{"id":129254,"date":"2022-09-01T16:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/its-a-total-disaster-how-soaring-rents-cutthroat-competition-and-unscrupulous-landlords-are-breaking-tenants\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T16:12:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T09:12:18","slug":"its-a-total-disaster-how-soaring-rents-cutthroat-competition-and-unscrupulous-landlords-are-breaking-tenants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/its-a-total-disaster-how-soaring-rents-cutthroat-competition-and-unscrupulous-landlords-are-breaking-tenants\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a total disaster!\u2019 How soaring rents, cutthroat competition and unscrupulous landlords are breaking tenants"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWant to rent a flat or house? Be prepared to queue in the street, get into a bidding war or put down a deposit for somewhere you haven\u2019t even seenKatharine had been renting in London for nearly two decades, almost all her adult life, when she lost her job last year. No longer able to afford \u00a3900 a month to rent her one-bedroom flat in Crystal Palace, she relocated to Stratford-upon-Avon.But she missed the capital. \u201cI\u2019m a Londoner through and through,\u201d says Katharine, 40. \u201cComing back was a matter of when, rather than if.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…\u2018It\u2019s a total disaster!\u2019 How soaring rents, cutthroat competition and unscrupulous landlords are breaking tenants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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