Renting in Southwark, in numbers.
Here's what the Southwark market says about what a home costs, how that changes with a bedroom, and what you get for the money.
Median rent
£2,700
a month, 8% above the London median
Typical two-bed
£2,750
the most common home here
Time on market
6 days
a quarter had gone within 6 days of us first seeing them; half within 18
Typical size
680 sq ft
where floor area is given
What a bedroom costs in Southwark.
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 Southwark a figure actually reaches, measured against the same listings.
What Southwark 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 | £2,800 | £2,800 | 306 |
| July 2026 | £2,700 | £2,750 | 315 |
| August 2026 | £2,750 | £2,750 | 216 |
| September 2026 | £2,500 | £2,650 | 286 |
| October 2026 | £2,720 | £2,750 | 439 |
Between 216 and 439 listings a month, inside the same price band as every other figure here.
Half of Southwark has gone by day 18.
Measured from the day we first saw a Southwark 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 Southwark, 83% 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 Southwark, it typically drops 5.3%, or about £150 a month, usually within 35 days of us first seeing the listing. Across London the typical fall is 5.7% and takes about 31 days, so Southwark runs close to the London typical. Based on 195 reductions of 1% or more.
Southwark rents around these neighbourhoods.
The neighbourhoods around the stations that come up most often as the nearest one to a Southwark listing.
- Canada Water
Also known as Surrey Quays and Surrey Docks. Postcode SE16.
- Elephant & Castle
Also known as Elephant and Castle, Chaucer and North Walworth. Postcodes SE1 and SE17.
- Peckham
Also known as Peckham Rye and Rye Lane. Postcode SE15.
- Camberwell
Also known as Denmark Hill, Camberwell Green and St Giles. Postcode SE5.
- Bermondsey
Also known as North Bermondsey. Postcodes SE16 and SE1.
Stations nearby: Borough.
These numbers come from Roost's own pipeline: Southwark 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 Southwark. 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 Southwark.
The boroughs whose listings sit nearest Southwark, closest first. Worth a look if your search is really about somewhere rather than exactly here.
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