Renting in Hackney, in numbers.
Here's what the Hackney market says about what a home costs, how fast it goes, and what you get for the money.
Median rent
£2,415
a month, 6% below the London median
Typical two-bed
£2,500
the most common home here
A quarter gone within
7 days
half within 19
Typical size
605 sq ft
where floor area is given
What a bedroom costs in Hackney.
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 Hackney is gone in 19 days.
Measured from the day we first saw a Hackney listing to the day it left the market. A quarter lasted 7 days or fewer; a quarter were still there after 50. Because we time from first sight rather than from the agent's own listing date, the real figure is a little shorter than this.
When the price moves, it usually moves down.
Of the price changes we've recorded in Hackney, 92% were reductions. Asking rents here soften after listing more often than they firm up, which is worth remembering before you treat the number in the ad as final.
Hackney rents around its stations.
The stations that come up most often as the nearest one to a Hackney listing.
These numbers come from Roost's own pipeline: Hackney listings gathered from estate agents across London between 8 March to 19 June 2026. Snapshot taken 17 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 Hackney. 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.
Hackney moves in 19 days. Roost tells you on day one.
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