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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Isolde Walters

London rental crisis — inside the SpareRoom hellscape

Mouldy flats, crippling rent increases, bidding wars. It feels like not a day goes by when we’re not bombarded with the depressing reality of renting in the capital in 2023.

New research this week, sadly, offers little respite here. According to new data collected by flatshare website SpareRoom, a room in a shared house or flat in the capital will set renters back on average a record-setting £971 a month. 

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