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What your budget actually reaches.

A monthly figure is the first thing anyone decides and the last thing anyone gets told about. Every published rent number is a median, and a median says what a home costs rather than whether the one you can afford exists.

So here is the other way round. Pick a size and a figure, and see how much of the London market it reached since 8 March 2026, which neighbourhoods held it, and what one adjustment would open up.

For the medians themselves, by size and by borough, see the average rent in London.

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Studios

We watched 5,112 studios come onto the market since 8 March 2026. The typical one asked £1,733 a month.

£1,0004% of them were asking this or less, 214 homes out of 5,112.£1,20014% of them were asking this or less, 700 homes out of 5,112.£1,40029% of them were asking this or less, 1,500 homes out of 5,112.£1,60044% of them were asking this or less, 2,247 homes out of 5,112.£1,80055% of them were asking this or less, 2,837 homes out of 5,112.£2,00066% of them were asking this or less, 3,363 homes out of 5,112.£2,50083% of them were asking this or less, 4,231 homes out of 5,112.£3,00092% of them were asking this or less, 4,690 homes out of 5,112.£3,50096% of them were asking this or less, 4,898 homes out of 5,112.£4,00097% of them were asking this or less, 4,980 homes out of 5,112.

One-bedroom homes

We watched 11,130 one-bedroom homes come onto the market since 8 March 2026. The typical one asked £2,058 a month.

£1,200under 1% of them were asking this or less, 109 homes out of 11,130.£1,4006% of them were asking this or less, 655 homes out of 11,130.£1,60018% of them were asking this or less, 2,003 homes out of 11,130.£1,80033% of them were asking this or less, 3,722 homes out of 11,130.£2,00049% of them were asking this or less, 5,453 homes out of 11,130.£2,50075% of them were asking this or less, 8,308 homes out of 11,130.£3,00089% of them were asking this or less, 9,854 homes out of 11,130.£3,50094% of them were asking this or less, 10,508 homes out of 11,130.£4,00097% of them were asking this or less, 10,797 homes out of 11,130.

Two-bedroom homes

We watched 15,508 two-bedroom homes come onto the market since 8 March 2026. The typical one asked £2,600 a month.

£1,6002% of them were asking this or less, 260 homes out of 15,508.£1,8009% of them were asking this or less, 1,370 homes out of 15,508.£2,00021% of them were asking this or less, 3,200 homes out of 15,508.£2,50048% of them were asking this or less, 7,483 homes out of 15,508.£3,00070% of them were asking this or less, 10,869 homes out of 15,508.£3,50083% of them were asking this or less, 12,839 homes out of 15,508.£4,00090% of them were asking this or less, 13,966 homes out of 15,508.£5,00096% of them were asking this or less, 14,925 homes out of 15,508.

Three-bedroom homes

We watched 6,294 three-bedroom homes come onto the market since 8 March 2026. The typical one asked £3,100 a month.

£1,800under 1% of them were asking this or less, 57 homes out of 6,294.£2,0004% of them were asking this or less, 247 homes out of 6,294.£2,50024% of them were asking this or less, 1,540 homes out of 6,294.£3,00048% of them were asking this or less, 3,050 homes out of 6,294.£3,50065% of them were asking this or less, 4,086 homes out of 6,294.£4,00076% of them were asking this or less, 4,788 homes out of 6,294.£5,00088% of them were asking this or less, 5,527 homes out of 6,294.

Four-bedroom homes

We watched 2,232 four-bedroom homes come onto the market since 8 March 2026. The typical one asked £3,850 a month.

£2,5007% of them were asking this or less, 148 homes out of 2,232.£3,00026% of them were asking this or less, 575 homes out of 2,232.£3,50042% of them were asking this or less, 936 homes out of 2,232.£4,00057% of them were asking this or less, 1,274 homes out of 2,232.£5,00082% of them were asking this or less, 1,826 homes out of 2,232.

Each of these is a question asked once, against the last few months. Roost asks it every day on your behalf and tells you the morning the answer changes.

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How to read this

Each share is a count divided by the number of listings behind it, and both are printed on the page it belongs to. The listings are gathered from letting agents, and from landlords who list directly, across London since 8 March 2026, which is about 6 months of watching: 8 March to 5 October 2026.

It is a running total of what has been advertised over that window rather than a count of what is free today, so a share answers "how much of the market has been coming up at my budget" and not "what can I view this weekend".

A size and figure only gets a page when enough homes sat at or below it to be worth reading. Where they did not, there is no page, because a share resting on a handful of homes is a number nobody should lean on.

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