It’s famously hard to locate a place to live in London. It may be quite difficult to locate a property you like in a neighbourhood you like that is also reasonably priced due to factors like exorbitant rent and untrustworthy landlords.
But a recent ad on Rightmove has surprised me. A shed at the bottom of a garden on Brunswick Road in Ealing is being rented out as a one-bedroom or studio flat for more than £1,500 per month.
There is a little bathroom adjacent to the shed, which is simply one room. A bed is tucked away behind a series of shelves to attempt to provide seclusion, and a sofa is placed in the centre of the space to create a living area.
Situated just behind the compact, open-plan kitchen area, the bathroom has a shower, washbasin, and toilet. A fridge and freezer are placed next to a free-standing oven and stove, and a microwave sits on top of them.
If you wish to work from home in your shed as well, there is even enough room for a desk. The shed was listed for £1,517 a month on Rightmove through Foxtons; however, the advertisement states that the price was lowered on January 9, 2024.
Although it is no longer accessible on Foxtons or Rightmove, the advertisement is still visible on this TikTok that SpottedRightmove has uploaded. The let also stunned several commenters, with one wondering if it was even allowed.
Another wrote, “Honestly, it’s nice, but that price is whack,” while someone else said, “The main reason why I will never live in London.”
Next, people will be renting out their wheelie bins at the cost of £500 per month, advertised as a mobile home to make it sound a bit more classy.
The person renting this out ought to feel ashamed of themselves since it is a complete scam.
This is a shed load of money for very little.
It makes me angry because B&Bs are now full of migrants along with small hotels, and the government won’t do anything to stop them from arriving. There’s nowhere to put them; everywhere is full. Watch out; soon the government might start making all those with a spare bedroom take in a family. I wouldn’t put it past them.
There are probably hundreds of these scattered around London. The rent is probably about the same, but the conditions are not, and these people are used to exploit poor immigrants who work hard for very little money, so effectively slaves.
Very often the landlord is from the same country as the tenants and the council does not know these officially, and around Hounslow, garages are lived in by migrants. Hounslow is one of the worst for this.
There are hundreds of these illegal ‘beds in sheds’ in London alone.
Knock on many a garage door in London and you’ll find the same thing happening, but we would have seen a lot worse than this in Victorian Britain, which says it all—back to the dark ages.
They’re all over London, usually with illegal migrants living in shifts and working in unregistered sweatshops. These sheds are not registered, and the rent is never declared. This is a problem, but no one is interested, but then they love shedding money in London.
London is overpriced, overrated, and overpopulated. A playground for the world’s rich and a dumping ground for the world’s poor.
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