Renting in Westminster, in numbers.
Here's what the Westminster market says about what a home costs, how that changes with a bedroom, and what you get for the money.
Median rent
£3,350
a month, 34% above the London median
Typical two-bed
£3,650
the most common home here
Time on market
11 days
a quarter had gone within 11 days of us first seeing them; half within 28
Typical size
687 sq ft
where floor area is given
What a bedroom costs in Westminster.
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 Westminster a figure actually reaches, measured against the same listings.
What Westminster 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 | £3,510 | £3,877 | 585 |
| July 2026 | £3,467 | £3,500 | 413 |
| August 2026 | £3,467 | £3,600 | 345 |
| September 2026 | £3,200 | £3,600 | 347 |
| October 2026 | £3,224 | £3,350 | 535 |
Between 345 and 585 listings a month, inside the same price band as every other figure here.
Half of Westminster has gone by day 28.
Measured from the day we first saw a Westminster 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 11. 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 Westminster, 86% 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 Westminster, it typically drops 5.7%, or about £210 a month, usually within 38 days of us first seeing the listing. Across London the typical fall is 5.7% and takes about 31 days, so Westminster runs close to the London typical. Based on 222 reductions of 1% or more.
Westminster rents around these neighbourhoods.
The neighbourhoods around the stations that come up most often as the nearest one to a Westminster listing.
- Lancaster Gate
Also known as Bayswater, Queensway and Royal Oak. Postcode W2.
- St John’s Wood
Also known as Saint John’s Wood, Regent’s Park, Baker Street and Abbey Road. Postcodes NW8 and NW1.
Stations nearby: Pimlico, Warwick Avenue, Sloane Square, Knightsbridge.
These numbers come from Roost's own pipeline: Westminster 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 Westminster. 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 Westminster.
The boroughs whose listings sit nearest Westminster, closest first. Worth a look if your search is really about somewhere rather than exactly here.
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