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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Emma Magnus

Working from home: Londoners faced with soaring costs are renting out homes as work and meeting spaces

Sue and David Black’s house in Barnet is available for team days and meetings, as well as photo and film shoots

(Picture: Sue Black/Peerspace)

With companies downsizing their offices — or doing away with them altogether — in favour of remote working, enterprising Londoners are starting to bridge that gap by renting out their homes as work or meeting spaces.

Peerspace, a rental platform with more than 1,000 hosts in London, reported a 173 per cent uplift in bookings in the first half of this year and a 50 per cent increase in searches for offsite meeting spaces since January.

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