Renting in City of London, in numbers.
Here's what the City of London market says about what a home costs, how that changes with a bedroom, and what you get for the money.
Median rent
£2,995
a month, 20% above the London median
Typical two-bed
£3,445
the most common home here
Typical size
583 sq ft
where floor area is given
What a bedroom costs in City of London.
Median asking rent, with the middle half of the market shown as a bar. Only sizes with enough listings to be worth a number appear.
Middle half of the marketMedian
What a budget reaches here
A median says what a size costs. This says how much of City of London a figure actually reaches, measured against the same listings.
What City of London asked, 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.
| Month | Median rent, all sizes | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £3,100 | 35 |
| July 2026 | £3,000 | 39 |
| August 2026 | £2,750 | 31 |
| September 2026 | £2,850 | 25 |
Between 25 and 39 listings a month, inside the same price band as every other figure here.
Too few price moves here to call it.
We haven't recorded enough price changes in City of London to describe a pattern, so we won't pretend to.
City of London rents around these neighbourhoods.
The neighbourhoods around the stations that come up most often as the nearest one to a City of London listing.
- Barbican
Also known as Cripplegate. Postcodes EC2Y and EC1Y.
- St Paul’s
Also known as Saint Paul’s, Blackfriars, City Thameslink, Farringdon Within, Castle Baynard and Cordwainer. Postcode EC4V.
Stations nearby: Mansion House, Chancery Lane.
These numbers come from Roost's own pipeline: City of London listings gathered from estate agents across London between 8 March to 5 October 2026. Snapshot taken 5 October 2026.
It's what agents are marketing, not a census. It skews toward flats and toward the agents whose sites we watch, so it describes the market you'd actually meet while searching, not every home in City of London. Medians throughout, because a handful of prime listings pull an average upward and tell you nothing about your search.
Rents below £500 or above £15,000 a month are set aside as data errors or ultra-prime outliers. Where a figure would rest on too few listings to trust, we leave it blank rather than guess.
Closest to City of London.
The boroughs whose listings sit nearest City of London, closest first. Worth a look if your search is really about somewhere rather than exactly here.
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