I was poking about on Rightmove and found.........

[Pipbin]

I love looking on Rightmove for random stuff mainly tiny London flats.

Well I found this interesting bed
This teeny tiny flat

What stuff have you found?

[gutzgutz]

Who is paying those prices for the first two? I just don't understand it. I'd love to move back to London (born and bred left at 25) but I also love my big house in the Midlands, the short commute and the not so crazy rush rush rush. It helps I can visit family whenever I get a craving....

But someone must be paying, are they really steps on a housing ladder or just a bonkers investment?

[BYOSnowman]

MP's were buying them on expenses weren't they! guess that little bubble has burst!!

[OublietteBravo]

Almost £300k for a flat that is smaller than my kitchen

I have a 3 storey Victorian semi with 7 bedrooms that wasn't much more expensive than that (admittedly we bought it 3 years ago).

[sparechange]

Those tiny flats are bought by people who need to be in London a couple of nights a week.
A hotel room is going to be about £150 a night, and for £1200 a month/£300 a week, you can get a mortgage on that, and own something about the same size as a hotel room, but where you can store a few suits.
You don't get room service but you get to sell it on when you don't need it

Wouldn't be something I would ever do, but I can see why others might. ExH had a colleague who commutes from the Isle of Wight to London every week, stating in a little flat Monday-Thursday. Bonkers.

[lalalonglegs]

Oh my God, how can that Pimlico one even be legal? At least the Queens Pk flat could be extended into the garden theoretically but what could you possibly do n the Pimlico one other than stand up? You might as well buy a phone box with a camping stove in it.

[Lemonski]

"stylish open plan kitchen" - um the effort and imagination needed to write a full description and estate agents spiel for that Pimlico flat does make me smile!!