Welcome back to What I Rent – Metro’s tenant diary series exploring what renting is like in the UK and further afield. For last week’s sister column, What I Own , we visited Emily Hadley and her husband Kevin at their five-bedroom home by the seaside in Devon. The couple stuck to the mantra of ‘buying the worst house on the best street,’ transforming it beyond recognition since they moved in in 2015 with bright colours, wall prints, and quirky furnishings galore.
This week, we’re back in London having a nosy around Kyle Halls’s one-bedroom flat in Battersea. Having moved to the area almost three years ago, he loves the convenience that his current lease offers him, from the state-of-the-art gym to the cinema room. Here’s what he had to say about his renting situation.
.. Tell us about yourself! My name is Kyle Halls and I’m 30 years old.
I am the director of client success and head of partnerships at CREtech, a digital marketing and conference company. What kind of property do you rent and how long have you been there? I rent a studio apartment at Folk Co-Living, Florence Dock. Folk is a communal living property that provides me and other residents a studio apartment as well as access to shared facilities including a gym, fitness studio, co-working space, rooftop terraces, a cinema room and more.
I’ve lived at Folk since April 2024, I’m on a one-year lease currently. How much do you pay to live here? Latest London news How to get tickets for London’s Ne.