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Why London has a bigger bed bug problem than the rest of the UK

Dense housing, high tourist turnover and shared HMO walls mean London sees more bed bug cases per capita than anywhere else in the UK.

London consistently tops UK bed bug call-out statistics, and it's not a coincidence. Three factors stack the deck: extremely dense housing, one of the highest tourist and short-let turnovers in Europe, and a huge stock of HMOs and converted flats with shared walls, floors and voids.

Bed bugs don't need to travel far — they walk from flat to flat through skirting gaps, service risers and communal hallways. In converted Victorian and Edwardian terraces (the majority of inner-London housing), those routes are everywhere.

That's why single-flat chemical treatments so often fail in London: the neighbouring flat re-seeds the problem within weeks. A single-visit whole-property heat treatment is the only approach that reliably closes it down.

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