The Spectator at war: A room of one’s own

From ‘Flat-hunting’, The Spectator, 29 May 1915:

ECONOMY is just now a fashion set by necessity. The professional class are eagerly reducing their outlay, and the most obvious thing to save on is the rent. The immediate result of this determination to live at less cost is that all the cheap flats and small houses have gone up in price, the explanation of course being that there is a run upon them. Dear flats and large houses have come down to a corresponding extent. Flat-hunting is at the moment a very exciting sport; but it should be undertaken, if possible, only by the physically and mentally hardy. The fortunate hunter may in the end “bring down” a flat to suit his own requirements, and well worth all his fatigues, but he will have a good deal to go through first.