Renting in City of London, in numbers.
Here's what the City of London market says about what a home costs, how fast it goes, and what you get for the money.
Median rent
£3,100
a month, 24% above the London median
Typical two-bed
£3,467
the most common home here
A quarter gone within
12 days
half within 21
Typical size
604 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
Half of City of London is gone in 21 days.
Measured from the day we first saw a City of London listing to the day it left the market. A quarter lasted 12 days or fewer; a quarter were still there after 28. Because we time from first sight rather than from the agent's own listing date, the real figure is a little shorter than this.
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 its stations.
The stations that come up most often as the nearest one to a City of London listing.
These numbers come from Roost's own pipeline: City of London listings gathered from estate agents across London between 8 March to 30 July 2026. Snapshot taken 31 July 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.
City of London moves in 21 days. Roost tells you on day one.
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