Tiny studios in run-down converted buildings are going for just $200 a week in inner Sydney – if you don't mind cooking inches from your TOILET
- Ads for studio apartments in inner Sydney reveal some unique design features
- A Leichhardt flat features a toilet adjacent to the kitchen with no wall between
- Others feature rice cookers left on benches and paint falling from walls
- One pictures an oven in an angled corner where the door can't be opened
Budget studios and small units in Sydney's inner suburbs are being rented out for less than $200 a week - but you'll have to put up with a few quirks.
Listings revealed bizarre features such as abandoned rice cookers, mismatched furniture, and a toilet located right next to the kitchen.
The one-bedders in converted buildings, or suburban houses divided up into small units, often suggest the lifestyle habits of the previous residents.
A hostel-style room in a Kensington property for $195 a week features 'Caution' tape stuck across the sliding doors and a collection of rice cookers and dirty crockery left on the bench in a 'perfect Eastern Suburbs rental'.
The combined kitchen and toilet in this Leichhardt one-bedder would suit 'an executive seeking simplicity', the real estate agent's blurb claims
Rice cookers and dirty crockery are seen in this ad for a Kensington studio apartment advertised at $195 per week in early July
The location of the oven in this uniquely shaped Enmore one-bed apartment means a tenant will need to pan-fry the roast
One property in the inner-west suburb of Leichhardt features a toilet, shower and basin less than a metre from the kitchen, with just a door to separating them.
'Ideally suited for a couple or executive seeking simplicity and carefree living with minimal fuss,' the unit is described on the real estate agent's site.
Despite the potential hygiene issues, remarkably a deposit had already been taken on the rental.
An inner-city Darlinghurst studio for $200 per week allows the tenant to sleep 'in' the kitchen and use a shared bathroom.
Another apartment in Enmore for $270 per week features an oven shoved into an angled corner where it's not immediately clear how the resident would open the oven door.
The 'Caution' tape across the screen door is a unique touch in this inner-city studio apartment
Eat and sleep in the one handy location at this Darlinghurst apartment for $200 per week
Paint falls from the wall of the petite kitchen in this one-bedroom Glebe apartment
One studio in Glebe boasts paint falling off the kitchen walls while a room for rent at $220 a week in a student house in Marrickville comes with some wildly eccentric lounge room furniture.
The inner-city Sydney rental vacancy rate halved from 5.6 percent in June 2020 to 2.7 percent last month as the market began the long recovery from the onset of the Covid pandemic.
Vacancy rates had risen as international students and new migrants were locked out of Australia but were now returning to pre-pandemic levels, in Sydney at least.
Renting a single room in this Marrickville student house comes with some odd loungeroom furniture
