Average rent in Southwark & Bermondsey (SE1)
SE1 median asking rents: £2,408 a month for a one-bedroom home (middle 50% £2,188–£2,804; 292 listings) and £3,100 for a two-bedroom home (£2,751–£3,700; 414 listings), from homes advertised between 5 and 27 October 2026; that is 27% and 29% above the London-wide medians (£1,900 and £2,400).
Rent in SE1 by number of bedrooms
Homes advertised to rent in SE1 at any time between 5 and 27 October 2026, let-agreed ones included (883 homes with a bedroom count; repeats merged where we can match them). “Listings” counts those homes, not the ones on the market today. The middle 50% is shown from 50 listings.
| Bedrooms | Median a month | Listings | Middle 50% | vs London |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | Not shown: one building would set the figure | |||
| 1 bed | £2,408 | 292 | £2,188–£2,804 | +27%London £1,900 |
| 2 beds | £3,100 | 414 | £2,751–£3,700 | +29%London £2,400 |
| 3 beds | £4,750 | 91 | £3,550–£7,233 | +64%London £2,900 |
| 4+ beds | Not shown: one building would set the figure | |||
The sizes in the table add up to 797 of the 883 homes: 63 are in sizes not shown, and 23 rents lie beyond three times the interquartile range of their size and are left out. “One building would set the figure”: a fifth or more of those listings sit within 50 metres of one spot, or leaving that spot out moves the median by 5% or more, usually one block let in bulk.
Against the ONS figures for Southwark
Two different measures. Ours are asking rents of homes advertised in SE1 between 5 and 27 October 2026. The ONS figure is the average rent of Southwark’s whole private rental stock, new and existing tenancies, modelled on a fixed basket of properties from rent officers’ data. Rents for new lets usually run above what tenants already in place pay, and a postcode district can differ from the borough.
| Bedrooms | SE1 asking rent (median) | Southwark, ONS (September 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | £2,408 | £1,907 |
| 2 beds | £3,100 | £2,387 |
| 3 beds | £4,750 | £2,779 |
| 4+ beds | — | £3,670 |
Quoted: ONS Price Index of Private Rents (method; official statistics in development), for the borough that holds most of SE1’s postcodes (85%). ONS gives no studio figure. Source: Office for National Statistics, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Four-week change
We will add the four-week change on 3 December 2026. Our daily full sweeps of London rental listings began on 5 October 2026, and a fair comparison needs two full 30-day windows four weeks apart.
Nearby districts
| District | 1 bed | 2 beds |
|---|---|---|
| SE1 Southwark & Bermondseythis page | £2,408 | £3,100 |
| SE17 Walworth | — | — |
| SE11 Kennington | — | — |
| E1W Wapping | — | — |
| SE16 Rotherhithe | £1,965 | £2,450 |
| EC1Y | — | — |
| SE5 Camberwell | £1,750 | £2,200 |
| SW1P Westminster | £3,077 | — |
| E1 Whitechapel | £2,200 | £2,933 |
The 8 nearest districts that have a district page, by distance between their centres; same rules and dates. “—”: fewer than 20 listings in that district, over a quarter priced by the week, or one building would set the figure.
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Questions
What is the average rent in Southwark & Bermondsey (SE1)?
For homes advertised to rent in SE1 between 5 and 27 October 2026, the median asking rent was £2,408 a month for a one-bedroom home, £3,100 a month for a two-bedroom home and £4,750 a month for a three-bedroom home. These are asking rents on Rightmove listings, with repeats merged where we can match them, not rents agreed with tenants.
How much is a one-bedroom flat to rent in Southwark & Bermondsey (SE1)?
Of the 292 one-bedroom homes in our figure for SE1 (advertised between 5 and 27 October 2026, extreme values left out), the middle half asked between £2,188 and £2,804 a month; the median was £2,408.
How much is a two-bedroom flat to rent in Southwark & Bermondsey (SE1)?
Of the 414 two-bedroom homes in our figure for SE1 (advertised between 5 and 27 October 2026, extreme values left out), the middle half asked between £2,751 and £3,700 a month; the median was £3,100.
Is Southwark & Bermondsey (SE1) expensive to rent?
Compared with the London-wide median asking rent for the same size (all London listings, same dates): a one-bedroom home 27% above (£2,408 against £1,900); a two-bedroom home 29% above (£3,100 against £2,400); a three-bedroom home 64% above (£4,750 against £2,900).
How do these figures compare with the ONS rents for Southwark?
ONS publishes the average rent of the borough’s whole private rental stock, new and existing tenancies, modelled on a fixed basket of properties from rent officers’ data (Southwark, September 2026: £1,907 for one bedroom, £2,387 for two bedrooms). Ours are asking rents of homes advertised in SE1 alone between 5 and 27 October 2026. Rents for new lets usually run above what tenants already in place pay, and a postcode district can differ from the borough.
How many homes are advertised to rent in Southwark & Bermondsey (SE1)?
883 homes in SE1 with a bedroom count were advertised to rent on Rightmove between 5 and 27 October 2026, merging a home re-advertised under a new listing or by a second agent where we can match it. Room and house shares, co-living, short lets and the other listings set out under Method are not counted.
Are rents in Southwark & Bermondsey (SE1) going up?
We will show the four-week change from 3 December 2026: our daily full sweeps of London rental listings began on 5 October 2026, and a fair comparison needs two full 30-day windows four weeks apart.
Method
Our calculation from Rightmove rental listings. Once a day since 5 October 2026 we read Rightmove’s rental listings across 262 London postcode districts. A figure here is the median asking rent per calendar month (weekly rents × 52 ÷ 12) of the homes in SE1 advertised to rent at any time between 5 and 27 October 2026, let-agreed ones included; the window is the last 30 days once our sweeps go back that far. Left out: room and house shares, co-living, short lets, non-residential and some other property types (retirement and serviced flats, houseboats, unspecified types), listings marked as open to students (on Rightmove most of these are ordinary flats), and listings whose own opening words give another number of bedrooms than their bedroom count. Repeats are merged where we can match them: the same flat advertised by several agents (same building, on the market at the same time, rent within 1%, no floor or size telling them apart), and a home taken down and put up again under a new listing by the same agent (same address and layout, some build-to-rent blocks do this every day), count as one home at its latest asking rent; some copies we cannot match may remain. Within each size, rents beyond three times the interquartile range are left out. The middle 50% (shown from 50 listings) runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile. A size is shown only with at least 20 listings in SE1 itself, when no more than 25% quote a weekly rent, and when no single spot (the listings within 50 metres of one listing, any agent) holds 20% or more of them or moves the median by 5% or more when left out: that is usually one building let in bulk, whose rents would set the figure. London-wide medians use every London listing under the same rules and dates. Four-week changes need at least 25 listings at both ends. The same figures feed our commute tables (where to live for 12 work hubs). Figures are rebuilt every day. They are asking rents, not the rents tenants agreed.
Sources and how to cite
Asking rents: our calculation from Rightmove rental listings; we publish only these district totals, never single listings. Borough averages: ONS Price Index of Private Rents (Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0).
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