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> But he doen't pay the utilities, the tenants do, so why would he care?

When you talk rent in London the first question asked tends to be "bills included?". This suggests to me that a non-trivial number of landlords would be interested in efficiency. Anecdotal, I don't have the data for the whole UK.

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> When you talk rent in London the first question asked tends to be "bills included?".

In my entire life I have only seen bills included in properties that were rented room by room, i.e. each room has a different tenant. I have never seen that for entire property rented to a single tenant

> When you talk rent in London the first question asked tends to be "bills included?".

is this something new? i have been renting in London for almost a decade and I have never heard of a landlord or agency offer to pay my bills.

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