Average Rent in the UK
Average rent in the UK (Q1 2026) is £747 pcm. If you exclude inner London it's £668 pcm.
Average rents are updated every quarter - last updated April 2026
Average rents by region
| Region | Average monthly room rent | Annual change |
| East Anglia | £674 | -0.6% |
| East Midlands | £568 | 0.6% |
| North East | £549 | -0.1% |
| North West | £610 | 0.5% |
| Northern Ireland | £568 | 0.6% |
| Scotland | £673 | -0.4% |
| South East | £744 | -0.1% |
| South West | £677 | 1.5% |
| Wales | £588 | 0.8% |
| West Midlands | £585 | -0.1% |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | £560 | 0.3% |
| London | £978 | -0.5% |
| UK | £747 | 0.1% |
| UK (excl London) | £668 | 0.5% |
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Methodology
SpareRoom’s Quarterly Rental Index data compares data from Q1 2025 with Q1 2026, based on more than 400,000 UK room ads (inclusive of bills) across both periods. Postcodes/towns/cities with a sample size of less than 25 were excluded. ‘Inner London’ data covers E, EC, N, NW, SE, SW, W & WC postcodes. In Q2 2025 a new limitation was added to the dataset, with rooms priced at under £150 per month filtered out.
Every quarter we analyse hundreds of thousands of room rents for the SpareRoom rental index, giving you average rents and rent increases and declines across London and the UK.
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