It's got bad. So bad, according to the Independent, that tenants fighting for London lets are resorting to sending in CVs to try to swing things in their favour. That's not all. According to a Ludlow Thompson agent:

One tenant even offered to bake a potential landlord a cake to clinch a deal.

It's seems just like yesterday that developers were offering first-time buyers free wide-screen TVs with their new build apartments. Now frustrated first-time buyers are offering Battenbergs to landlords.

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