HOUSE-HUNTERS have been left in despair at the state of the rental market after a London flat listing was spotted with some very specific preferences for a future tenant.
The listing for the room in a penthouse flat in Canning Town, East London, was posted to flat share site SpareRoom yesterday.
The room will command a whopping £1,050 per month from the lucky tenant who takes it on, but it’s the list of preferences for a future flatmate that have raised eyebrows the most.
The current tenants appear to be very picky about the habits of who they want to share their space with – including making clear that they want someone who will not “cook too much”.
According to the full list of requirements set by the current tenants, any prospective flatmates must work full-time and earn at least £35,000 per year.
In terms of purely desirable qualities though, the person they would prefer to share with should be between the age of 23 and 33.
As well as this, the tenant should only be somebody who “works from home for only 1-2 days a week”.
Ideally, the would-be flatmate shouldn’t be a budding Gordon Ramsay, as the current tenants are seeking someone who is “not cooking too much”.
The listing was spotted by a baffled Brit yesterday, who shared it to social media with the caption: “London rental market is cooked.”
It has since received over 500 comments from users whose opinions varied on the tenants’ strict list of preferences.
One commented: “Deliveroo, don’t eat, photosynthesise- you have options, just don’t cook.”
A second joked: “You may warm the milk for your morning Weetabix only. No further cooking permitted.”
Another wrote: “It’s entirely valid, some people literally spend 6pm to 8pm cooking every day and other housemates are lingering around starving, waiting to cook.
“It is not hard to batch cook or make a quick meal here or there, and when you live in a house share you all have to make sacrifices.”
A fourth said: “If they’re working from home in their bedroom whilst wearing a headset, what’s the complaint?”
But another reasoned: “That’s assuming that people would stay in their room? They have the right to use common spaces too.
“Someone consistently working from home in common spaces might get very annoying depending on the set up.”
Another quipped: “Actually, give me £1,000 and go find somewhere else to live…”
