\n| \n SE25 (Norwood)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n \u00a3804<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Where rents have risen most<\/strong><\/p>\nWhile rents may have dropped slightly across London in the past year, parts of southeast London are bucking the trend. <\/p>\n In Crystal Palace (SE19) and Forest Hill (SE23), for example, rents rose by 11.1 per cent \u2013 well above both the London average of -0.2 per cent, but the average for SE postcodes, at one per cent growth. <\/p>\n In Crystal Palace, the average room now costs \u00a3901pcm, up by from \u00a3811 in the summer of 2025. It\u2019s a rise of \u00a390 per month, or \u00a31,080 per year.<\/p>\n In Forest Hill, rents have increased from \u00a3822pcm to \u00a3913pcm.<\/p>\n ![\"Renter:](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/14RMRentCrystalPalace1311-10.jpg\") <\/p>\n
Areas like Crystal Palace are \u201chighly desirable\u201d, says SpareRoom director Matt Hutchinson<\/p>\n Adrian Lourie<\/p>\n SE27 (West Norwood), SE24 (Herne Hill), SE18 (Plumstead), SE28 (Thamesmead), SE22 (Dulwich) and SE17 (Walworth) are all south-east London postcodes which have seen rent rises of over six per cent in the last year.<\/p>\n \u201cCrystal Palace and Forest Hill were once seen as \u2018good value alternatives\u2019 to places like Clapham or East Dulwich,\u201d says Matt Hutchinson, SpareRoom\u2019s director. <\/p>\n \u201cToday, they\u2019re highly desirable in their own right, with plenty of green space, the Windrush line and rail connections, bags of character, and rents below the inner London average. <\/p>\n \u201cIn the knowledge that sky-high housing and living costs might mean they\u2019re sharing for years to come, flatsharers today are increasingly concerned about quality of life as well as affordability, and they\u2019re moving wherever can offer them the best of both, pushing up rents in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n Postcodes which are getting cheaper<\/strong><\/p>\nSome areas, conversely, have experienced larger than average drops in rent. In N10 (Muswell Hill), a room now costs \u00a3884pcm, down from \u00a3998pcm at the same time last year \u2013 a fall of 11.4 per cent. <\/p>\n Unlike its neighbour SE27, SE25 (Norwood) has seen rents go down by 7.2 per cent, from \u00a3866pcm to \u00a3804pcm.<\/p>\n In E12 (Manor Park), NW5 (Kentish Town), N13 (Palmers Green) and N19 (Upper Holloway) rents have also reduced by more than five per cent. <\/p>\n But although rents have dropped in these postcodes, it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that they are affordable. <\/p>\n In Kentish Town, for example, a room now costs \u00a374 less than last year. But at \u00a31,038pcm, rents are still \u00a361 per month more than the northwest London average.<\/p>\n The same is true for N5 (Highbury), where the average room is \u00a354 cheaper than last year, but still costs \u00a31,006pcm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The average room in London now costs \u00a3915 per month to rent \u2013 less than the same time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1077650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,59598,257,295189,21392,180470,16,15],"class_list":["post-1077649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-inner-london","tag-london","tag-rental-prices","tag-rents","tag-spareroom","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116888019172236690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |
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