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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Charlotte Duck

New scheme launches to pay Londoners up to £15k to rent out spare bedrooms

In the UK, it’s estimated that there are around 19.5 million empty bedrooms, and an innovative scheme has just been launched, aimed at helping cash-strapped London homeowners monetise their unused space.

Fintech company Moovable has created a ‘Life Boost’ product, which gives homeowners an up-front cash lump sum of between £3,000 and £15,000 in exchange for renting out one (or a maximum of two) of their spare rooms for between six to 24 months.

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