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      Renting in London, everything you need to know before renting a home in London!

      Rental properties in London

      London, the bustling capital of the United Kingdom, offers an extensive variety of homes. From characteristic Victorian terraced houses to modern apartments with stunning views on the Thames, rentals in London cater to a wide range of preferences. In this cosmopolitan city, there is something for everyone—whether you're a student, young professional, or a family looking for a rental property. Due to its ancient history, London showcases a mix of architectural styles, from historic monuments to modern skyscrapers.

      But like every big city, living in London comes with a price. With the current housing market, the average rent in London is around £2,200 per month. Prices vary greatly by neighbourhood. In more affordable areas like Paddington (£1,500 p.m.) and Earl’s Court (£1,625 p.m.), you'll find more affordable homes, while in exclusive areas like Mayfair (£4,656 p.m.) and Chelsea (£4,700 p.m.), the average rent for a one-bedroom property is a lot more expensive. To secure rentals in London, a salary of approximately three times the monthly rent is usually required. The average annual salary in London is around £46,000.

      Districts in London

      London is divided into more than 30 different neighbourhoods, each with its own character and amenities. The upscale area of South-Kensington is renowned for its famous National Historic Museum and the Hyde Park. For those seeking an artistic and creative atmosphere, Notting Hill is a vibrant option with numerous galleries and trendy cafes.

      Finding your new home in London

      London, with its fusion of rich history and contemporary conveniences, captivates a diverse spectrum of prospective residents. Receive instant email alerts for new listings with rentaroof! This way, you'll be one of the first to know and have the chance to respond promptly. Check out the current listings in London and start your search for your dream home in this dynamic city today!

      Whether you are looking for a traditional house or a modern flat in London, you can find it at Rentaroof!

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      Written by: Eva van der Vlies

      Frequently asked questions about London

      How do I find a place to rent in London?

      Given the housing crunch in the UK, kicking off your search sooner rather than later is key! With rentaroof's email alerts, you'll stay ahead of the game, with the newest listings tailored to your needs. We scour through a 3,500 websites daily, giving you the best options that match your search criteria.

      Is London expensive to live in?

      London is known for its high cost of living compared to many other cities in the UK. With an average rent of £2,200 per month, costs can be notably higher in London than in other parts of the country. However, the cost of living can vary depending on factors such as the neighborhood you choose to live in. In cheaper neighborhoods, you can find rentals with an average price around £1500 a month. While London offers a wide range of amenities, cultural experiences, and career opportunities, it's essential to budget and plan accordingly to manage the expenses associated with living in the city.

      Which parts of London are good to live in?

      London boasts over 30 different neighbourhoods, each with its own character. Some popular areas to live in include:

      What is London known for?

      In London, iconic landmarks beckon with their timeless allure. Big Ben, its imposing presence, shares the skyline with the elegant Buckingham Palace. Meanwhile, the London Eye offers a modern vantage point, showcasing the city's dynamic spirit. These symbols, each unique, weave together the vibrant narrative of London's rich history and captivating present.

      Is it worth it to move to London?

      London offers a plethora of opportunities in various fields, including finance, arts, culture, and education. The city's vibrant multiculturalism, rich history, and diverse neighborhoods appeal to many. However, it's essential to consider factors such as the high cost of living, competitive job market, and potential challenges associated with urban living, such as congestion and housing availability.

      What is the cheapest area to live in London

      More affordable areas in London are districts like Paddington (£1,500 p.m.) and Earl’s court (£1,625 p.m.).

      Is London easy to access?

      London is relatively easy to access, thanks to its extensive transportation network. The city is served by several airports. Additionally, London has an efficient public transportation system, including the Underground (Tube), buses, trains, and trams, making it easy to navigate within the city and its surrounding areas. Overall, the city's transportation infrastructure facilitates convenient access for residents, commuters, and visitors alike.

      Average rental prices in London

      Area Properties
      Anerley 20 £1,315
      Catford South 33 £1,417
      Ponders End 21 £1,443
      Barking Riverside 22 £1,503
      Becontree Heath 33 £1,521
      Edmonton 93 £1,552
      Hayes 80 £1,555
      Shooters Hill 21 £1,565
      Cricklewood 102 £1,579
      Enfield 23 £1,584
      Woodside 27 £1,592
      Plashet 43 £1,608
      Rayners Lane 67 £1,623
      West Drayton 39 £1,626
      Yeading 31 £1,632
      Becontree 24 £1,636
      Little Ilford 20 £1,640
      Northwood 94 £1,646
      Selhurst 40 £1,650
      Pinner 49 £1,659
      Newbury Park 37 £1,660
      Norbury 21 £1,671
      Hendon Central 73 £1,675
      Stepney 181 £1,695
      Plaistow 66 £1,698
      Lampton 43 £1,707
      Hounslow West 30 £1,708
      Feltham 31 £1,711
      Abbey Wood 25 £1,713
      Waddon 65 £1,733
      Honor Oak 24 £1,734
      Thornton Heath 68 £1,737
      Wealdstone 63 £1,741
      Thames View 53 £1,756
      Highams Park 23 £1,760
      Charlton 32 £1,779
      Yiewsley 33 £1,784
      Mitcham 53 £1,785
      Thamesmead 26 £1,786
      Shortlands 28 £1,788
      Carshalton Beeches 29 £1,788
      Greenford 32 £1,791
      Redbridge 29 £1,795
      Southall Green 47 £1,798
      Bowes 24 £1,804
      Cyprus 40 £1,814
      New Southgate 22 £1,820
      Whitton 31 £1,821
      Chingford 27 £1,824
      Southgate 26 £1,826
      Palmers Green 44 £1,836
      Plumstead 41 £1,836
      Harrow Weald 44 £1,837
      Leyton 103 £1,841
      Broad Green 151 £1,848
      Perry Vale 42 £1,867
      West Norwood 66 £1,880
      Brockley 30 £1,881
      Tulse Hill 30 £1,900
      Hillingdon 68 £1,902
      St Paul's Cray 20 £1,910
      Addiscombe 56 £1,910
      Benhilton 61 £1,915
      South Norwood 29 £1,915
      Harringay 103 £1,922
      Gidea Park 37 £1,925
      Finchley 39 £1,930
      Collier's Wood 52 £1,933
      North Wembley 20 £1,939
      Spring Grove 59 £1,942
      Crystal Palace 31 £1,946
      Hammersmith and Fulham 22 £1,946
      Ladywell 78 £1,956
      Beckenham 28 £1,962
      Maryland 37 £1,967
      Ealing 40 £1,970
      Kenton 36 £1,974
      South Harrow 28 £1,976
      Hither Green 52 £1,992
      New Cross 73 £1,999
      Worton 42 £2,010
      New Cross Gate 58 £2,016
      West Green 100 £2,024
      Gants Hill 65 £2,030
      Blackheath 30 £2,034
      Purley 49 £2,036
      Sudbury 44 £2,053
      Tottenham 155 £2,056
      Southbury 45 £2,058
      South Woodford 26 £2,062
      Cowley 43 £2,064
      Upton Park 36 £2,068
      Leytonstone 49 £2,086
      Alperton 56 £2,112
      North Woolwich 32 £2,113
      Deptford 53 £2,114
      Beckton 32 £2,117
      Twickenham 51 £2,125
      East Greenwich 137 £2,126
      Crofton 20 £2,128
      Brunswick Park 22 £2,132
      West Ham 36 £2,134
      Norbiton 117 £2,136
      Wanstead Slip 21 £2,145
      Berrylands 23 £2,154
      Harrow on the Hill 51 £2,156
      Isleworth 42 £2,160
      Stroud Green 30 £2,161
      Hampton Hill 40 £2,166
      Colindale 140 £2,170
      Tooting Graveney 49 £2,174
      West Hendon 45 £2,187
      Bow 135 £2,195
      High Barnet 24 £2,199
      Hendon 65 £2,200
      Kidbrooke 72 £2,212
      Perivale 48 £2,213
      Forest Hill 62 £2,231
      Finsbury Park 67 £2,245
      Hornsey 84 £2,245
      Silvertown 122 £2,257
      North Finchley 36 £2,271
      Harlesden 97 £2,280
      Hanwell 131 £2,295
      Streatham 61 £2,314
      Dollis Hill 138 £2,321
      Streatham Hill 131 £2,328
      Forest Gate 23 £2,330
      Furzedown 40 £2,331
      Archway 96 £2,348
      Herne Hill 24 £2,351
      Dagenham 37 £2,354
      Stratford 34 £2,355
      Stockwell 181 £2,361
      Canning Town 151 £2,369
      Stratford New Town 20 £2,369
      Rotherhithe 121 £2,378
      Havering 28 £2,382
      Summerstown 39 £2,385
      Old Kent Road 132 £2,385
      Peckham 81 £2,388
      Brixton 24 £2,407
      Park Royal 155 £2,418
      Mile End 77 £2,422
      Belmont 21 £2,426
      Stamford Hill 50 £2,443
      Loughborough Junction 47 £2,455
      Hounslow 42 £2,456
      Elm Park 21 £2,461
      Earlsfield 107 £2,468
      Oval 95 £2,473
      Blackwall 244 £2,474
      North Cricklewood 70 £2,478
      Lower Holloway 85 £2,484
      Northumberland Heath 28 £2,495
      Camberwell 54 £2,497
      Church End 52 £2,502
      Homerton 80 £2,516
      Brent 60 £2,524
      Manor Park 71 £2,542
      Merton 59 £2,549
      Tower Hamlets 55 £2,558
      Bethnal Green 122 £2,578
      Whetstone 28 £2,579
      East Dulwich 71 £2,584
      Clapton 68 £2,585
      Stoke Newington 88 £2,592
      West Hackney 27 £2,632
      Upper Tooting 98 £2,636
      Stanmore 43 £2,643
      Shepherd's Bush 60 £2,659
      Woodside Park 27 £2,681
      Hammersmith 45 £2,682
      Balham 125 £2,691
      Nunhead 37 £2,691
      Acton 251 £2,698
      Strawberry Hill 62 £2,704
      Barnsbury 221 £2,704
      Brent Cross 24 £2,708
      Preston 63 £2,714
      Shadwell 108 £2,722
      West Finchley 37 £2,724
      South Wimbledon 57 £2,749
      Poplar 223 £2,771
      Tufnell Park 24 £2,778
      Clapham 46 £2,793
      Walworth 98 £2,801
      Shacklewell 71 £2,811
      Hackney 54 £2,857
      Haggerston 97 £2,857
      Crouch End 107 £2,858
      Bermondsey 153 £2,865
      Hoxton 116 £2,871
      Holloway 116 £2,908
      Kew 22 £2,949
      St Pancras 98 £2,959
      Middle Park 28 £2,961
      Limehouse 242 £2,968
      Canary Wharf 27 £2,972
      New Malden 42 £3,001
      Queen's Park 173 £3,012
      Elephant and Castle 282 £3,015
      Stratford Marsh 104 £3,016
      The Borough 43 £3,049
      Lambeth 63 £3,073
      Canonbury 65 £3,075
      Surbiton 61 £3,078
      Temple Fortune 63 £3,082
      Isle of Dogs 781 £3,083
      Brook Green 429 £3,085
      Putney 47 £3,097
      Cockfosters 36 £3,143
      Merton Park 57 £3,148
      Islington 54 £3,178
      Dalston 50 £3,178
      West Kensington 377 £3,179
      Brondesbury 113 £3,207
      Barnet 56 £3,216
      Clapham Junction 158 £3,243
      North Sheen 91 £3,263
      Whitechapel 524 £3,263
      Wandsworth 57 £3,313
      Kennington 39 £3,336
      Morden 20 £3,357
      Somers Town 43 £3,358
      Fulham 62 £3,359
      Gospel Oak 51 £3,370
      Greenwich 39 £3,374
      Roehampton 77 £3,383
      Mortlake 21 £3,397
      Hampton Wick 44 £3,404
      Kentish Town 123 £3,422
      Hampton 23 £3,440
      Grove Park 164 £3,467
      Pimlico 163 £3,512
      Clapham Park 139 £3,528
      King's Cross 137 £3,547
      Highbury 69 £3,570
      Southwark 195 £3,577
      Muswell Hill 69 £3,608
      Raynes Park 71 £3,613
      Southfields 136 £3,646
      Clerkenwell 190 £3,668
      Hackney Wick 21 £3,691
      Wimbledon Park 31 £3,705
      Shoreditch 160 £3,724
      West Hampstead 324 £3,787
      Wapping 184 £3,788
      St Margarets 84 £3,800
      Waterloo 95 £3,819
      Finsbury 162 £3,985
      Camden 130 £3,994
      South Hampstead 229 £4,026
      Fitzrovia 265 £4,063
      East Sheen 39 £4,069
      Vauxhall 189 £4,074
      Battersea 191 £4,075
      Wimbledon Village 97 £4,117
      Maida Hill 113 £4,157
      North Kensington 191 £4,205
      Earl's Court 861 £4,246
      Barnes 47 £4,264
      Maida Vale 194 £4,325
      Petersham 36 £4,426
      Golders Green 102 £4,497
      Walham Green 102 £4,501
      Parson's Green 117 £4,580
      Chalk Farm 236 £4,649
      Kensington and Chelsea 70 £4,816
      Bloomsbury 116 £4,907
      Holborn 126 £4,976
      Marylebone 587 £4,984
      Millbank 229 £5,153
      Paddington 587 £5,205
      Sands End 150 £5,233
      World's End 140 £5,361
      Richmond upon Thames 39 £5,609
      Notting Hill 555 £5,617
      Soho 39 £5,626
      Mill Hill 61 £5,816
      Bayswater 390 £6,053
      Belsize Park 482 £6,078
      Victoria 107 £6,487
      St. John's Wood 497 £6,587
      Westminster 227 £6,615
      Kensington 55 £6,729
      Covent Garden 46 £7,046
      Chelsea 726 £7,161
      Brompton 332 £7,371
      South Kensington 570 £10,116
      Mayfair 543 £10,437
      Belgravia 148 £11,673
      Hampstead Garden Suburb 48 £11,771
      Knightsbridge 158 £15,844
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