Have you heard the one about the young family who are served a Section 21 notice and have to leave their home in two months? Or what about the one where the tenant is unhappily co-habiting with mould because they’ve got a ‘good deal’? Or the one where an £1,800 per month studio with a bed next to the fridge goes for over the asking price in a Hunger Games frenzy? No punchline: looking for somewhere to live in London is brutal right now.
Demand is high, supply is low, spirits lower. We’re in the grip of a housing crisis, and while there are shards of light (Generation Rent is doing important campaign work, last week the Skipton Building Society announced plans to launch a 100 per cent mortgage aimed at would-be first-time buyers and Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for rent freezes), what do you do right here and now? These are the new London living tribes...
