{"id":301203,"date":"2025-07-29T12:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301203\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:39:13","slug":"the-only-london-borough-to-see-a-drop-in-average-rental-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301203\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only London Borough To See A Drop In Average Rental Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"A row of London houses on a hill\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/shutterstock_285984602-min-1024x683.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit: ZGPhotography, Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so the information I\u2019m about to give you isn\u2019t particularly groundbreaking. But just in case you hadn\u2019t already noticed: <strong>renting in London is really rather expensive<\/strong>. Wading through the murky waters of <a href=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/best-things-to-do-london\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/best-things-to-do-london\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_0\" data-category=\"click_internal\">London<\/a>\u2018s rental market is neither for the faint of heart or the low of funds. But I come bearing the faintest flicker of hope. And that teeny tiny glimmer comes in the form of the <strong>London Borough of Brent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>average rental prices<\/strong> across the capital city have continued to soar over the past year. On the whole, the average cost to rent a gaff in London rose by 7.3% between June 2024 and June 2025, leaping from<strong> \u00a32,100 to \u00a32,252<\/strong>. The bleakly unsurprising figures come courtesy of a recent report from the <strong>Office of National Statistics<\/strong>. But despite the average cost of rent rising in 31 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/london-32-boroughs\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/london-32-boroughs\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_1\" data-category=\"click_internal\">32 boroughs<\/a> in the capital; there was one lone London borough that actually saw a <strong>slight decrease in its rental prices<\/strong>. Who\u2019d have thought it?<\/p>\n<p> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-194049 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"white houses along a curving road in kensington on a bright winters day\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/shutterstock_530763082-1.jpg\"\/>Credit: Alexey Fedorenko, via Shutterstock <\/p>\n<p>The <strong>London Borough of Brent<\/strong> was the only London spot to have seen even the slightest sliver of downward movement in the average rental price department. The north-west London locale that encompasses the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/things-to-do-wembley\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/things-to-do-wembley\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_2\" data-category=\"click_internal\">Wembley<\/a>, Neasdon and <a href=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/things-to-do-in-queens-park\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/things-to-do-in-queens-park\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_3\" data-category=\"click_internal\">Queen\u2019s Park<\/a> saw a 3.1% decrease in the monthly average, dropping from <strong>\u00a32,063 to \u00a31,999<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Brent isn\u2019t the cheapest borough in the city to rent a property, though. That accolade still firmly belongs to <a href=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/cheapest-place-to-rent-in-london-bexley\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/cheapest-place-to-rent-in-london-bexley\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_4\" data-category=\"click_internal\">Bexley<\/a>, where the average monthly rent is just<strong> \u00a31,485<\/strong>. Coming as a surprise to absolutely nobody, the most expensive area to lay your hat in London is the oh-so charming borough of <strong>Kensington and Chelsea<\/strong>, where monthly rent will, on average, set you back a rather eye-watering <strong>\u00a33,616<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The figures are averaged out <strong>across all property types<\/strong>, from the smallest studios to the most sizeable townhouses. You can have a nosey at the full report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/visualisations\/housingpriceslocal\/E09000005\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/visualisations\/housingpriceslocal\/E09000005\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_5\" data-category=\"click_non_sales\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: ZGPhotography, Shutterstock Okay, so the information I\u2019m about to give you isn\u2019t particularly groundbreaking. But just in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,17009,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-301203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-local-trip","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114936569077641186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301203","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=301203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}