About £600 a month. That’s what I was paying back in 2020 for a room in a three-bedroom flat in Queen’s Road Peckham (Zone 2, no Tube). Admittedly, it didn’t have a living room and the bathroom was permanently green with mould – but on the plus side I had a personal balcony (read: awkward triangle of cement).
Once, I even woke up to my housemate traipsing back through the balcony door, having used my room as a pathway whilst I was dead to the world. I can tell you now that this sort of unwelcome early-hours intrusion is not something you forget quickly – though I had to forgive him as the poor guy had “nowhere else to go to smoke his zoot”.
