N° 01Kensington and Chelsea · The market

Renting in Kensington and Chelsea, in numbers.

Here's what the Kensington and Chelsea market says about what a home costs, how fast it goes, and what you get for the money.

Median rent

£3,300

a month, 28% above the London median

Typical two-bed

£3,900

the most common home here

A quarter gone within

21 days

half within 35

Typical size

597 sq ft

where floor area is given

N° 02The price ladder

What a bedroom costs in Kensington and Chelsea.

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.

Studio
£2,254
1 bed
£2,817
2 beds
£3,900
3 beds
£6,000
£0£10,000

Middle half of the marketMedian

N° 03The pace

Half of Kensington and Chelsea is gone in 35 days.

Measured from the day we first saw a Kensington and Chelsea listing to the day it left the market. A quarter lasted 21 days or fewer; a quarter were still there after 54. Because we time from first sight rather than from the agent's own listing date, the real figure is a little shorter than this.

N° 04The haggle

When the price moves, it usually moves down.

Of the price changes we've recorded in Kensington and Chelsea, 97% 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.

N° 05Where they cluster

Kensington and Chelsea rents around its stations.

The stations that come up most often as the nearest one to a Kensington and Chelsea listing.

South KensingtonGloucester RoadSloane SquareNotting Hill GateLadbroke GroveKnightsbridge
N° 06How to read this

These numbers come from Roost's own pipeline: Kensington and Chelsea 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 Kensington and Chelsea. 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.

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