Last night, I posted an advert on property rental site SpareRoom: ‘Looking for someone to take over my room in Dalston/De Beauvoir from July. Beautiful house, large bedroom, overlooks a garden centre.’ By this morning, I had almost 60 inquiries.
Bleary eyed and fuzzy from sleep, I checked my email: it was inundated with prospective tenants offering to ‘pass’ interviews over Zoom before being granted a viewing or handing over large sums of money for the deposit before even seeing the place in person. One woman had contacted me from Australia.
Millennials are used to a nomadic existence
The overwhelming response to my advert, while a plus for me, is a symptom of the lack of housing in available in London at the moment – especially for members of Generation Rent (millennials who have been priced out of the buyers’ market). In March, there were reportedly almost 44 per cent fewer rooms to rent in the capital than last year. This
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