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Budgets · The market

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.

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Studios

We watched 3,714 studios come onto the market since 8 March 2026. The typical one asked £1,750 a month.

£1,0005% of them were asking this or less, 174 homes out of 3,714.£1,20013% of them were asking this or less, 466 homes out of 3,714.£1,40028% of them were asking this or less, 1,048 homes out of 3,714.£1,60042% of them were asking this or less, 1,568 homes out of 3,714.£1,80054% of them were asking this or less, 2,010 homes out of 3,714.£2,00065% of them were asking this or less, 2,407 homes out of 3,714.£2,50082% of them were asking this or less, 3,044 homes out of 3,714.£3,00091% of them were asking this or less, 3,378 homes out of 3,714.£3,50095% of them were asking this or less, 3,540 homes out of 3,714.£4,00097% of them were asking this or less, 3,606 homes out of 3,714.

One-bedroom homes

We watched 7,278 one-bedroom homes come onto the market since 8 March 2026. The typical one asked £2,001 a month.

£1,000under 1% of them were asking this or less, 52 homes out of 7,278.£1,2002% of them were asking this or less, 111 homes out of 7,278.£1,4006% of them were asking this or less, 458 homes out of 7,278.£1,60018% of them were asking this or less, 1,339 homes out of 7,278.£1,80034% of them were asking this or less, 2,478 homes out of 7,278.£2,00050% of them were asking this or less, 3,639 homes out of 7,278.£2,50075% of them were asking this or less, 5,434 homes out of 7,278.£3,00088% of them were asking this or less, 6,408 homes out of 7,278.£3,50094% of them were asking this or less, 6,851 homes out of 7,278.£4,00097% of them were asking this or less, 7,052 homes out of 7,278.

Two-bedroom homes

We watched 9,936 two-bedroom homes come onto the market since 8 March 2026. The typical one asked £2,650 a month.

£1,6002% of them were asking this or less, 163 homes out of 9,936.£1,8008% of them were asking this or less, 753 homes out of 9,936.£2,00018% of them were asking this or less, 1,822 homes out of 9,936.£2,50045% of them were asking this or less, 4,477 homes out of 9,936.£3,00067% of them were asking this or less, 6,687 homes out of 9,936.£3,50081% of them were asking this or less, 8,022 homes out of 9,936.£4,00088% of them were asking this or less, 8,778 homes out of 9,936.£5,00095% of them were asking this or less, 9,447 homes out of 9,936.

Three-bedroom homes

We watched 4,004 three-bedroom homes come onto the market since 8 March 2026. The typical one asked £3,250 a month.

£1,8001% of them were asking this or less, 51 homes out of 4,004.£2,0004% of them were asking this or less, 145 homes out of 4,004.£2,50021% of them were asking this or less, 836 homes out of 4,004.£3,00044% of them were asking this or less, 1,751 homes out of 4,004.£3,50061% of them were asking this or less, 2,429 homes out of 4,004.£4,00072% of them were asking this or less, 2,896 homes out of 4,004.£5,00084% of them were asking this or less, 3,380 homes out of 4,004.

Four-bedroom homes

We watched 1,351 four-bedroom homes come onto the market since 8 March 2026. The typical one asked £4,000 a month.

£2,5006% of them were asking this or less, 86 homes out of 1,351.£3,00021% of them were asking this or less, 280 homes out of 1,351.£3,50035% of them were asking this or less, 477 homes out of 1,351.£4,00050% of them were asking this or less, 681 homes out of 1,351.£5,00076% of them were asking this or less, 1,032 homes out of 1,351.

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 estate agents across London since 8 March 2026, which is about 5 months of watching: 8 March to 5 September 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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