Renting in London is more expensive than living in most European 4-star hotels
The average rent for a London flat is now £1,676 per month
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Your support makes all the difference.It is now cheaper to live in a 4-star hotel in two-thirds of European capitals than it is to rent the average London flat.
Latest figures show that the average rent for a London flat is now £1,676 per month - or £55 a night - having increased by 30 per cent in the last four years.
For the same amount of money you could live year round in a hotel in Dublin, Rome, Paris or Brussels.
Among the hotels that are more affordable than the average London rent include the Mercure Warszawa Grand in Warsaw that boasts a fitness centre, business facilities and two restaurants.
The Best Western Plus Hotel in Paris, the Nordic Hotel Domicil in Berlin and the Relais Castrum Boccea in Rome can also all be booked for less than £55 a night on travel websites for the 5th May this year.
The figures were highlighted by Labour’s Mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan.
He said: “Renting a home shouldn’t be a luxury, but under the Tories Londoners could live in 4-star luxury in most of Europe for what they pay.
“Rents have gone up by 30 per cent with a Tory Mayor and it would be exactly the same under Zac Goldsmith – with rents soaring above £2,000 a month.
Mr Khan said he would create a London-wide social letting agency as well as naming and shaming bad landlords and setting up a landlord licensing scheme.”
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