 A kitchen unit and thin bar side make the 5ft 7in-wide room even more narrow, yet it stretches 24ft 7in from its front door to the property's concrete courtyard. Reddit users were quick to brand the studio's £850 monthly rent 'disgraceful' and 'disgusting', while EPS Properties' Hasan Osman admits the letting firm received complaints through Zoopla too. Despite the letting agent brushing off criticism by stating 'if it doesn't suit them, they don't need to rent it', he conceded £850 feels too high given the width of the room. Mr Osman reckons it convinced the landlord to drop the price to £750 per month, and the Zoopla listing was updated at around 4pm on Monday. The original flat listing on online property site Zoopla ( Kennedy News and Media) The room exceeds the Government's 6.25sqm minimum size for a room occupied by a person over 10 years old, and Hasan insists his firm, which manages properties for landlords, checked this before l){kind=link}
When social media users saw the images they noticed the long, thin layout looked more like the landlord’s ‘hallway’ than a studio apartment which prompted complaints to the letting firm
A ‘studio’ flat can be rented for £750 a month but house hunters says it would be like living in a corridor.
The landlord of has been forced to lower the ‘disgraceful’ £850-per-month asking price to rent after baffled viewers reacted to the property.
The Zoopla listing for a single room inside a semi-detached home in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, claims to have its own bathroom and kitchen area.
But when eagle-eyed social media users saw its photos they noticed the long, thin layout looked more like the landlord’s ‘hallway’ than a studio apartment.