Renting in Lambeth, in numbers.
Here's what the Lambeth market says about what a home costs, how that changes with a bedroom, and what you get for the money.
Median rent
£2,500
a month, level with London
Typical two-bed
£2,500
the most common home here
Time on market
6 days
a quarter had gone within 6 days of us first seeing them; half within 15
Typical size
659 sq ft
where floor area is given
What a bedroom costs in Lambeth.
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 Lambeth a figure actually reaches, measured against the same listings.
What Lambeth 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.
All sizesTwo-bed
| Month | Median rent, all sizes | Median rent, two-bed | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £2,700 | £2,600 | 341 |
| July 2026 | £2,750 | £2,600 | 271 |
| August 2026 | £2,600 | £2,600 | 236 |
| September 2026 | £2,500 | £2,550 | 326 |
| October 2026 | £2,500 | £2,500 | 457 |
Between 236 and 457 listings a month, inside the same price band as every other figure here.
Half of Lambeth has gone by day 15.
Measured from the day we first saw a Lambeth listing to the day it left the market, counting the ones still listed rather than only the ones already gone. A quarter had gone by day 6. Because we time from first sight rather than from the agent’s own listing date, the real figure is a little longer than this.
When the price moves, it usually moves down.
Of the price changes we've recorded in Lambeth, 89% 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.
When one does fall in Lambeth, it typically drops 5.4%, or about £150 a month, usually within 25 days of us first seeing the listing. Across London the typical fall is 5.7% and takes about 31 days, so Lambeth runs close to the London typical. Based on 183 reductions of 1% or more.
Lambeth rents around these neighbourhoods.
The neighbourhoods around the stations that come up most often as the nearest one to a Lambeth listing.
- Vauxhall
Also known as Nine Elms. Postcodes SW8 and SE11.
- Clapham
Also known as Clapham Common, Clapham High Street, Wandsworth Road, Clapham Common & Abbeville, Clapham Town and Clapham East. Postcode SW4.
- Stockwell
Also known as Stockwell East and Stockwell West & Larkhall. Postcodes SW8 and SW9.
- Streatham
Also known as Streatham Common, Streatham Hill, Streatham Hill East, Streatham Hill West & Thornton, Streatham Wells and Streatham Common & Vale. Postcodes SW16 and SW2.
- Herne Hill
Also known as Loughborough Junction, Herne Hill & Loughborough Junction and St Martin’s. Postcodes SE24, SW2 and SE5.
- Kennington
Postcodes SE11 and SE17.
These numbers come from Roost's own pipeline: Lambeth 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 Lambeth. 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 Lambeth.
The boroughs whose listings sit nearest Lambeth, closest first. Worth a look if your search is really about somewhere rather than exactly here.
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