Harringay House rentals for Olympics?

As the Olympics house rental market warms up, I'm starting to wonder if Harringay, historic home of the 1948 Olympics basketball competition, will make some lets available to Olympics visitors.

In the Spring the Evening Standard reported that homeowners in south-east London are demanding up to £10,000 a week in rent. The rents being asked - four times higher than normal - are the first signs of the expected accommodation gold rush near the main Games venues.

The most expensive "Olympics-only" property the paper had found being offered for rent was a five-bedroom house in Blackheath billed as "perfect" for corporate hospitality and "a minute away" from the entrance to Greenwich Park, where the equestrian events are taking place.

The owners wanted £10,850 a week, the sort of rate usually associated only with property in Chelsea or Kensington.

At the other end of the scale, the owner of a one-bedroom flat in Greenwich is asking for £1,692 a week, considerably more than it could usually command in a month. Average rents in Greenwich are £1,229 a month.

Interested? A quick Google will turn up plenty of agencies and websites.