Renting in Merton, in numbers.
Here's what the Merton market says about what a home costs, how that changes with a bedroom, and what you get for the money.
Median rent
£2,250
a month, 10% below the London median
Typical two-bed
£2,250
the most common home here
Time on market
Not enough data
in this borough yet
Typical size
663 sq ft
where floor area is given
What a bedroom costs in Merton.
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 Merton a figure actually reaches, measured against the same listings.
Not enough has left the market here to time it yet.
We time listings from the day we first see them to the day they leave the market. For Merton we'd rather not print a number we can't yet stand behind.
When the price moves, it usually moves down.
Of the price changes we've recorded in Merton, 95% 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 Merton, it typically drops 7.1%, or about £155 a month, usually within 25 days of us first seeing the listing. Across London the typical fall is 6.1% and takes about 30 days, so Merton runs deeper than the London typical. Based on 39 reductions of 1% or more.
Merton rents around its stations.
The stations that come up most often as the nearest one to a Merton listing.
These numbers come from Roost's own pipeline: Merton listings gathered from estate agents across London between 8 March to 5 September 2026. Snapshot taken 5 September 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 Merton. 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 Merton.
The boroughs whose listings sit nearest Merton, closest first. Worth a look if your search is really about somewhere rather than exactly here.