What London actually costs.
We watch London's estate agents all day. This is what 11,030 listings across 33 boroughs say about the price of a home here, and how quickly it disappears.
Jump to your boroughMedian rent
£2,578
a month, all sizes
Typical two-bed
£2,750
the most common London home
A quarter gone within
10 days
half within 27
Price moves that were cuts
85%
of 1,911 changes
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
The gym in the lobby is a £945 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 +£297 a month. We compare like for like everywhere here, which is why the figures don't match the back-of-envelope version.
Every borough, looked after.
Median rent by borough, cheapest to priciest, from £1,538 in Harrow to £3,445 in Westminster. Pick one for its own snapshot: the price ladder, the pace, and the stations it clusters around.
24 London boroughs, from Roost's own data. Tap any to open it.
Gathered from London estate agents between 8 March to 19 June 2026. Snapshot taken 17 July 2026.
This is agency-marketed London, not a census. It leans central and toward flats, because that's what agents are marketing, so read it as the market you'd actually be searching. 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 shorter 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.
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