Tiny London studio flat taken off market by council
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[QUOTE]A tiny studio flat that was being offered for rent for £737 per month in north London has been removed after pressure from Islington Council.
A picture of the room, which features a bed, wardrobe, kitchen units and a sink, was posted on social media as an example of the London housing market.
A spokesman said earlier this week that the council would be investigating whether the apartment was fit to rent.
Inspectors have now decided it cannot be marketed in its current state.
Cllr James Murray, Islington Council's executive member for housing, told Newsbeat: "This place is a shoebox, not a flat, so we're serving a prohibition order to stop it being rented out again.
On Wednesday, the landlord of the flat Andrew Panayi told the Guardian: "The property does have planning. It's been checked several times by the environmental health and the planning department. We have not subdivided units."
He blamed his estate agent, Relocate Me, for not choosing a photograph that did "justice" to the flat.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/27729033[/url]
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Can I get a source, want to link it to someone.
Ty.
i've always wanted to be able to cook a meal while laying in bed. they've got themselves a deal!
Looks like we know who to blame for creating the primordial ancestor of the WH40K Hive City.
Doesn't look THAT bad. Though the price is way overkill for this. Otherwise with some creative minimalism it could be a comfortable single person flat.
I like small and cozy, but that just looks depressing.
my bedroom is bigger than the entire property and i'm paying less than half of that
Well, the place is an accurate representation of the costs of living in London, and what you get for your money.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;45025762]Well, the place is an accurate representation of the costs of living in London, and what you get for your money.[/QUOTE]
lol, even the worst shitholes in India are at least half again as large as that flat in my experience, and I've seen a lot of places in my own country.
You'd be surprised what people pay in "landmark" cities.
I currently pay about $500/mo for a small 2 bedroom apartment. Crappy carpet, the kitchen is basically a side hallway so there isn't a lot of counterspace or room for a dishwasher, and the building is old but everything is generally well maintained with new tile floor in the kitchen, newer windows, etc. I live in the suburb off some random small city in the midwest US
Meanwhile, our friends who live in a suburb of Boston (not even boston itself) pay $1400/mo for a [I]smaller[/I] one bedroom (its still pretty sizable though). Granted the building is newer and they have a much nicer kitchen and stuff - but this is one of the cheapest they could get in the area. Downtown? Low/average quality properties cost over $2K-4K/mo for a single bedroom or a studio.
Shit is really inflated out near landmark cities. People pay for the privledge of being close to "culture" and a "world class city". For just $1400/mo where I live, that would get you rental on a HUGE home that is practically brand new.
The good news is that often times jobs will pay more or the better paying jobs are more numerous in these locations. I.E. the minimum wage near the Boston region is supposidly going to be going up to $15/hr late this year.
[QUOTE=KorJax;45025810]You'd be surprised what people pay in "landmark" cities.
I currently pay about $500/mo for a small 2 bedroom apartment. Crappy carpet, the kitchen is basically a side hallway so there isn't a lot of counterspace or room for a dishwasher, and the building is old but everything is generally well maintained with new tile floor in the kitchen, newer windows, etc. I live in the suburb off some random small city in the midwest US
Meanwhile, our friends who live in a suburb of Boston (not even boston itself) pay $1400/mo for a [I]smaller[/I] one bedroom (its still pretty sizable though). Granted the building is newer and they have a much nicer kitchen and stuff - but this is one of the cheapest they could get in the area. Downtown? Low/average quality properties cost over $2K-4K/mo for a single bedroom or a studio.
Shit is really inflated out near landmark cities. People pay for the privledge of being close to "culture" and a "world class city". For just $1400/mo where I live, that would get you rental on a HUGE home that is practically brand new.
The good news is that often times jobs will pay more or the better paying jobs are more numerous in these locations. I.E. the minimum wage near the Boston region is supposidly going to be going up to $15/hr late this year.[/QUOTE]
No, you're paying to not have extremely long commutes and being able to walk to places you need.
Apparently the average car costs 8 grand a year, so if you don't need a car, you can pay a couple hundred dollars a month more in rent just to have less commute.
I hate London.
looks bigger than Hong Kong apartments!
Since when is it the governments duty to tell people where they can and can not live? Jesus Christ, I know a good deal of people who would kill for an apartment like this.
That being said, I would literally commit suicide if I lived there.
If only it looked something like what this guy created in such a small place.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJkBlqLJLWA[/media]
It's because of things like these, that after bankers, landlords and estate agents are probably the most hated people in London, if not the country.
The London property bubble is a big problem, it's getting fucking ridiculous. As soon as I finish my degree I'm getting out of here.
That is not a suitable place for a human to live, I'm surprised it was approved in the first place. Fuck London, and fuck the housing market there.
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Looks like something I'd see in the Sims and something I could see being a fire hazard.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;45025731]Doesn't look THAT bad. Though the price is way overkill for this. Otherwise with some creative minimalism it could be a comfortable single person flat.[/QUOTE]
How the fuck is that a suitable place to live? Its attitudes like this that allow the London housing market to be in this state.
My bedroom is bigger than that flat. I pay £400 a month for a full house. There is barely enough room to walk in that flat, let alone live like a normal person.
[editline]7th June 2014[/editline]
You can't even open the cupboard all the way because of the bed for fuck's sake.
[QUOTE=Snapster;45026230]If only it looked something like what this guy created in such a small place.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJkBlqLJLWA[/media][/QUOTE]
That is amazing.
Is the toilet in the cupboard?
[QUOTE=Snapster;45026230]If only it looked something like what this guy created in such a small place.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJkBlqLJLWA[/media][/QUOTE]
I always wonder what these people do with their extra crap? Obviously there's the things like, they can't have a ton of books, or clothes, or any other random thing, and if they do, they need to lease storage somewhere. Then there is also the everyday stuff. They have to do grocery runs every couple of days at least because they can't store enough to go once every week or two. They can't stock up on tons of stuff with a long shelf life during sales. Hell, they have to take out the garbage and recycling often, while people like me just have a huge basket for paper, and a bin for plastics, and I just let it pile up in the garage. I only actually get rid of it every 2-3 weeks because I have no reason to go more often.
People like this practically work part time just running errands every day.
I mean, if you like living in a place like that, power to you, but I'd go insane in short order, and that's before considering the amount of annoyances related to daily upkeep.
Meanwhile there's 11 million empty homes in Europe.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;45026429]I always wonder what these people do with their extra crap? Obviously there's the things like, they can't have a ton of books, or clothes, or any other random thing, and if they do, they need to lease storage somewhere. Then there is also the everyday stuff. They have to do grocery runs every couple of days at least because they can't store enough to go once every week or two. They can't stock up on tons of stuff with a long shelf life during sales. Hell, they have to take out the garbage and recycling often, while people like me just have a huge basket for paper, and a bin for plastics, and I just let it pile up in the garage. I only actually get rid of it every 2-3 weeks because I have no reason to go more often.
People like this practically work part time just running errands every day.
I mean, if you like living in a place like that, power to you, but I'd go insane in short order, and that's before considering the amount of annoyances related to daily upkeep.[/QUOTE]
You literally wouldn't be able to live there after more than 6 months unless you're one of the preppy people who design places like these, and spend all day writing blog posts in a Starbucks.
Order things online and want to hold on to the box in case you need to send it back? Tough shit, the boxes take up too much space. Want to buy a new appliance? Tough shit, no room.
I'd rather work outside of the city and take a ~30% pay cut and live in a decent sized property than live in a squalid place like this - despite how many fancy design elements it might have.
Still not as bad as this one in Sydney
[img]http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2014/01/17/1226804/282112-6e248fd2-7f1a-11e3-897f-d21e3ddd1df9.jpg[/img]
Because what you really want in a home is to be able to watch the stove while you're shitting
It's one thing to live in awesome functional tiny apartments, like this guy.
[video=youtube;WB2-2j9e4co]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB2-2j9e4co[/video]
Besides, that apartment is larger than this one.
But it's just not possible to live in a room as small as that landlord was trying to push. Even the budget rooms in London uni halls tend to be larger.
[QUOTE=Snapster;45026230]If only it looked something like what this guy created in such a small place.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJkBlqLJLWA[/media][/QUOTE]
I would really love to live in that.
[QUOTE=godfatherk;45026451]Meanwhile there's 11 million empty homes in Europe.[/QUOTE]
The real problem is that England is so terribly planned and designed that properties like this start becoming the norm.
Even comparing a 'medium-sized' British house to a medium-sized American house makes me want to kill myself. And that's before taking in to account the price difference.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;45025860]No, you're paying to not have extremely long commutes and being able to walk to places you need.
Apparently the average car costs 8 grand a year, so if you don't need a car, you can pay a couple hundred dollars a month more i rent just to have less commute.[/QUOTE]
Except in places like boston, even the suburbs (which are like any other suburb: you NEED a car to get anywhere) are prohibtivly expensive.
The "not needing a car and having a short commute" only applies if you actually live actually downtown, and the rates for downtown living are more like $3K-6K/mo for a small apartment. Living a 40-60 minute drive from downtown knocks the prices down by half but you need a car and its still well over double the cost of living vs living at any other town/city that nobody remembers the name of. Trust me, owning a car is much much cheaper as someone who drives one to make a living than settling on paying quite literally thousands more per month in rent. You can easily get by with an older used car. I got mine for $2700 almost 2 years ago, probably needed to put about $1.25K into it since. Because I drive all the time for my job I go through a lot of gas, which ends up costing me around $140-$160/mo, so that would be much less if I didn't drive for my job. So my car costs me maybe (including gas and repairs and maintence) about $2300/yr to run it. But my job helps cover my gas costs so really its more like $800-$1k/yr.
If I had a newer car I was making monthly payments, I might not have a repair bill to worry about but I would have to tack on $100-$300/mo for those monthly payments depending on the car. Still way less than $8K for most cars.
But again, that thousands more per month can be worth it if it suits your lifestyle. It has its perks - you are close to town (even if its a 40 minute commute), if you live downtown then you can just walk everywhere which is a great experience, you probably have a really good decent paying job for living there, etc.
[QUOTE=w00tf1zh;45026204]Since when is it the governments duty to tell people where they can and can not live? Jesus Christ, I know a good deal of people who would kill for an apartment like this.
That being said, I would literally commit suicide if I lived there.[/QUOTE]
Because if they allow properties like this to be rented, then there is nothing stopping hundreds more landlords from slashing the size of their properties and instead turning them in to squalors like these for the same price.
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