{"id":27457,"date":"2016-09-27T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-matchbox-flats-of-paris-have-a-lot-of-room-for-improvement\/"},"modified":"2016-09-27T20:01:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T13:01:06","slug":"the-matchbox-flats-of-paris-have-a-lot-of-room-for-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-matchbox-flats-of-paris-have-a-lot-of-room-for-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"The matchbox flats of Paris have a lot of room for improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThousands of Parisians round off a hard day\u2019s work with a trudge up six flights of stairs to a tiny, stuffy room they call home.
\nIn a city where it is difficult to find a flat \u2013 especially on a low budget and without the correct paperwork \u2013 many rooms that once served as domestic helpers\u2019 sleeping quarters have been turned into flats for rent.
\nIt is borderline illegal to rent out these micro-flats, typically wedged under a rooftop, as they measure less than nine square…
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
\nRead more…The matchbox flats of Paris have a lot of room for improvement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thousands of Parisians round off a hard day\u2019s work with a trudge up six flights...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-78R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":97608,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/seniors-have-options-to-unlock-value-of-hdb-flats\/","url_meta":{"origin":27457,"position":0},"title":"Seniors have options to unlock value of HDB flats","date":"September 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Seniors may choose to rent our a spare bedroom or sell part of their lease back to HDB. 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