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No way you find a nice place to live in London for £600, especially not a place of your own. If anything, you might find a room somewhere, but it's probably not
by mstade 9y ago
No way you find a nice place to live in London for £600, especially not a place of your own. If anything, you might find a room somewhere, but it's probably not going to be nice and it's likely not even going to be in London.
If you commute by long distance rail for at least an hour, an hour and a half maybe, to some small town way outside of London maybe you'll find something at that cost – but surely not in London proper.
My rents over the years in London where, per month, in order of when I lived there:
- apartment hotel studio in Limehouse: ~£2000-2500
- room in shared flat in Queensway: £1000
- 1-bed in Canary Wharf: ~£1650 (moved after a year because they wanted to back my rent by about 20%)
- studio in Angel: ~£1200
- basement studio in Highbury&Islington: ~£1350
The studio in Angel was unbelievably cheap for a brand new building in a nice neighborhood. I was the first tenant. It had one of those beds you flip down from the wall kind of thing. Sounds off putting but it was actually a really smart feature, made the place feel like a 1-bed.
- zerr 9y agoI'm talking more about Ilford, Barking, Wembley, etc...
- Swinx43 9y agoSorry but those are definitely not what counts as nice areas in London. I also doubt you would find something for £600 in some of those areas today.
- zerr 9y agoIt's not posh, but definitely nice, quiet and family-friendly I think. And the air seemed fresher compared to the city. Probably the rent will be bit higher, but the mortgage was ~600 (several months ago) for a nice two-bedroom apartment.
- mstade 9y agoI too doubted this, but I suppose it is possible, though the pickings are slim at best: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/map.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490&maxPrice=600&numberOfPropertiesPerPage=499&radius=10.0&propertyTypes=bungalow%2Cdetached%2Cflat%2Cpark-home%2Csemi-detached%2Cterraced&includeLetAgreed=false&viewType=MAP&dontShow=houseShare&letType=longTerm&viewport=-1.20263%2C0.774913%2C51.2122%2C51.8257 http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/map.html?locatio... Also note a lot of these would be likely £600+ since this doesn't show additional fees (estate agent, taxes etc.) Now, this may seem like an abundance of results – but a number of these listings are actually house shares, parking lots, garages etc. Maybe you'd be ok with sharing a house (I wouldn't) but I'm sure we can all agree living in parking space is out of the question. So maybe it's doable, but I think it'd be really hard work trying to find a place that's not kept together with shoe string and duct tape, while being in a decent area with a decent commute.
- aries1980 9y agoDirt-low rents on Zoopla and Rightmove are usually baits. Call up the agency and ask them if you can see the flat. They will tell you something like “this flat has gone, but I have something similar”. Finding a flat in London usually takes a month.
- DanBC 9y agoThe LHA rate for Brent is about £900 for a single bed flat. https://www.brent.gov.uk/media/169942/Local-Housing-Allowance-Rates-2015-16.pdf https://www.brent.gov.uk/media/169942/Local-Housing-Allowanc...