An estate agent has removed a listing from Rightmove after details of the property went viral. A photo of the tiny flat showed the bed inches away from the kitchen sink.
Reports suggested that the intimate size of the room was ideal for breakfast in bed.
The extremely self-contained ‘studio apartment’ was listed at £170 per week rental in Kember Street, London N1, with agents Relocate Me.
According to a report in the Islington Gazette, which had spoken to an unnamed employee at the agency, the firm had received “threatening” phone calls from the public.
However, according to other reports, the listing appears to have been taken down simply because the property had been snapped up.
Under the headline “This London flat is horrifyingly small and expensive”, the Huffington Post said that the flat had been taken, while Metro said it went within 16 hours of going online.
Eye has put in an inquiry to the agent as to the flat’s availability or otherwise, but has not yet received an answer – possibly because they have been inundated by the world’s press.
http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/tiny_flat_brings_threatening_calls_to_estate_agents_1_3628065
Comments (12)
Harsh to abuse an agent over this. He didnt build the flat!
I still don't understand why an agent would get "abusive" calls over it. The agent is just letting it – he didn't build it.
Hilarious posts – love it 🙂
It's a bargain.
The great North South divide widens again!
£170.00 a week can get you a 4 bed detached with garden in the North East
Do you get a free whippet to look after?
and a flat cap?
At £720 pcm it is half the cost of a hotel room for 4 nights a week for the month.
A smart agent would look to let this to someone who has to be in London for work but who has a home elsewhere.
When I have been doing consultancy work in London £1400 a month goes on a hotel room no larger than that with a sink no further away.
That said it is a horrid home if that is ones only option.
Its truly bizarre that such a 'flat' could even be legal. Although it does give new meaning to the phrase breakfast in bed.
Is that the w.c in the corner of the room, on the left?
Where's Ralph Bending when you need him?
Now they could have gone for bunk beds :-))