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I decided to take the plunge two months ago and since then I have been looking for an apartment
,” explains Amélie, a 35-year-old Frenchwoman who has lived in London since 2015. The increase in rent for her current home, a one-room apartment in the Islington district, in the north of the capital, the young woman decided to buy her own property.
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The owner told me that he was going to have to increase it monthly by 300 pounds (335 euros).
I already pay 1300 pounds (1455 euros), and that without the bills.
The problem isn't that I can't keep up financially, it's that I've been in London for seven years already, I plan to stay there and therefore prefer to invest in a property that will be mine rather than bailing out the someone else's pockets."
20% increase in a few months
Since the end of the Covid pandemic, rents have indeed increased by an average of 15 to 20%.
The question of buying or renting a property is being posed in a new way and the answers have evolved.
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There was a readjustment of prices
which were…
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