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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
William Hosie

Plotting, subterfuge and fallouts: how Gen Z landlords are causing social havoc with mates rates rent

Renting a room for £500 per month in a well-maintained period property in Zone 2? There there, dearie, put down the skinny jeans: you have not entered a portal back to London c. 2002.

You've probably just met someone renting off a property fairy godmother, one who dispenses great deals on comfortable lodgings to the nice, middle-class young things propping up London's low-wage jobs market.

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