Renting in London
Median asking rent · all sizes · 4,916 live listings · October 2026
Rent in London before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in London is £2,300 a month, from 4,916 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £1,800/moasking · 1,675 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £2,450/moasking · 1,491 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £2,995/moasking · 811 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £3,900/moasking · 778 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £975/moasking · 108 listings · Oct 2026 |
Asking rents from live listings on Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders · Updated . Weekly prices normalised to monthly. Each figure counts the live listings behind it; rooms are per room.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent in London by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/london, updated 29 October 2026.
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Renting in London
London currently has 5,024 rental listings on the property sites we track, 4,916 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in London is £2,300 a month, from 4,916 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 1,239 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 13% are houses and the rest are flats. How we measure this
Rents vary sharply by postcode. Median asking rents for homes of all sizes run from £1,275 a month in CR4 (6 live listings) to £12,068 in W8 (15 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in London (Dwellio, October 2026). For a wider view of where the UK’s cheapest rents are, see our guide to the cheapest cities to rent in the UK.
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Rent by property size
Median monthly asking rent for each property size in London, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in London is £1,800 a month, 22% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 1,675 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in London is £2,450 a month, 7% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 1,491 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in London is £2,995 a month, 30% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 811 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in London is £3,900 a month, 70% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 778 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in London is £975 a month, from 108 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
Medians exclude prices that fail our junk-listing floor. Room rents are per room, not per property. Each size needs at least 10 live listings. Studio figures are hidden for now: listings whose bedroom count we couldn’t read were being counted as studios. How we measure this
By borough
Median asking rent in each of the 18 London boroughs and areas we track, for homes of all sizes and for 1-, 2- and 3-bed homes, cheapest first. Each name links to that borough’s rents and new listings.
| Borough | All sizes | 1-bed | 2-bed | 3-bed | Alerts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Croydon | £1,650all sizes · 1,582 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £1,4001-bed · 569 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £1,7502-bed · 514 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,3003-bed · 241 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Bromley | £1,800all sizes · 371 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £1,4001-bed · 95 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £1,8002-bed · 195 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,2003-bed · 42 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Lewisham | £1,900all sizes · 1,150 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £1,6251-bed · 415 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,1002-bed · 409 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,5503-bed · 132 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Ealing | £2,100all sizes · 1,201 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £1,6501-bed · 342 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,2502-bed · 430 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,7003-bed · 166 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Haringey | £2,195all sizes · 2,121 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £1,7001-bed · 720 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,3002-bed · 699 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,7003-bed · 314 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Brent | £2,200all sizes · 2,076 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £1,7501-bed · 620 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,3002-bed · 679 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,8003-bed · 319 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Newham | £2,250all sizes · 1,957 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £1,8501-bed · 565 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,2502-bed · 688 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,6003-bed · 442 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Greenwich | £2,350all sizes · 618 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £1,9001-bed · 188 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,4002-bed · 281 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £3,0003-bed · 102 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Lambeth | £2,500all sizes · 1,556 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £1,9501-bed · 473 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,6002-bed · 582 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £3,4503-bed · 258 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Tower Hamlets | £2,500all sizes · 2,006 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,1001-bed · 709 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,6502-bed · 782 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £3,3003-bed · 256 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Hackney | £2,650all sizes · 1,238 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,1301-bed · 417 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,8502-bed · 488 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £3,7503-bed · 169 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Wandsworth | £2,750all sizes · 1,896 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,0001-bed · 514 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,7502-bed · 803 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £3,5003-bed · 314 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Islington | £2,800all sizes · 1,567 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,2501-bed · 528 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £3,2002-bed · 564 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £3,9003-bed · 215 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Southwark | £2,800all sizes · 1,517 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,2001-bed · 456 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,9382-bed · 649 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £3,6903-bed · 223 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Hammersmith | £2,900all sizes · 871 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,2001-bed · 258 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £3,6052-bed · 347 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £4,2503-bed · 88 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Camden | £3,120all sizes · 2,066 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,2501-bed · 546 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £3,2502-bed · 632 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £5,0003-bed · 434 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Fulham | £3,200all sizes · 911 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,5001-bed · 273 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £3,2502-bed · 371 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £5,2373-bed · 108 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | |
| Westminster | £4,004all sizes · 2,127 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £2,9211-bed · 527 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £4,5002-bed · 713 listingsasking · Oct 2026 | £6,8473-bed · 493 listingsasking · Oct 2026 |
Source: Dwellio, median asking rent of the live whole-home listings we track on five property sites, October 2026. Asking rents on homes to let now, not rents tenants pay. A size needs at least 30 live listings in this table, and a 2- or 3-bed figure more than 5% below a smaller size’s is left blank; a blank “all sizes” figure didn’t fit the borough’s 1- to 3-bed figures. Hammersmith and Fulham are one borough, listed as the two areas they have pages for. Cheapest boroughs on the UK rental index. How we measure this
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent by London borough and size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/london, updated 29 October 2026.
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Rent trend · ONS PIPR
The ONS average rent paid in London is £2,338 a month, up 3.5% on a year earlier, across private tenancies of all sizes (Office for National Statistics, September 2026). The Office for National Statistics’ Price Index of Private Rents is the official series for rents being paid, including long-running tenancies; Dwellio’s figures above are asking rents.
Annual
+3.5%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+36%
since 2021
Source: Office for National Statistics · Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR). Updated monthly with a ~2-month lag. ONS uses Broad Rental Market Areas in Scotland — figures may aggregate beyond the city itself. How we measure this
Affordability · ONS ASHE
Renters in London spend an estimated 71% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£39,778/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
71%
Severely stretched — most local renters need a flatmate or supplement income.
Sources: Office for National Statistics — Price Index of Private Rents (latest month) and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings Table 8.7a (median annual gross pay, place of residence). The 30% line is the conventional rent-burden threshold above which housing costs are considered to crowd out other essentials. How we measure this
Property types
84% of listings
13% of listings
3% of listings
0% of listings
Property mix · houses
Other house houses make up 70% of the 457 houses currently advertised in London.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 1,629 live listings in 121 districts (October 2026). Districts with fewer than 3 listings are skipped to avoid skew from a single luxury rental; rooms in shared houses are left out.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent by postcode district in London, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/london, updated 29 October 2026.
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Features · London
Live signal across 5,024 London rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
45%
of 3,603 London listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
39%
of 3,577 London listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
1,239 homes came onto the London rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
1 bed property
Hounslow Road, Feltham TW14
Studio property
New Horizons Court, Brentford TW8
1 bed flat/apartment
1 Bed Maisonette, Penwith Road, SW18
2 bed flat/apartment
Dewey Lane, London, SW2
1 bed property
Draper House, Aerodrome Road, Colindale NW9
5 bed room
3 bed house
2 bed flat/apartment
4 bed house
3 bed room
3 bed room
5 bed room
3 bed room
2 bed house
2 bed room
1 bed room
1 bed room
6 bed room
Room in a Shared House, Crofton Road, SE5
1 bed flat/apartment
1 bed flat/apartment
1 bed flat/apartment
1 bed flat/apartment
1 bed flat/apartment
Westferry Road, London, E14
1 bed flat/apartment
Thicket Road, London, SE20
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for London. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most London homes sit in Band C. The weighted average works out close to Band C–D across 3,815,360 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
C
most common band
Mean band
3.91
≈ Band C–D
Stock
3815k
3,815,360 properties
Source: HM Valuation Office Agency — Council Tax Stock of Properties (CTSOP1.0), extract dated 31 March 2024. Covers England and Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland use separate band schemes and aren't included.
Broadband · Ofcom Connected Nations
75% of London premises can already get full-fibre and 90% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
75%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
90%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
99%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
468 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Greater London (aggregated)), July 2025, covering 3,782,866 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
52% of London homes hold a current EPC in bands A–C — the bands that meet the proposed 2030 minimum energy-efficiency standard for rented stock.
Bands A–C
52%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
48%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
3.5M
3,479,871 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under London. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
15 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the London centroid. The five closest:
Soho Parish CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · W1D 7LF
St Clement Danes CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · WC2B 5SU
Harris Westminster Sixth Form
16 plus · Free schools 16 to 19 · SW1H 9LH
St Josephs Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · WC2B 5NA
St Matthew's School, Westminster
Primary · Voluntary aided school · SW1P 2DG
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the London centroid. Ofsted ratings were removed from GIAS in January 2025 and aren't available here.
Area safety
Based on the latest police data (October 2026), London has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 100 of 100 postcode districts analysed, the median was 649 reported crimes per area. The most common category in London is Violent crime, accounting for 32% of all incidents.
London’s overall figures sit above the national median, but crime varies a lot by neighbourhood. Dwellio alerts include the area’s data so you can pick the right street.
Data from data.police.uk, updated monthly. Contains public-sector information licensed under OGL v3.0.
Area breakdown
Street-level crime counts from data.police.uk for August 2026, covering a ~1 mile radius around each suburb centre. Figures are normalised per 1,000 residents so you can compare neighbourhoods fairly.
Most common: Violent crime (338) · pop. ~270,000
Most common: Anti-social behaviour (373) · pop. ~281,000
Most common: Violent crime (428) · pop. ~242,000
Most common: Anti-social behaviour (422) · pop. ~317,000
Most common: Other theft (440) · pop. ~318,000
Suburbs shown are representative populated areas; figures reflect street-level incidents within ~1 mile of each centre. Data from data.police.uk. Contains public-sector information licensed under OGL v3.0.
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Frequently asked
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in London is £2,300 a month, from 4,916 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in London is £1,800 a month, 22% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 1,675 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in London is £2,450 a month, 7% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 1,491 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in London is £2,995 a month, 30% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 811 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in London is £3,900 a month, 70% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 778 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in London is £975 a month, from 108 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 5,024 rental properties available in London, with 1,239 new listings added in the last 7 days.
London has a higher crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 649 reported crimes per postcode area (October 2026). The most common category is Violent crime. Data from data.police.uk.
The most commonly reported crime category in London is Violent crime, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across the capital
London compared with the rest of Greater London — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
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Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across London boroughs, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/london, updated 29 October 2026.
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