I’ll kick off, this was my first flat, 1 bedroom with separate living room/kitchen and bathroom for £800 per month opposite KOKO in Mornington Crescent back in 2005

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  2. 2010, Waterloo, 3 bedroom, flat share,
    £800 per month for 1 bedroom

  3. 1996, 3 bed maisonette in Southfields (near Wimbledon). £50 per person, per week (3 sharing). We were students. This maisonette was far too nice for students, we were lucky to get it. We had a garden, decent lounge, nice kitchen. Landlady was a bit bonkers though, but nice enough.

  5. Mile End in 2007, Double room in a 2 bed flatshare. £433 excluding bills.

  6. 2017. One bedroom house in Battersea, right next to the park – £1200 per month!

  7. Twickenham in 2009, one room, no living room, rent was £420 a month

  9. Exmouth Market, above the tattoo shop. Small bedroom, shared with 3 others. 5min walk to work!
    £100 a week, found it on Spareroom?
    2007
    [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Exmouth+Market,+London/@51.5262241,-0.1084719,3a,90y,133.98h,105.41t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sp9Qttuixk86nWFhcBrFRZw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-15.408468552245665%26panoid%3Dp9Qttuixk86nWFhcBrFRZw%26yaw%3D133.9818675344504!7i13312!8i6656!4m6!3m5!1s0x48761b4586a777d3:0xd5ada88a54966d0a!8m2!3d51.525814!4d-0.1093159!16s%2Fm%2F026g_0p?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDcxNS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Exmouth+Market,+London/@51.5262241,-0.1084719,3a,90y,133.98h,105.41t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sp9Qttuixk86nWFhcBrFRZw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-15.408468552245665%26panoid%3Dp9Qttuixk86nWFhcBrFRZw%26yaw%3D133.9818675344504!7i13312!8i6656!4m6!3m5!1s0x48761b4586a777d3:0xd5ada88a54966d0a!8m2!3d51.525814!4d-0.1093159!16s%2Fm%2F026g_0p?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDcxNS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)

  11. £800 pcm for a room in a shared 3-bed flat on Warwick Road, Earl’s Court in 2017.

  13. Tufnell Park, shared with one other person, 2005. Pretty basic but fairly roomy for 2 people.

    £550 pcm, bills included.

  16. Herne Hill £350/month. 2005

    It was a bit more shooty back then though.

  17. 2009, NW3, 1 bed flat with kitchen/lounge combined & shower room, £950 pcm.

  18. 2 bed house clapham 2004 £600pcm (was owned by my girlfriends mum) then 2006 a big one bed flat in clapham old town $800pcm

  19. Islington, Batchelor street. 2002. £785 per month flat share

  20. 2016, house share, Peckham, £550 a month. It had slugs everywhere and you couldn’t turn the heating off.

  21. 2016- South Croydon, £1050pcm for a second floor one bedroom flat.

  22. Also what is your mother’s maiden name and the name of your first pet

  23. Bedsit (as we called them then) in Holroyd Rd SW15 in 1980. £10 a week!

  25. a bit off topic.. but bought a whole house (4 bed) in Battersea for £110k. It was 1988.

    Saw the fkr recently for 1.7m. Doing the same thing as ’88. The country has not got 15x more wealthy since then.

    If we don’t get serious at wealth tax, things will only get worse.

  27. 2014, one room in a nice-ish flat in Islington (hence the name!) near a park, £625. I signed the lease in the back of blacked out range rover in a train station carpark. The landlady was dodgy AF and tried to extort the lead tenant to pay everyone’s rent upfront for a year. I remember it fondly!

  28. 1984 Hard to Let council flat in south London tower block – no one paid any rent and nothing ever happened.

  29. 2001 Caledonian Road.. 4 guys sharing, £497 per month each..(40% of take home pay for me). absolute deathtrap of a flat with a gangster for a landlord.

    We had the time of our lives.

  30. I looked at this and thought it was familiar. My first one was about 2 doors down

  31. This is so hilarious if it’s the one in the picture my mate rented it for a few years round 2020. Obviously rent much higher. Fun times

  33. 1983. We rented a place in Stoke Newington which was in retrospect an absolute shit hole. It was 15 quid a week each, IIRC. For that, we got basically two rooms. The bedroom was partitioned into two rooms with a hardboard “wall” between them so you could hear each other like they were lying next to you. The other room was everything else. There was a cooker, a couple of cupboards, a sink, a bath tub, an open fireplace and two armchairs. It was the “front room” so if you were in the bath when your mate came home with someone it was a bit weird! The dreaded bog was shared with the downstairs speed freak punks who always nicked the lightbulb so it was poo-in-the-dark. Upstairs were two Glaswegians hash dealers who were super nice but they hardly ever spoke and when they did I couldn’t understand a word.

    I thought it was marvellous at the time. Last time I looked the place sold for something like 1.3 million

  34. Big converted garage in Camden in 2016, on one of the Mews roads up past big Sainsburys. 5 good size bedrooms, two living rooms, a little garden we called the prison yard and a separate kitchen – £750 per person and the nicest landlord in the world … Seems unbelivable now!

    We thought it was outrageously expensive at the time and it it was by far the biggest and nicest house in our friendship group. We felt like the Lords and Ladies of Camden living there haha

  38. Shoreditch, 2022. 600£ a month. It was grim but I miss it. Had the best flatmates ever.

  39. Palmers Green. Rent-free. All meals, clothing and bills provided. 1986. I was 0 years old.

  40. A lot of sweet nostalgia here but really this is just stressing me out over how much rent prices have gone up.

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