Incredibly tiny flat up for rent. Is it the smallest ever?

An unbelievably small flat is up for rent. It's an astonishing tiny 72 square feet, and is claiming the title of the smallest flat in the UK. It comes with a shocking annual rent of £895 a week - or £50,000 a year. The price tag is due to its location in swanky Knightsbridge, cheek-by-jowl with the most expensive flats in the country.

The flat has been cleverly designed and recently renovated. The owners have installed the mini kitchenette behind a mirrored wall in order to make the place feel bigger. They have also mounted the TV on a wall, and squeezed a shower and toilet into a space you wouldn't have imagined would be big enough to turn around in.

There's room in the flat for a single bed, but once you installed it, you'd struggle to do anything else. The tenant, therefore, might have to invest in something that folds away to the size of a postage stamp in order to make this work.

There's no getting away from the fact that you'd need to be happy with small places and very disciplined about clutter in order to live there.
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Tiny studios

Over the years, the crazy London property market has sparked a number of conversions that have claimed to be the smallest studio flats in the country. In 2012 a tiny studio in the same area went on the market for £90,000, but by comparison it was relatively big - at 86 square feet.

In 2007 another rival went on the market in Chelsea, for £170,000. That one was a former cleaner's cupboard, but again it was larger than the Knightsbridge newcomer - at 82 square feet.

None of these flats, however, can claim to be the smallest in London. That title goes to a 62 square foot studio in Notting Hill - which was fashioned out of a cupboard in the 1980s. It hasn't been on the market recently, but in 2005 was rented out at £135 a week.

A kitchen, shower room and wardrobe space were fashioned out of the cupboard - by building the bed on top of the shower and wardrobe. It was advertised at the time as being suitable for someone with a very active social life.

But what do you think? Could you live in a place this size, and would you fork out £895 a week in order to do so? Let us know in the comments.

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