Spareroom

In an incredible show of humanitarian compassion, over 200,000 UK householders have signed up to the Government’s campaign to provide a spare room to individuals or families fleeing the war in Ukraine. …

There’s a well worn saying, ‘You can’t have it both ways.’ Never is this more true than when it applies to letting out a room in your home, especially if you are the type of person who would rather they didn’t have to. Like many older people, I let out…

I first started sharing my home in 2017, when I was 57. Amrit, a friend of a friend, moved in with me. When we met, I was managing two AirBnB rooms, and it had stopped becoming fun with all the changing of sheets, meeting and greeting guests, and the constant…

Everything was rocking back in January 2020. The startup I co-founded with my colleague Steve in September 2019, called Silver Sharers, experienced exponential growth thanks to a feature in the Evening Standard widely shared on social media. …

Removal of Spare Room Subsidy Since April 2013 there have been new rules in Housing Benefit for working-age people living in social housing. Pensioners aren’t affected by this change. Under the new rules, you will receive Housing Benefit based on the number of people in your household and the size…

A 58-year-old Londoner has launched a flat-sharing service aimed at older people who need to split their rent in the capital.

Changes in the cost of renting a room in different parts of London over the past two years shows the money is moving South and East. Thanks to Nick Duxbury, who reminded me to look at room rents, I’ve done a chart of SpareRoom’s quarterly postcode area data on room…