Low Cost Living: LIG Featured in Estates Gazette
September 04, 2014
Young, Professional and priced out, an article showing the appeal of Live-in Guardians.
Meet Tim Lowe. He is 26, a graduate property surveyor and temporarily homeless. Fed up with shelling out close to £1,000 a month on rent, he moved out of his flat in Brixton and is now on a mission to find out what alternatives London has to offer people on median incomes. Over the next four months he will be moving every three weeks to scope out the options and report back on his findings and experiences. First stop – a disused office building above a Kwik Fit in north London. This is Lowe Cost Living.
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