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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon English and Daniel O'Boyle

The great London renting rip-off — How prices have soared in a decade

Rents in some London boroughs have jumped by 50% in the last decade and could do so again in the next ten years, exclusive analysis for The Standard reveals.

The research will increase fears that the capital is becoming impossible to afford for all but the most privileged and that there will be a “brain drain” of talent away from London, especially among the young.

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