Tim Lowe

<strong>Budget living:&nbsp;</strong>For just £115&nbsp;a week, Tim gets&nbsp;all bills&nbsp;covered,&nbsp;a cleaner,&nbsp;fresh sheets&nbsp;and a&nbsp;concierge&nbsp;service at the Camden Collective. Image: Will Bremridge.
Renting

The secret tenant tests London's budget rental options

Our “secret tenant” Tim Lowe, 26, is moving home every three weeks testing budget rental options for young Londoners. After living as an “office guardian” above a Kwik-Fit garage in Gospel Oak, he has moved on to join a Camden house-sharing collective...
By Tim Lowe
22 Sept 2014
Canal life: Tim says it floats his boat, though winters can be tough
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The secret tenant tries living on a houseboat

Tim Lowe enjoys life on a Hackney canal boat at only £350 a month. But it's not winter yet...
By Tim Lowe
9 Oct 2014
Welcomed in: Tim Lowe stayed with a family to discover how the co-op functions, and how it manages to provide affordable, good-size social housing in the heart of London. Image: Will Bremridge&nbsp;
Renting

Rent on London's South Bank for £80 a week

Continuing his challenge of finding somewhere to rent for less than £500 a month in London's Zone 2, our secret tenant Tim Lowe discovers a South Bank housing co-operative that’s well within his budget.
By Tim Lowe
2 Dec 2014
<p>Affordable: Tim Lowe in his £100-a-month Hammersmith billet.&nbsp;Images:&nbsp;Will Bremridge</p>
Renting

How to pay £100 a month rent in London's Zone 2

Our secret tenant Tim Lowe turns to live-in caretaking of an empty building in Hammersmith in his hunt for a cheap rental home in Zone 2.
By Tim Lowe
18 Nov 2014
<strong>Low budget: </strong>Tim Lowe trialled some affordable housing options. Image: Daniel Lynch
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The secret tenant: a wish list for priced-out Londoners

It is possible to find Zone 2 rentals in London for less than £500 a month, but you have to be creative.
By Tim Lowe
9 Dec 2014
Call me square: Tim Lowe in his Wimbledon Y:Cube. Images: Daniel Lynch
Renting

The secret tenant tests a flat-pack house

Our secret tenant, graduate surveyor Tim Lowe, is testing rental options for young Londoners. His budget limit is £500 a month for a home in Zone 2. This week he swaps life on a Hackney houseboat for a bright red flat-pack box.
By Tim Lowe
28 Oct 2014
On the open road: Tim Lowe with his horsebox home. Image: Will Bremridge
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The secret tenant: my diary of calling a horsebox home

In the last of his series seeking out Zone 2 rental options for young Londoners at less than £500 a month all in, graduate surveyor Tim Lowe, 26, gets desperate and hires a gipsy caravan-style horsebox drawn by a Transit van.
By Tim Lowe
9 Dec 2014