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

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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/

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But clearly something needs to be done about the housing market. But what!!!

My very nice and very small one bed flat costs £1100 plus all bills. I don’t get a balcony, garden (even communal) or car parking space for that. I’m lucky that I can do a job that pays enough for it. And my job is really london only. I know people qualified in my field that struggle to find work in other places of the country and I am unqualified. To say Londoners don’t know any different if offensive and ignorant. Of course I could live and work elsewhere but I couldn’t do the job I do and therefore probably wouldn’t be any better off as other jobs I could do would pay an awful lot less than I’m on now. London is a wonderful place to live for many reasons, a small and very expensive flat is the price I pay for that. I’ll try not to feel disappointed that there’s a gorgeous little house for rent in Ipswich at the moment that would be a dream for me 😩

Licensing and regulating landlords like they are doing in Wales with Rent Smart WAles..
Anyway it will spread to England soon, they always try out new policy in Wales first to see how it goes.

I really believe that we have to fight against the normalisation of this kind of accommodation. Clearly both the landlord and the estate agent have no worries about advertising it which says a lot. I really don't care who would expect to live in that type of housing. It isn't safe, whatever your race, income, nationality or status. We have to work towards providing decent accommodation for everybody in the UK.

My very nice and very small one bed flat costs £1100 plus all bills.

Jesus, that's insane to me. We own a two-bed terrace with a garden and our mortgage is less than £300 a month. Yes, our salaries are much lower than they would be in London, but our outgoings are also much, much smaller. Mortgage + bills for two adults comes to maybe £700 total, and between us we bring home about £2500 a month. We might earn more in a city, but no way would have this amount of disposable income.

Neither of us work longer than 40 hours a week either. DP left school at 16 and went into a trade, and I work in retail. Both on just above minimum wage.

Lol i dont think the existing tenant wants to leave or they don't want to share 🤣🤣🤣

probably they will just take the existing tenant's stuff and throw it into a skip. That is the kind of people you will be dealing with.

Living without housemates in north London? After a good scrub that is a bargain tbf

My mates pay between 650-950 a month for a bedroom in a share house in SW London

It looks bad because there is just no storage for all those loose objects. If the enterprising owner would just put up a couple of cupboards - presuming the walls could take it - all that stuff would be disappeared. I thank the goddesses daily that I own my own place, but if I was still renting I'd have a serious look at this, get it cleaned up and think it was better than sharing a room with three others in bunk beds for £100 a week plus, each. Or a tent on Tottenham Marsh.
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A house near me went on sale and their pictures were similar ...

Agencies are unregulated so don't be surprised that this happen s. The law they are breaking is advertising it for rent without an epc. There will be many other illegals as this is obviously a bed in a shed.

It’s so sad somebody will actually need to rent this, how can they call this a ‘flat’

It's let through a full-sized agency so I may drop them a query about heating and the epc - there are radiators. And i'm tempted to wander round and have a look, it's only five minutes away by their estimate of walking speeds. The river is always good to visit too.
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To those of you shocked by this, there really are thousands of 'unofficial' HMOs where a shared house will have ten or twelve people sharing, for at least £100pw for a shared room. Cash rent collected weekly. Many are here for a year or two and sending most of their money home. Next door to a house that cost £750k with a naice family.
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It makes me so sad to see people loving like this. Something has gone very very wrong when you can ask £750/month for a barely liveable property. People of all income brackets live in London you need your shop workers, teachers, nhs workers as well as your rich they need homes.

I live in Perth Australia and the people saying they could pay three mortgages on that are talking total bollocks, in case anyone was busy filling out visa applications!

That’s London for you

Absolutely wetting myself at the poster who said you'd be able to lay three mortgages in Australia for that!!! We're about to pay a million dollars for a very ordinary two bedroom flat! Monthly mortgage will be more than 4K - that's above £2000 a month. Really not sure where you're living but I'd hazard a guess it's not Sydney or Melbourne...

There are laws to stop this, and laws that could shut down illegal hmo properties. There is even some enforcement..

Pay crooks and they keep committing crimes. As an ex Londoner when it was 40% of income for an unheated bed sit - I feel pity for all those having to live in the place .

" That’s London for you "

yes the London rental market is hard, but if we just shrug and say 'oh well that's London for you' then these crooks get away with it.
as SpecialSubject said, there are laws against slum landlords. The problem as i see it (same with my landlord) is that these types pick their tenants carefully. eg ones that dont speak English very well and have no idea of statutory rights that tenants might have.

We should never be complacent and say 'that's London for you.' It's unacceptable wherever it is.

I am saving and saving and saving so that I can get some work done to make my house luxurious and nicely 'finished'. It will be about 120,000 to get the level of finish I'm after. During the long, long winter that we emerged from only on Thursday, I'm thinking of moving to Alicante when I retire. I could get a beautiful 2 bed apartment for the price of what I'd spend doing up my own house, and the level of housing stock available to rent in my city is so low that I could rent my shabby 3 bed terrace out for 1,200 pm easily. I could fly home once a month at least. I just crave a level of habitation that I cannot afford in my own city (and that's not even London). I agree with LARLARLAND, London is so desirable that you're going to end up with vulnerable people on low or even average wages living in shockingly substandard accommodation if people just shrug and say ''well it's London!'''

correct , fourfriedchickens, clueless tenants are easy meat for crooked landlords. People need to get informed about their rights. How to rent is on gov?uk. Trouble is, a legislation cockup means good landlords can't hand it over unti l move in day and slumlords won't do it.

London people need to spread the word! Starve the crooks?