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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jem Bartholomew

London’s smallest microflat sells for 80% above asking price

The Clapton flat’s kitchen-dining-living-bedroom.
The Clapton flat’s kitchen-dining-living-bedroom. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

A 7-square-metre microflat, cramming in a bed, toilet, shower, sink and a microwave tucked under the pillow, has sold for 80% above its minimum listing price at £90,000.

The microflat, located in a Victorian conversion in Lower Clapton, east London, is believed to be the capital’s smallest-ever property, marking a turn towards tiny homes driven by the UK’s housing crisis of soaring rent and property prices.

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