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Respectfully as a born and bred Londoner, these prices are delusional and ridiculous! They know who they're targeting, not one of these were worth more than £1800 especially not in Hackney of all places, just 10 years ago these flats were £1000 a month. There's no reason it should more than double in that time, except for persons who are duped by "locations" when 15yrs ago these areas were literally the ghetto of London!
The rooms and windows all look so small and she's saying they're spacious! Flats have been subdivided since I rented in London. I had crummy places, but they were a reasonable size and in Queens Park and maida Vale.
Don’t see why people have a problem with market rent. The market is different from a decade ago. There is a well documented housing shortage. If there are renters willing to pay the asked rent, why would the landlords be considered greedy and disgraceful? This attitude is really baffling.
Loved this. I think its absolutely insane that these post codes now are an option!! Hackney was an absolute no go zone when I was growing up born 1990. xxx
TH-cam recommended this video to me today and you got a sub from me! 😍 I appreciated jumping right in, a brief background/context, all the bits overlaid on the screen, and the concise recap of each apartment. QUITE a satisfying video.
OMG I am SO nosy and love looking at different homes and styles! Plus there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the tiny a valuation of your current property! It seems to make you appreciate it more also! We live in a culture of bigger and better, but the grass isn’t always greener on the other side!
30 years ago I lived in London and had 1 bedroom apartment in a beautiful historic house that was split into 1/2 beds apartments and it was £600 a month, which was on the higher end for a rental. It was beautiful but I moved out of London when I started a family and bought a bigger house. My best friend still lives in London, she bought a Victorian terraced house on one wage. Crazy how expensive it is now, even her children can’t afford to leave home and I’m just talking about renting, forget buying!
Exciting! I found you through your apartment hunting video 2 years ago so really enjoyed seeing a refreshed version! Glad you are happy with staying in your current flat 🩵
ah! so glad you found your way here and i'm very excited to share an updated 2024 version of that video haha ✨ how do you feel it compares to 2022? i feel the prices just keep going up!
The second place isn’t a “loft”. It’s a space where you put your junk! The place in Cambridge is priced right and quite nice! Ghettos in every major city all over,are being fixed up,painted,polished,plant some greenery,then raise the rent! Nice to see these flats,but I’m glad you guys just stayed where you were living and happy😊
Calling things huge and massive when they are pokey holes is WILD! none of the flats wer me worth what they are asking for. £2600 for a pokey loft is insane.
the sole reason these prices are so ridiculous and quite frankly pathetic is because idiots keep paying them..... how a normal every day person or persons are to afford anywhere to live on a regular job/income is beyond me... no wonder we have a housing crisis.... nothing but pure greed and profiteering .....
Hi Georgie, thanks so much for a great video! It was cool to see so many places all around London. I'll be house-hunting there in a couple of weeks so it was really valuable, thank you!
I'm glad you're staying inside the same flat here in London! The prices here have skyrocketed here in London over the years and I hope the British government will pay attention to us for building more affordable housing here now instead of later.
thank you, i'm excited to be staying ✨ agreed, the cost of rent in london is mad and unfortunately i'm part of the problem living here and paying its exorbitant rates. affordable rent is necessary.
Here in the USA when the government builds affordable housing a lot of the time it's really shoddy. I think the better solution is to rehab existing buildings (with good bones), revitalize maybe formerly industrial locations that have been abandoned.
I'm looking into moving back to London after almost 2 years away so this came at the right time. But I'm just not willing to pay £2k to live by myself so I guess it's back to flat shares :D
The place you visited where someone was letting the room out through airbnb - I didn't even realise that was allowed for a rented flat? I'm torn myself at the moment as reaching the age (52) that I need to get back on property ladder after 3 year hiatus off it, and also the appeal to buy and let out the spare room is a big thing, so I'm surprised to hear that people are doing it through rentals anyway. I totally get where you're coming from with choosing to use that extra £500 for travel..... is absolutely the reason I would rent out a spare room..... ! to be London based, but travel lots is living the dream. Apologies for long message, loved the vlog.... and saw your previous one when you were flat hunting last time
thank you so much for your comment! glad you like the video 🤗 oh good shout on the flat she was airbnb'ing - i should clarify that the person living in there was the current owner 🙈
Lifelong Londoner here. It's absolutely wild to me how much rents have skyrocketed. Of course the gentrification of working class areas plays a massive part, as does decades of failure to build enough homes for people (affordable ones, anyway - 'luxury' apartment buildings everywhere, and shared ownership schemes in poorly made apartments with rising service charges, leaving people trapped unable to afford or sell them - and a massive lack of social housing...) but also it's just indicative of how exploitative the housing market is as a whole. £2500 for a 2 bedroom flat! Lawd. Landlords are taking people for a ride. Glad you got to stay in a flat you already like, anyway!
Lifelong Londoner here too and I agree. It's obscene how greedy landlords and greedy letting agents are taking advantage of the housing crisis. They must look at us and see 'mug' on our forehead - and we know it, but have no choice. And the whole leasehold system for purchasing is just horrendous. I'm glad it's becoming more widely known about now as it needs to be abolished. The whole housing system needs some drastic action to cool it down but no government will do it.
@@yogajaxx8299 it’s not greedy landlords, actually it costs more to buy a property than renting it, landlords also pay very high taxes. I was looking into that and it seems that I would be losing money if I bought and rented out a property. It’s the fact that there are not enough properties and England is the most densely populated country in Europe. It can feel like they are ripping you off but then why don’t you buy a property instead of renting it?
Just from looking at these huge storage areas and massive kitchens I get the feeling huge and massive mean something different in London than they do in the US. 😉
At theses ridiculous prices, the day will come when most people will be moving into van life, tiny owned homes or narrow boats or even tents on the street. The rules and regulations are making the rental market increasingly prohibited for both tenants and land land lords.
I loved the 5th apartment actually and I already started furnishing it in my head lol (Though I don’t like the orange in the bathroom) But that price is crazy for that size 🥶🥶🥶
Very interesting to see these flats! Love the old brick ones. The old ones always have these very narrow corridors and stairs :) But I will never understand the need of carpet flooring in Britain. I'm amazed you were allowed to film and post these as people are still living in them.
London is cheaper than Dublin!😮 Those are really nice flats. But still looking at them they seem pricey for the space. Rental market is crazy everywhere now.
This was interesting.Why do they have 2 bathrooms in tiny flats,is that a his & hers room,rather unnessesary and also small bathrooms are better cos our flat has a big bathroom(what do you need the space for)
thank you! i also love the little duplexes 🥰 great question - I use a mix of Zoopla, Right Move and Open Rent when looking (and Spare Room if looking for roomates) ✨
If you love Hackney, you could also consider Wanstead, Forest Gate or go south of the river, to Southwark (all have excellent open spaces - Wanstead flats, Southwark Park, and are convenient for access to central London!)😊😊😊
@abeerali7834 Fulham is great!!! (I went to school there LOL), but a lot more expensive than Hackney (1 br flat in Fulham £299k to £1.1m, Hackney £275-800k source Foxtons)👍👍👍
@ WOW! Things have certainly changed. I left London in 2014 and didn’t update my real estate info 😅 Sold my family’s flat in Kensington. Maintenance issues and leaks occurred every month. Old buildings, high prices 🙈
Thank you for taking us through your journey. I'm in the process of starting my journey for house hunting v soon. What resources would you recommend I use to find listings and book appointments?
no worries, thanks for watching!! I used zoopla, rightmove and open rent (also spareroom if you're looking for room mates) Hope this helps and all the best with your journey 🩵
For comparison, I live in Bangkok Thailand, where I pay 232 GBP per month for a 535 sq/ft (50 sq/m) 1 bedroom apartment. The building has a gym, swimming pool, dentist, 2 full-service laundries, Pilates studio and a hair salon.
I've seen a lot of those listings or been around where those listings are. I pay 1k for one room in a 4 bedroom flat on a council estate in hackney. The size is okay but it still holds the council house infrastructure and vibration. There is an inefficiency when it comes to living in council houses.. I hope not to have to pay 1k after this lease is up to live in another council building..
I liked #3 and #6. I'm curious about what is considered spacious. A number of the ones you said were spacious were 500 to 600 square foot range. That seemed smallish to me. I used to live in a one bedroom that was 850 square foot here in Washington, DC and my current two bedroom is 1,200 square feet. I'm thinking that in London the range of square footage must be relatively smaller.
yes, those ones were lovely! it's a great question and you're right, the square footage in london is small and for the price we could afford, looking at zone 2 properties, these small flats "felt" very spacious relative to the price haha! thanks for watching!
It strikes me that the UK is the reverse of the US. In the UK everything outside the flat looks old, and everything inside the flat is modern. In the US, the world outside looks modern but inside, we love our antiques and distressed cabinetry and floors, etc!
As an Aussie, I much prefer the style of flats in the UK. Often with the cutest little heritage details. Many old buildings in the UK, which I love, have just so much character and funny little quirks around every corner. And to be honest, the history of Australia and the US is virtually non existent compared to the UK and Europe with its stunning old buildings. ❤
Hi ! Are all those apartment furnished ? Or is it not a thing in the Uk ? And with this price, does it include like electricity, water, all this, or you have to add it on top of it? And how much is it usually?
hello! most of these apartments were unfurnished as we had our own furniture that we want to keep but getting furnished apartments is a thing in london :) the price is just rent and you pay water, gas, electricity and/or council bills on top of that! those differ a lot depending on where you live but I give a breakdown of my utility expenses in my "what i spend in a week" video - hope that helps!
I'm a born and bred Londoner who was born in hackney, and genuinely think that I was born and lived in the building of the first property you showed for the early part of my life 😂
I can’t get over how many properties show a toilet that was exposed, with both lids up. Who doesn’t put the seat down when the loo is right beside the hand basin and their TOOTHBRUSH. Gross!
Gosh. You are being robbed that is for sure just because you want to live near central London? When I lived in South London and owned my own flat, my commute to central London from East Dulwich (my office was in Grosvenor Square at that time) took me 1.5 hours each way on the bus. Then my office moved to Chancery Lane so I could walk to the station where I got the train to High Holborn. My journey came down to about 40 min. These areas you are looking at can be really rough, though they have been "gentrified" in later years (where we lived in East Dulwich has been gentrified too) We eventually moved out of London down to the south west where we bought a house for less than the amount we sold our flat for. We both kept doing the same jobs we had done in London, except my commute was 15 mins and my husband's was 25 mins. When you are young, living in London seems really important for various reasons. But other cities have just as much going on, and have cheaper accommodation. My parents had moved from South London down to the south coast when I was at school. I could not wait to get back to London and did so when I was 24. By the time I was 26 I had bought my own flat. For me, London was everything and I could never envisage wanting to leave it again. Six years later I was really ready to leave. I had bought my flat while I was still single, then got married and wanted to get out and leave that rat race behind because I realised that London wasn't everything and I could live a much better life elsewhere. My husband and I carried on doing the same work, except down on the Southwest Coast. Note: Flats number 3 or number 10 were the best and I think you should have really thought hard about either of those.
Ridiculous prices, we pay 1300 for semi detached 4 bed house with extension and field size garden with woods in the back and in one of the best areas in the city.
As someone who lives in 100sqm apartment with a garden for 1100€ in the west of Germany those prices are definitely high for me. And why are those leases so short time?
i completely agree, having to pack everything up, move it around and re settle in a new space, that definitely weighed on my mind too! looking forward to those getaways heheh 🏝️ thanks for watching 🩵
haha this is my language to describe the space just outside the flat that might have been either the flats open car space or maybe for everyone in the mews but because it's directly in front of the flat's front door, you could unofficially set up a little table and chairs similar to what the neighbours had done and kind of claim that space :)
But New York is even more expensive . Or are you comparing a town in Arkansas to one of the most famous global cities in the world? You can go up to Scotland and it’s 4-5 times cheaper.
I would, move out of London. The prices are ridiculous. I understand why people move to Manchester or Leeds and commute by fast train when absolutely necessary. Working from home gives you so many more options. You could be buying a lovely apartment up North for a lot less than you are paying in rent.
46 qm for 2400£. Plus electricity, gas, water, wifi... That's insanity. How do people afford this rents? How can you survive if you're a cashier, bus driver, waitress etc? That's absolutely ridiculous.
At the risk of depressing you, I am about to buy a 4bed spacious double fronted HOUSE around 2000sqft for £250.000...which if you can afford 2400per MONTH in rent you can easily afford to buy...but the house isn't in London (which for me is a bonus) and has a sea view
And? That proves nothing. For 250k in some other countries you can buy almost a mansion with stables. Location is everything. In Thailand you can buy a house with an infinite swimming pool for that price.
@@dtulip1 because this is about London and we talk about London prices. Everybody knows that London is expensive and everybody knows that you can buy a house in Buckwaterville for 250k but it doesn’t change anything. You think you found a deal of the lifetime? Or that people will move now to your town?
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Respectfully as a born and bred Londoner, these prices are delusional and ridiculous! They know who they're targeting, not one of these were worth more than £1800 especially not in Hackney of all places, just 10 years ago these flats were £1000 a month. There's no reason it should more than double in that time, except for persons who are duped by "locations" when 15yrs ago these areas were literally the ghetto of London!
Hackney was a dump 20 years ago and it’s still a dump…
The rooms and windows all look so small and she's saying they're spacious! Flats have been subdivided since I rented in London. I had crummy places, but they were a reasonable size and in Queens Park and maida Vale.
Well said. These Landlords are disgraceful 😡
Greed, pure greed the prices the landlords charge, but they know folk will pay it.
Don’t see why people have a problem with market rent. The market is different from a decade ago. There is a well documented housing shortage. If there are renters willing to pay the asked rent, why would the landlords be considered greedy and disgraceful? This attitude is really baffling.
It’s fun seeing what the flats are like in London.
agreed! thanks for watching 🩵
Loved this. I think its absolutely insane that these post codes now are an option!! Hackney was an absolute no go zone when I was growing up born 1990. xxx
oh wow
I was apartment hunting the same time as you, and I literally saw the same apartment 9!!! I went back to check my photos, and yep, exact same flat!
no way! what a coincidence !! how did you like apartment 9? and how did the rest of your apartment hunting experience go?
TH-cam recommended this video to me today and you got a sub from me! 😍 I appreciated jumping right in, a brief background/context, all the bits overlaid on the screen, and the concise recap of each apartment. QUITE a satisfying video.
so glad you enjoyed it and thanks for subscribing 🩵
OMG I am SO nosy and love looking at different homes and styles! Plus there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the tiny a valuation of your current property! It seems to make you appreciate it more also! We live in a culture of bigger and better, but the grass isn’t always greener on the other side!
Nr 3 was beautiful. So spacious, base floor, nice big windows, off to the secluded side with the private courtyard... a winner to me!
yes, it was a beauty! thanks for watching 🩵
30 years ago I lived in London and had 1 bedroom apartment in a beautiful historic house that was split into 1/2 beds apartments and it was £600 a month, which was on the higher end for a rental. It was beautiful but I moved out of London when I started a family and bought a bigger house.
My best friend still lives in London, she bought a Victorian terraced house on one wage. Crazy how expensive it is now, even her children can’t afford to leave home and I’m just talking about renting, forget buying!
Exciting! I found you through your apartment hunting video 2 years ago so really enjoyed seeing a refreshed version! Glad you are happy with staying in your current flat 🩵
ah! so glad you found your way here and i'm very excited to share an updated 2024 version of that video haha ✨ how do you feel it compares to 2022? i feel the prices just keep going up!
The second place isn’t a “loft”. It’s a space where you put your junk!
The place in Cambridge is priced right and quite nice!
Ghettos in every major city all over,are being fixed up,painted,polished,plant some greenery,then raise the rent! Nice to see these flats,but I’m glad you guys just stayed where you were living and happy😊
yes, glad to be staying put for now too :)
apartment 7 is my personal fave but you're right, it's a bit pricey 💸
haha yes, it had a lot going for it and it was soooooo nicely decorated
Calling things huge and massive when they are pokey holes is WILD! none of the flats wer me worth what they are asking for.
£2600 for a pokey loft is insane.
the sole reason these prices are so ridiculous and quite frankly pathetic is because idiots keep paying them..... how a normal every day person or persons are to afford anywhere to live on a regular job/income is beyond me... no wonder we have a housing crisis.... nothing but pure greed and profiteering .....
Hi Georgie, thanks so much for a great video! It was cool to see so many places all around London. I'll be house-hunting there in a couple of weeks so it was really valuable, thank you!
thank you so much, I'm glad it was helpful! all the best for your house hunting journey 🥰
I was brought up in Homerton, it is so different now. Couldn’t wait to move away. Now if I was a young professional I’d love to move back
Personally , i just fell in love with Apartment number 6 . It is soo pretty and cozy. I wanna live there😂❤
love that! the balcony definitely had me haha!
I love the orange bathroom ❤😂
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I'm glad you're staying inside the same flat here in London! The prices here have skyrocketed here in London over the years and I hope the British government will pay attention to us for building more affordable housing here now instead of later.
thank you, i'm excited to be staying ✨ agreed, the cost of rent in london is mad and unfortunately i'm part of the problem living here and paying its exorbitant rates. affordable rent is necessary.
Here in the USA when the government builds affordable housing a lot of the time it's really shoddy. I think the better solution is to rehab existing buildings (with good bones), revitalize maybe formerly industrial locations that have been abandoned.
I'm looking into moving back to London after almost 2 years away so this came at the right time. But I'm just not willing to pay £2k to live by myself so I guess it's back to flat shares :D
of course, it's such a big chunk of money! all the best with your flat hunting process and welcome back to london!!
Omg my fav series is back!!!
Made my day georgia!!
oh, I'm so glad !!!! thanks for tuning in 🩵
The place you visited where someone was letting the room out through airbnb - I didn't even realise that was allowed for a rented flat? I'm torn myself at the moment as reaching the age (52) that I need to get back on property ladder after 3 year hiatus off it, and also the appeal to buy and let out the spare room is a big thing, so I'm surprised to hear that people are doing it through rentals anyway. I totally get where you're coming from with choosing to use that extra £500 for travel..... is absolutely the reason I would rent out a spare room..... ! to be London based, but travel lots is living the dream. Apologies for long message, loved the vlog.... and saw your previous one when you were flat hunting last time
thank you so much for your comment! glad you like the video 🤗 oh good shout on the flat she was airbnb'ing - i should clarify that the person living in there was the current owner 🙈
@@georgiadoust ah well she was allowed then 🤣
@@KarenThomson-yg6tw 🤭
Lifelong Londoner here. It's absolutely wild to me how much rents have skyrocketed. Of course the gentrification of working class areas plays a massive part, as does decades of failure to build enough homes for people (affordable ones, anyway - 'luxury' apartment buildings everywhere, and shared ownership schemes in poorly made apartments with rising service charges, leaving people trapped unable to afford or sell them - and a massive lack of social housing...) but also it's just indicative of how exploitative the housing market is as a whole. £2500 for a 2 bedroom flat! Lawd. Landlords are taking people for a ride.
Glad you got to stay in a flat you already like, anyway!
It’s not landlords, if you buy that flat the monthly mortgage is going to be even more.
Lifelong Londoner here too and I agree. It's obscene how greedy landlords and greedy letting agents are taking advantage of the housing crisis. They must look at us and see 'mug' on our forehead - and we know it, but have no choice. And the whole leasehold system for purchasing is just horrendous. I'm glad it's becoming more widely known about now as it needs to be abolished. The whole housing system needs some drastic action to cool it down but no government will do it.
@@yogajaxx8299 it’s not greedy landlords, actually it costs more to buy a property than renting it, landlords also pay very high taxes. I was looking into that and it seems that I would be losing money if I bought and rented out a property. It’s the fact that there are not enough properties and England is the most densely populated country in Europe. It can feel like they are ripping you off but then why don’t you buy a property instead of renting it?
Just from looking at these huge storage areas and massive kitchens I get the feeling huge and massive mean something different in London than they do in the US. 😉
😂
At theses ridiculous prices, the day will come when most people will be moving into van life, tiny owned homes or narrow boats or even tents on the street. The rules and regulations are making the rental market increasingly prohibited for both tenants and land land lords.
My first flat in London, off London Fields was……gbp 680 a month. We didn’t know lucky we were at the time.
so good! what a time haha 😌
I loved the 5th apartment actually and I already started furnishing it in my head lol (Though I don’t like the orange in the bathroom) But that price is crazy for that size 🥶🥶🥶
hehe, love when your brain starts furnishing a place 🏡 indeed, it was quite the ask for the size! thanks for watching 🩵
Very interesting to see these flats! Love the old brick ones. The old ones always have these very narrow corridors and stairs :) But I will never understand the need of carpet flooring in Britain. I'm amazed you were allowed to film and post these as people are still living in them.
yes, the brick ones are so cute! thanks for watching 🩵
#6 for me… radiant floor heat..💕
Love that!
London is cheaper than Dublin!😮 Those are really nice flats. But still looking at them they seem pricey for the space. Rental market is crazy everywhere now.
indeed, it's wild!
Over £2000/month in rent? That is completely insane. 😳
It's "fashionable" Hackney and a very popular area. It's also north of the river and generally more expensive than the south side.
indeed!
How do people pay for that? Where do people get the money from? I don't think it's sustainable for humanity.
Gentrification.
Yep that’s London!
Morning from Hawaii that was a good video on your apartment hunting
thank you so much!
enjoyed watching this sooo much and I don’t live remotely in the area haha greetings from Puerto Rico ❤️🥰
aw, thank you so much for watching 🥰
This was interesting.Why do they have 2 bathrooms in tiny flats,is that a his & hers room,rather unnessesary and also small bathrooms are better cos our flat has a big bathroom(what do you need the space for)
Great video! What sites (or letting agents) did you use to find these flats? I love all of the different layouts especially the duplexes.
thank you! i also love the little duplexes 🥰 great question - I use a mix of Zoopla, Right Move and Open Rent when looking (and Spare Room if looking for roomates) ✨
If you love Hackney, you could also consider Wanstead, Forest Gate or go south of the river, to Southwark (all have excellent open spaces - Wanstead flats, Southwark Park, and are convenient for access to central London!)😊😊😊
Fulham maybe?
@abeerali7834 Fulham is great!!! (I went to school there LOL), but a lot more expensive than Hackney (1 br flat in Fulham £299k to £1.1m, Hackney £275-800k source Foxtons)👍👍👍
@ WOW! Things have certainly changed. I left London in 2014 and didn’t update my real estate info 😅
Sold my family’s flat in Kensington. Maintenance issues and leaks occurred every month. Old buildings, high prices 🙈
Thank you for taking us through your journey. I'm in the process of starting my journey for house hunting v soon. What resources would you recommend I use to find listings and book appointments?
no worries, thanks for watching!! I used zoopla, rightmove and open rent (also spareroom if you're looking for room mates) Hope this helps and all the best with your journey 🩵
For comparison, I live in Bangkok Thailand, where I pay 232 GBP per month for a 535 sq/ft (50 sq/m) 1 bedroom apartment. The building has a gym, swimming pool, dentist, 2 full-service laundries, Pilates studio and a hair salon.
nice!
When we are setted in a flat, very rarely we move out unless the landlord doesn't renew the lease. 😅
totally!
New subscriber 🙂 Loved the tour of the flats 🌻
thanks for watching and subscribing 🩵
I've seen a lot of those listings or been around where those listings are. I pay 1k for one room in a 4 bedroom flat on a council estate in hackney. The size is okay but it still holds the council house infrastructure and vibration. There is an inefficiency when it comes to living in council houses.. I hope not to have to pay 1k after this lease is up to live in another council building..
I liked #3 and #6. I'm curious about what is considered spacious. A number of the ones you said were spacious were 500 to 600 square foot range. That seemed smallish to me. I used to live in a one bedroom that was 850 square foot here in Washington, DC and my current two bedroom is 1,200 square feet. I'm thinking that in London the range of square footage must be relatively smaller.
yes, those ones were lovely! it's a great question and you're right, the square footage in london is small and for the price we could afford, looking at zone 2 properties, these small flats "felt" very spacious relative to the price haha! thanks for watching!
It strikes me that the UK is the reverse of the US. In the UK everything outside the flat looks old, and everything inside the flat is modern. In the US, the world outside looks modern but inside, we love our antiques and distressed cabinetry and floors, etc!
As an Aussie, I much prefer the style of flats in the UK. Often with the cutest little heritage details. Many old buildings in the UK, which I love, have just so much character and funny little quirks around every corner. And to be honest, the history of Australia and the US is virtually non existent compared to the UK and Europe with its stunning old buildings. ❤
You can tell the ex local
Authority homes such a shame they were sold
What kind of mansion can I get in Chelsea for $10? Preferably next to Adele.
Hi ! Are all those apartment furnished ? Or is it not a thing in the Uk ? And with this price, does it include like electricity, water, all this, or you have to add it on top of it? And how much is it usually?
hello! most of these apartments were unfurnished as we had our own furniture that we want to keep but getting furnished apartments is a thing in london :) the price is just rent and you pay water, gas, electricity and/or council bills on top of that! those differ a lot depending on where you live but I give a breakdown of my utility expenses in my "what i spend in a week" video - hope that helps!
I'm a born and bred Londoner who was born in hackney, and genuinely think that I was born and lived in the building of the first property you showed for the early part of my life 😂
woah, no way!
I can’t get over how many properties show a toilet that was exposed, with both lids up. Who doesn’t put the seat down when the loo is right beside the hand basin and their TOOTHBRUSH. Gross!
haha true!
why electric stow everywhere? no using cooking gas in London?
de beauvoir area for me personally is a win - check it out
agreed! great little area 🩵
Nr 4 and nr 7!🤩
yes !! thanks for watching 🩵
Great Work!!
thank you so much!
Crazy rents!😢... my son pay just under 900 mortgage for his flat...and already has a good anount of equity...plans to sell and buy a house nexr year.
very wild!
@@georgiadoust wild?? Unless u mean the cost of rents
yep, i mean the rents are wild!
Gentrification makes me very tired !
Gosh. You are being robbed that is for sure just because you want to live near central London? When I lived in South London and owned my own flat, my commute to central London from East Dulwich (my office was in Grosvenor Square at that time) took me 1.5 hours each way on the bus. Then my office moved to Chancery Lane so I could walk to the station where I got the train to High Holborn. My journey came down to about 40 min.
These areas you are looking at can be really rough, though they have been "gentrified" in later years (where we lived in East Dulwich has been gentrified too) We eventually moved out of London down to the south west where we bought a house for less than the amount we sold our flat for. We both kept doing the same jobs we had done in London, except my commute was 15 mins and my husband's was 25 mins.
When you are young, living in London seems really important for various reasons. But other cities have just as much going on, and have cheaper accommodation. My parents had moved from South London down to the south coast when I was at school. I could not wait to get back to London and did so when I was 24. By the time I was 26 I had bought my own flat. For me, London was everything and I could never envisage wanting to leave it again. Six years later I was really ready to leave. I had bought my flat while I was still single, then got married and wanted to get out and leave that rat race behind because I realised that London wasn't everything and I could live a much better life elsewhere. My husband and I carried on doing the same work, except down on the Southwest Coast. Note: Flats number 3 or number 10 were the best and I think you should have really thought hard about either of those.
Is the £2000 pcm budget in the room with us?
what do you mean by in the room with us?
Finding a new place in London is the worst most stressful experience why am i watching this rn
Grreat. Bi dont feel so bad afterall. SHEEZE
I'm going to be honest these are not worth the price at all. And for that price per month aren't you better off buying a house?
Not familiar with London?
15:57 What? 😂 They couldn't have moved the cats in another room and close the door to this room that got you through to the courtyard? 😂
haha right!?!?!?!?!
Ridiculous prices, we pay 1300 for semi detached 4 bed house with extension and field size garden with woods in the back and in one of the best areas in the city.
As someone who lives in 100sqm apartment with a garden for 1100€ in the west of Germany those prices are definitely high for me.
And why are those leases so short time?
wow, that's so nice! agreed, it's pretty wild ✨
But west Germany is not London, isn’t it?
@@vonder7 Which doesn’t make the short leases less senseless.
And compared to Berlin it’s still expensive.
These prices, in Pounds, scare the hell out of me living outside Vancouver in Canada. 😮
Fair!
I think the hassle of moving has to be weighed against spending money for quirks. Take you money and do some getaway weekends.
i completely agree, having to pack everything up, move it around and re settle in a new space, that definitely weighed on my mind too! looking forward to those getaways heheh 🏝️ thanks for watching 🩵
Not sure you are using 'massive' correctly :)
haha, for london zone 1 & 2 standards
@ I did have a bit of a shock when I started looking last year after 10 years in the same flat without a single rent increase. Thanks for sharing btw.
I remember the times where hackney was a no go area.. people will eventually leave London nobody will be able to live in London.
Apartment 3 or 7. The people living in 7 just have a shit-ton of clutter, but it would feel a lot bigger if that all got swept out.
yeah, those apartments were great, particularly the size of 7!
I am surprised there was a tenant Air BnB-ing her bedroom. Most landlords would not allow that.
she was the current owner :)
What is an unofficial courtyard? X
haha this is my language to describe the space just outside the flat that might have been either the flats open car space or maybe for everyone in the mews but because it's directly in front of the flat's front door, you could unofficially set up a little table and chairs similar to what the neighbours had done and kind of claim that space :)
Very quiet neighbours.. crazy prices.
indeed!
hunting - means renting, so impressive lol
That lot is horrendous, i live in a 3 bed in SW London v nice area less than 1800 a month😅
Wow here’s me thinking my rent 880 a month for three bedroom house was expensive 🤯 how are people living and paying rent
indeed!
I thought US was over priced. You get very little for the money.
yeah, super small flats here!
But New York is even more expensive . Or are you comparing a town in Arkansas to one of the most famous global cities in the world? You can go up to Scotland and it’s 4-5 times cheaper.
And the moral of the story is.... move out of London asap.
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No stay south us northerners love our area thankyou very much 😊
Flat 1 was like wow for the price?? Its greatt and boom there's a graveyard... that's explain why
hahaha so true !! 🪦
Wow…so expensive!! All of them are ok but too expensive for my taste 😅
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People are never happy - want to be as close to the center of London but are not prepared to have noise on their doorstep. 🙄
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Aw, I'm in Bow and totally recommend it. Was the last flat off of Gunmakers lane? Looks familiar :)
nice !! omg, it totally was off gunmakers lane, well done 👏 thanks for watching 🩵
What’s the deal with all these influencers now holding microphones?
Graveyard - quiet neighbours! Would live above a funeral home as you know it's quiet.
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Rent lease is different
I would, move out of London. The prices are ridiculous. I understand why people move to Manchester or Leeds and commute by fast train when absolutely necessary. Working from home gives you so many more options. You could be buying a lovely apartment up North for a lot less than you are paying in rent.
yeah, it's pretty pricey! love living in london town though 🥰
Private higher, council flats restrict coat, only available for citizens.
46 qm for 2400£. Plus electricity, gas, water, wifi... That's insanity. How do people afford this rents? How can you survive if you're a cashier, bus driver, waitress etc? That's absolutely ridiculous.
My goodness, the price of rent.
indeed!
These all seemed pretty much the same to me. Too modern. Where are the quirky cheap "dumps" .
fair !! thanks for watching ✨
House price rises over the years mean there are no cheap livable dumps only expensive livable dumps.
2200 for a graveyard in backyard? Nah i pass i aint paying all that i can for a garage not for a graveyard!!!!
How people afford this is crazy
They work?
At the risk of depressing you, I am about to buy a 4bed spacious double fronted HOUSE around 2000sqft for £250.000...which if you can afford 2400per MONTH in rent you can easily afford to buy...but the house isn't in London (which for me is a bonus) and has a sea view
And? That proves nothing. For 250k in some other countries you can buy almost a mansion with stables. Location is everything. In Thailand you can buy a house with an infinite swimming pool for that price.
@vonder7 and your comment proves what?
@@dtulip1 because this is about London and we talk about London prices. Everybody knows that London is expensive and everybody knows that you can buy a house in Buckwaterville for 250k but it doesn’t change anything. You think you found a deal of the lifetime? Or that people will move now to your town?
living behind a graveyard. hell na
hehe!
Quiet neighbors!!!
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thank you!
All so small price not so relevant
London yuk