Chatting and laughing, drinks in hand, around 70 young women have gathered in a London pub with one aim: to find the ideal housemates. Most would like to live alone, but this is widely impossible in a city plagued by high rents. Instead they have signed up and paid for an event designed to fast-track a search process that can take months.
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00:00What kind of areas are you looking at?
00:02Erm, West.
00:03Yeah?
00:04Nice.
00:05Because, like I said, my main ones would be, like, the room and then we're constantly looking for schools.
00:09Yeah.
00:10So, at the moment, are you doing, like, part, like, time at home?
00:13Like, working from home and then part time at home?
00:15Yeah.
00:17How are you, babe? Lovely to meet you.
00:19So, I kind of get to know all these nice girls and see which ones I gel best with.
00:22Erm, because it is, it is really tough and you feel a lot of pressure to quickly find someone
00:27because it's so quick in London to find a place.
00:29They go so quickly.
00:30So, the pressure doesn't help.
00:32So, this, this event is, is really, really useful.
00:40Circle to Northern, just to talk for a bit.
00:42And I was just crunching sweat.
00:44I was like, yeah, I just got my dress today.
00:46Yeah, super excited.
00:48Erm, I, I think it's definitely unusual or particularly unique in London
00:53that you have people in their thirties and forties in house shares
00:56and I don't really think it's a situation people particularly, like, want to be in.
01:00I think it's a situation which is just, erm, people just found themselves forced into.
01:04I mean, I know people in their thirties who are living in house shares
01:07with people that they don't really know.
01:09Yep.
01:24Why there is a mismatch between supply and demand?
01:27A big part of it, I think, it's in the, in the fact that there are strict regulations for new, for new buildings.
01:40Sound of wind blowing.
01:44Sound of water flowing.