Residential roulette
Endpiece
Many of my colleagues have written Endpiece columns describing their trials and tribulations when it comes to finding an apartment on the stormy seas of the open market. I, too, could write this article on exactly the same topic, as due to a sudden change in my circumstances, I found myself temporarily homeless…
Since I first arrived in Poland in 1995, I’ve lost track of how many places I’ve lived in, but it has been at least thirteen. So I suppose I shall talk a little about the rental market, but that’s not all I’ve got to say. Before I moved into my current abode, I took a look at what was on offer on the PRS market in spite all the hype; but from my personal point of view I can say that it’s not all that it’s cracked up to be. I was offered a minimally furnished apartment, which wasn’t particularly cheap, and before I’d even got to the stage of signing the lease I was forced to jump through the administrative hoops of proving my income. When I left the UK, finding a place to live was all about finding a private landlord from a newspaper ad and paying a month’s rent in advance as a deposit. Not anymore. My brother recently returned to London after having lived in India, and since the UK market is now entirely dominated by PRS, he was forced to pay an entire year’s rent i
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