Renting in Tower Hamlets, in numbers.
Here's what the Tower Hamlets market says about what a home costs, how that changes with a bedroom, and what you get for the money.
Median rent
£2,600
a month, 4% above the London median
Typical two-bed
£2,800
the most common home here
Time on market
8 days
a quarter had gone within 8 days of us first seeing them; half within 21
Typical size
626 sq ft
where floor area is given
What a bedroom costs in Tower Hamlets.
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 Tower Hamlets a figure actually reaches, measured against the same listings.
What Tower Hamlets 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 | £2,750 | £2,900 | 439 |
| July 2026 | £2,600 | £2,800 | 264 |
| August 2026 | £2,750 | £3,200 | 255 |
| September 2026 | £2,500 | £2,700 | 439 |
| October 2026 | £2,750 | £2,850 | 576 |
Between 255 and 576 listings a month, inside the same price band as every other figure here.
Half of Tower Hamlets has gone by day 21.
Measured from the day we first saw a Tower Hamlets 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 8. 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 Tower Hamlets, 88% 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 Tower Hamlets, it typically drops 5.7%, or about £150 a month, usually within 33 days of us first seeing the listing. Across London the typical fall is 5.7% and takes about 31 days, so Tower Hamlets runs close to the London typical. Based on 218 reductions of 1% or more.
Tower Hamlets rents around these neighbourhoods.
The neighbourhoods around the stations that come up most often as the nearest one to a Tower Hamlets listing.
- Canary Wharf
Also known as Heron Quays and West India Quay. Postcode E14.
- Whitechapel
Also known as Aldgate East, Spitalfields and Spitalfields & Banglatown. Postcode E1.
- Bow
Also known as Bow Road, Bow Church, Bromley-by-Bow, Bow East, Bow West and Bromley North. Postcodes E3 and E15.
- Bethnal Green
Also known as Cambridge Heath, Stepney Green, Bethnal Green West and Bethnal Green East. Postcodes E2 and E1.
- Limehouse
Also known as Shadwell, Stepney, Stepney Green, Tower Hill, Westferry and St Dunstan’s. Postcodes E1, E14 and E1W.
These numbers come from Roost's own pipeline: Tower Hamlets 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 Tower Hamlets. 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 Tower Hamlets.
The boroughs whose listings sit nearest Tower Hamlets, closest first. Worth a look if your search is really about somewhere rather than exactly here.
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