/ 27 May 2005

Closet-turned-apartment has new tenant

London’s smallest apartment, a converted storage closet measuring just five square metres, has found a tenant for £585 pounds (about R7 000) per month.

Gordon Blausten of the Bruten and Company real-estate agency said the “tiny but trendy” apartment packs in kitchenette, shower and wardrobe under a loft bed.

Located in a turn-of-the-century Edwardian building in the heart of the fashionable Notting Hill area of west London, the apartment found a tenant after only three days on the market.

“A young professional woman, with a very active social life, is now living there,” said Blausten. “She probably doesn’t want to spend too much time there, or at least, I hope she won’t.” — AFP