Thames oil tanker turned into £725-a-month flats

The ultimate river view is available to flat hunters after a 44-metre Thames oil tanker was turned into apartments.

Docklands-based lettings agency Nice Room bought the 1964 Bruce Stone vessel for £40,000 and spent another £360,000 creating London's first floating apartments. The four "flatshare" flats, with rentals on a room-by-room basis, each have four bedrooms connected by a staircase to a sitting room and kitchen. Project leader Benedict Knill, who has been living on board for the past year, said: "It is an environmentally-friendly way of renting a room in London. In times gone by, many people used to live on the Thames. We want to bring that vibrancy back."

The Bruce Stone is moored at Barking Reach and rooms start at £725 inclusive per month.