages for three bedroomed houses for the same price But Perth is a lot cheaper than the East coast at the minute.

My son once paid £400 a month to share a room in a shared house, in West Hounslow. This is London

It is normal in London to accept a room in a shared house without even going to see it demand is so high. I almost rented a place in Paddington that was a very small kitchen with a bed in it (studio flat) and a tiny separate bathroom for £1500 a month.

Still, if people are happy to pay a fortune to be miserable and live like rats more fool them.

Perhaps I do it to be near my family, my friends, my whole support network, my community that I play an active part in, my job that I love? I’ve lived here my whole life.

I honestly think this idea that anyone who isn’t rich should leave the capital stinks. What do you want it to become, some kind of reverse ghetto?

They’re doing it to make it big and rich in the big smoke. Lots of them will
Make it and move out, lots won’t and move out anyway. They’re not the kind of places home grown londoners usually rent. Chill

Although it is shocking for the price the later posts have put it in perspective. I guess the equivalent years ago would have been a bedsit with a two ring electric job and a sink, with a shared bathroom down the corridor.

Thats a bargain for London . It has a garden too !!!!

@AltheaorDonna I mean this place is nice, but not exactly a mansion

m.realestate.com.au/property-house-wa-wembley-423611310

CBD property prices in somewhere like Sydney is crazy too.

@GrandTheftWalrus can we please see the 19,000 pound house please!!!

One of my favourite columns is London Rental Opportunity of the Week: www.vice.com/en_uk/topic/london-rental-opportunity-of-the-week

I was a student in London and had friends who lived in worst. Even the uni halls were incredibly grim. But it was the best option for my degree without having to move far from family. Sometimes ‘just move out of the south east’ really isn’t an option without having to abandon your industry and support network.

@joystir59 that’s not expensive. Hounslow is cheap for London. Most of my younger colleagues renting rooms in London are paying £700-900 a month.

I can't find it online. It was in the window of an estate agents.

"There’s no way there is room for a 49” tv in there. That box must belong to someone else"
That "box" is actually someone else's flat

Surely it's Tracy Emin's latest art installation and she's put it on that website for a laugh?

If it was, it would be a great indictment of the fucked-up housing situation in this country.

Oh it's a bed in a shed. I knew it would be grim before looking at it because of the price. You'd pay double that for an actual one bed flat even there in Tottenham.

I wonder if the poor soul that lives there was given a chance to tidy before the photos were taken and his/her space was plastered all over the web. I can't imagine that anybody 'enterprising' enough to view that as a let-able decent living space is a great landlord.

Haberpop I agree.

I feel sorry for the resident.
Did he/she even know?

Or maybe was given only a week to quit and didn't give a shit.

Either way I don't think it's something we should be mocking.

It's sad.

Oops I just realised I miscalculated! You could get one mortgage for a 3 bedroomed house in Perth's outer suburbia for that money, certainly not three. In Sydney you wouldn't get much at all.