February 11, 2005

silhouette3.JPG From the desk of Jane Galt:

A plea for help

I'm looking for a London sublet for part of March, running through at least April and possibly May. Being a journalist, I'm on a budget . . . no corporate apartments or hotels for me. This seems to be considerably harder to find in London than it is in New York, at least so far. Can any of my readers point me in the right direction?

Posted by Jane Galt at February 11, 2005 6:17 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound links
Comments
Posted by: Bill on February 11, 2005 6:22 PM

Talk to the bloggers at http://www.samizdata.net/blog/
They live in London.

Posted by: Jon Barnard on February 11, 2005 6:26 PM

I may know someone who can help; how far are you prepared to commute?

Posted by: Giles on February 11, 2005 6:27 PM

"Can any of my readers point me in the right direction?"
Err East?

Posted by: Damien Smith on February 11, 2005 9:15 PM

You may want to check out http://www.moveflat.com. It's mainly a flatsharing site (London's housing is so expensive that a lot of people share, present company included) but they do list some flats for rent on both a short- and long-term basis.

Posted by: Brian on February 11, 2005 10:18 PM

I've had good luck with www.craigslist.org for temporary apartments in Toronto and Paris. They have a London page too.

Posted by: Alan on February 12, 2005 6:29 AM

If I were a single man living in London, I'd invite you to stay with me.

However, I am neither. But I'll second Brian's opinion. Craig has done quite well for me a number of times.

Posted by: PJ on February 12, 2005 7:23 AM

I AM a single man living in London. I happen to know some people near where I live who are going on holiday around that time. E-mail me if interested - maybe I can act as matchmaker. It's quite an expensive area - that's the only thing.

Posted by: Peter on February 12, 2005 2:48 PM

Wow, you're going overseas to live. I didn't know you spoke another language.

Posted by: Huck on February 12, 2005 8:19 PM

Have fun in London. Now your mildly annoying habit of using British spellings will at least be justified while you're there :)

Posted by: Joatmoaf on February 13, 2005 8:53 PM

You could get a job at CNN. I understand they need a new boss and they pay well.

Posted by: ricksamerican on February 13, 2005 10:00 PM

Seriously,
My wife and I have done very well with an outfit called yourstay.com. Excellent flats all over London for the same or less as a mid-range hotel. We stayed in Mayfair for a week for about GBP 1400. Give them a call, they have specials every week.

Posted by: Kate on February 14, 2005 3:52 PM

I know my folks have often "traded" apartments with people when they traveled overseas for a month or more. We used to do this for short periods when I was a kid. I could get a hold of the web-sites that have those types of listings if you want.

Posted by: Han Meng on February 14, 2005 4:52 PM

yourstay.com got some negative reviews here

Posted by: ron on February 15, 2005 11:09 PM

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noutices that. It comes and goes, too. It's awful. Sorry.

Posted by: jp on February 15, 2005 11:23 PM

Check Craigslist London. anything you need you can find there.
url is here:
http://london.craigslist.org/

Posted by: John Coltrane on February 17, 2005 1:46 PM

Something here might work:

http://www.nybooks.com/classifieds/#rentals

Best regards

Comments are Closed.