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My Panasonic Lumix GX80's gone missing. Anyone seen it?
the Epsom sweep is done by the train crew before the unit goes back out, so if it got handed in it'd be logged same day not weeks later. one thing nobody's mentioned, the GX80 serial number is on the base plate and also buried in the EXIF of every photo you took with it, so if you've still got any jpegs on your phone or laptop you can pull the exact number and give that to BTP when you report it. worth flagging to the Wimbledon station staff too even though you got off there, cos a lot of found property on that line gets handed to whoever's on the gateline rather than kept on the train.
Worth knowing the 12-32 kit lens is the collapse one, so if it was sat extended on the seat it's a right faff to miss, but also means whoever nicked it might not realise the barrel's retracted and it looks broken. if you've still got the box, the serial's on a sticker on the side, otherwise the EXIF trick works. also BTP cover the whole SWR network so report to them not just the TOC, they actually log it on the national database which is how it'd get matched if someone hands it in at a random station later.
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What are some innovative ways to anonymously compare rental prices in a city?
SpareRoom's "rooms wanted" ads are underrated for this. people post what they're currently paying alongside what they want next, so you can scrape a rough sense of going rates by postcode without anyone knowing you looked. it skews young and flatshare heavy tho, so not much use if you're after 2-beds in zone 2.
Another one is just the depozit or tenancy deposit scheme data. not public-facing, but your council's housing officer can tell you median rents from deposit registrations if you email them under FOI. takes weeks, but its proper anon and nobody clocks u.
Rightmove and Zoopla only show asking rents, which are often 10 to 15 percent above what a place actually goes for, so they're a poor benchmark. The trick I've used is the ONS Price Index of Private Rents, which breaks things down to borough level and is genuinely anonymous since it's aggregate data, no listing or account needed. For something more granular, the London Renters Union runs a rent reporting tool where you submit what you're paying with your postcode and it maps it against others nearby, though the coverage is patchy outside the inner boroughs.
the openrent "rent check" thing is decent for zones 3-4 where the unions tool barely reaches. also worth checking the london.gov.uk planning portal for new build applications, they list "affordable" and market rent figures per unit in the viability assessments, which is basically the developer telling the council what they expect to charge. bit of a faff to dig through but its public, anonymous & nobody knows ur looking