https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/housing-space-cost
Renting a home: How much space will £100 buy you?
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/housing-space-cost
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Renting a home: How much space will £100 buy you?
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/housing-space-cost
- Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
- Created: 2017-12-13T10:07:58.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-12-13T10:19:44.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-27T08:40:25.833Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: housing, openrent, rent
- Homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42154476
- Size: 6.84 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# Renting a home: How much space will £100 buy you?
In December 2017 **Dan Wainwright** [reported on the cost of floor space in rental properties across the UK](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42154476), based on analysis of [data provided by a rental website](https://blog.openrent.co.uk/average-floor-area-of-rented-properties-per-100-rent/). Findings included:
* Each £100 of rent for a two-bed home in central London gets about 3.91 sq m, smaller than the average three-person tent
* Bradford is the city where £100 rents the biggest floor area in a two-bed home - 14.83 sq m
* Outside London, Oxford (5.03 sq m per £100 a month) and Bristol (6.98 sq m per £100 a month) were the most expensive places in the sample
* The average two-bed home in rural Lincolnshire is £200 a month, compared with £1,691 a month in London
## Get the data
* OpenRent: [UK Rental Data on Average Floor Area per £100 Rent](https://blog.openrent.co.uk/average-floor-area-of-rented-properties-per-100-rent/)
* Google sheet: [UK Rental Data on Average Floor Area per £100 Rent](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRdRgHApmV2EIMZFmU1ctNFTp9nWEtg0YQj6CGTVFEYQSTJi6W6kY8n7Ys5nqmOcj2_R1PDIcoSl8rt/pubhtml)
* CSV: [All properties in sample](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/housing-space-cost/blob/master/OpenRent%20data%20on%20floor%20space%20-%20All.csv)
* ONS: [House prices: how much does one square metre cost in your area?](https://visual.ons.gov.uk/house-prices-how-much-does-one-square-metre-cost-in-your-area/)
## Visualisation and interactivity
* Infographic: How much space can you rent for £100/month?
* Interactive widget: Where can you afford to live? Try our housing calculator to see where you could rent or buy
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