The average rent in London is £2,500 a month.
That’s the middle of the market across every size of home. By size:
- Studio£1,733
- One bed£2,058
- Two bed£2,600
- Three bed£3,100
- Four bed£3,850
From 41,270 London homes, from agents and landlords who list directly, up to 5 October. How we measure it.
Jump to your boroughMedian rent
£2,500
a month, all sizes
Typical two-bed
£2,600
the most common London home
Time on market
8 days
a quarter had gone within 8 days of us first seeing them; half within 21
Price moves that were cuts
81%
of 4,918 changes
How much is rent in London, by number of bedrooms?
You pay for the second bedroom. A studio and a one-bed are nearly the same price. The step from one to two is where London starts charging you. Bars show the middle half of the market; the line is the median.
Middle half of the marketMedian
Average rent in London by number of bedrooms
| Home size | Median rent | Middle half of the market | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | £1,733 | £1,365 to £2,254 | 5,112 |
| 1 bed | £2,058 | £1,710 to £2,540 | 11,130 |
| 2 beds | £2,600 | £2,150 to £3,250 | 15,508 |
| 3 beds | £3,100 | £2,550 to £4,000 | 6,294 |
| 4 beds | £3,850 | £3,000 to £4,750 | 2,232 |
| 5 beds | £5,750 | £4,500 to £8,818 | 426 |
Monthly rents from 41,270 listings gathered from 8 March to 5 October 2026. The middle half is the 25th to 75th percentile: half of homes of that size sit inside it.
What a figure reaches
A median tells you what a size costs. If you already know what you can pay, these say how much of the market that reaches and which neighbourhoods hold it.
London rent prices, month by month.
Each listing counts once, in the month we first saw it, at the price it first asked. The latest month runs to 5 October 2026.
All sizesTwo-bed
| Month | Median rent, all sizes | Median rent, two-bed | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £2,600 | £2,745 | 5976 |
| July 2026 | £2,400 | £2,500 | 6191 |
| August 2026 | £2,500 | £2,600 | 4402 |
| September 2026 | £2,300 | £2,400 | 7541 |
| October 2026 | £2,500 | £2,600 | 8469 |
Between 4,402 and 8,469 listings a month, inside the same price band as every other figure here.
Most London prices never move. If they do, they go down.
Only 9% of the listings we track ever change price. When one does, it goes down 81% of the time, typically by 5.7%, or around £150 a month, and usually within about a month of us first seeing it.
So the number in the ad is usually final. If it is going to move, it will most likely have moved inside the first month.
Based on 3,275 reductions of 1% or more. Smaller moves are price-point changes, a £1,000 listing becoming £999, rather than a landlord meeting the market, so they are excluded. Timing is measured from when we first saw the listing, not when it was first advertised.
The gym in the lobby is a £797 membership.
What each feature adds to the rent, holding the borough and the number of bedrooms the same. A gym in the building is the most expensive line on a London listing. Furnished, once you compare like for like, is effectively free.
One number to trust the rest by: compare gardens naively and they look like a discount, because they cluster in cheaper outer boroughs. Hold the borough and the size constant and a garden adds +£32 a month. We compare like for like everywhere here, which is why the figures don't match the back-of-envelope version.
Average rent in London by borough.
Median rent by borough, cheapest to priciest, from £1,650 in Harrow to £3,350 in Westminster. Pick one for its own snapshot: the price ladder, the pace, and the neighbourhoods it clusters around.
| Borough | All sizes | One bed | Two bed | Three bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rent in Harrow | £1,650 | £1,600 | £1,945 | £2,423 |
| Rent in Croydon | £1,715 | £1,500 | £1,800 | £2,400 |
| Rent in Sutton | £1,750 | £1,400 | £1,800 | £2,350 |
| Rent in Barking and Dagenham | £1,850 | £1,500 | £1,900 | £2,295 |
| Rent in Bromley | £1,850 | £1,500 | £1,900 | £2,350 |
| Rent in Bexley | £1,850 | £1,438 | £1,700 | £2,200 |
| Rent in Havering | £1,888 | £1,400 | £1,800 | £2,300 |
| Rent in Redbridge | £1,899 | £1,500 | £1,850 | £2,400 |
| Rent in Enfield | £1,900 | £1,595 | £1,900 | £2,400 |
| Rent in Lewisham | £1,950 | £1,650 | £2,000 | £2,650 |
| Rent in Hillingdon | £1,955 | £1,600 | £1,999 | £2,450 |
| Rent in Barnet | £2,100 | £1,700 | £2,000 | £2,600 |
| Rent in Hounslow | £2,100 | £1,700 | £2,300 | £2,698 |
| Rent in Kingston upon Thames | £2,100 | £1,650 | £2,150 | £2,550 |
| Rent in Haringey | £2,200 | £1,800 | £2,250 | £2,700 |
| Rent in Ealing | £2,200 | £1,800 | £2,300 | £2,850 |
| Rent in Greenwich | £2,200 | £1,800 | £2,250 | £2,750 |
| Rent in Brent | £2,203 | £1,900 | £2,350 | £3,000 |
| Rent in Waltham Forest | £2,210 | £2,025 | £2,150 | £2,500 |
| Rent in Merton | £2,300 | £1,800 | £2,300 | £2,850 |
| Rent in Newham | £2,450 | £2,000 | £2,450 | £2,700 |
| Rent in Lambeth | £2,500 | £2,000 | £2,500 | £3,250 |
| Rent in Hackney | £2,595 | £2,195 | £2,750 | £3,500 |
| Rent in Tower Hamlets | £2,600 | £2,150 | £2,800 | £3,400 |
| Rent in Richmond upon Thames | £2,600 | £1,850 | £2,600 | £3,501 |
| Rent in Southwark | £2,700 | £2,250 | £2,750 | £3,450 |
| Rent in Wandsworth | £2,750 | £2,100 | £2,750 | £3,300 |
| Rent in Hammersmith and Fulham | £2,750 | £2,250 | £2,900 | £3,750 |
| Rent in Islington | £2,800 | £2,350 | £3,245 | £3,703 |
| Rent in City of London | £2,995 | £2,729 | £3,445 | – |
| Rent in Camden | £3,000 | £2,300 | £3,250 | £4,658 |
| Rent in Kensington and Chelsea | £3,250 | £2,817 | £3,879 | £5,997 |
| Rent in Westminster | £3,350 | £2,800 | £3,650 | £5,500 |
33 London boroughs, from Roost's own data. A dash means too few listings of that size in that borough to publish a median. Open any borough for its own breakdown.
Gathered from London’s letting agents, and from landlords who list directly, from 8 March to 5 October 2026. Snapshot taken 5 October 2026.
This is advertised London, not a census. It leans central and toward flats, because that’s what is being marketed, so read it as the market you’d actually be searching. These are asking rents, not the rent finally agreed. We use medians throughout; a mean is pulled upward by prime stock and would flatter every figure here.
"Days to gone" is measured from when we first saw a listing to when it left the market. Agents don't publish a reliable listing date, so we time from first sight, which makes the true figure slightly longer than the one shown.
Rents under £500 or over £15,000 a month are set aside as data errors or ultra-prime outliers. Commuter-belt districts that agents market as London are kept out of these London-wide numbers.
Rent in London: the questions people ask.
What is the average rent in London in 2026?
The median rent in London is £2,500 a month, across 41,270 listings we tracked in 33 London boroughs from 8 March to 5 October 2026. We quote the median rather than the mean because prime stock drags a mean upward; the median is what the middle of the market actually pays.
How much is rent in London by number of bedrooms?
By size, the median asking rent a month is: studio £1,733, one bed £2,058, two bed £2,600, three bed £3,100, four bed £3,850. The step from one bedroom to two is the biggest on the ladder. The table above gives the middle half of the market for each size.
What is the average rent for a one-bed flat in London?
The median one-bed in our snapshot is £2,058 a month, with the middle half of the market between £1,710 and £2,540. A two-bed steps up to £2,600, the biggest jump on the ladder.
Which London borough is cheapest to rent in?
Of the boroughs we publish, Harrow has the lowest median at £1,650 a month. Each borough page breaks that down by bedrooms, pace and neighbourhoods.
What are rent prices in London, UK?
Half of London homes are listed between £1,950 and £3,250 a month, with a median of £2,500. A one-bed is typically £2,058 and a two-bed £2,600. The table above gives every borough we cover, by size.
How much is rent in London per month for a 2 bed?
The median two-bed in our snapshot is £2,600 a month across 33 boroughs. It varies more by borough than by anything else: the borough table above lists a two-bed figure for each one that has enough listings to support a median.
Are London rents going up or down?
We can only speak to our window, 8 March to 5 October 2026: when a listed price moved, 81% of the 4,918 recorded moves were cuts. That’s listings repricing to meet the market, not an index of all rents, so read it as pressure at the edges rather than a citywide direction.
How quickly do London rentals go?
A quarter of the homes we tracked had left the market within 8 days of us first seeing them, and half within 21. We time from when we first see a home, not from the agent’s own listing date, so the true figures are slightly longer.
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