Interesting Facts

The average private rent for accommodation in the UK is often doulbe that of other EU countries. (Many Brits spend almost 40 per cent of their earnings on rent, compared with a European average of 28 per cent.  According to the  According to a report from the National Housing Federation, the average monthly rent in Britain was £750 at the end of 2013, compared with £400 across Europe. It was £520 in the Netherlands, £500 in Germany, £482 in France, £447 in Italy and only £268 in Poland.) Source

According to the ONS, the average monthly rent in the UK, for private accommodation, was £854 per month. (In Germany it's about €730. How much is it where you live?)

According to commercial property agents, C&W, Hong Kong has world's most expensive retail space. (Causeway Bay in Hong Kong is the most expensive retail location in Hong Kong, charging a whacking 1,859 euros per sqm per month, pushing New York's Fifth Avenue off top spot for the first time in 11 years.)

The average monthly rent for a two-bedroom home in London is £1,360 a month, which is almost two-and-a-half times more than the rest of England (According to the housing charity Shelter, private rents are now unaffordable in 55% of local authorities in England. Homes in these areas cost more than 35% of median average local take-home pay. Shelter found that rents had risen at one-and-a-half times the rate of incomes in the 10 years up to 2007. There is a reason that we scrimp and save in order to be able to buy our house. You just can't trust landlords.)

The Austrian army rents out personnel and machinery. (Seemingly you rent a lieutenant for only €21.27 an hour.)