To wonder just how much rent you people are paying?

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I often see posters commenting on how much rent they are paying to live in nice areas/near good schools etc. and I can't help but wonder how much you are all paying!

I am lucky that I live in a Housing Association house, and that I live in the North where rents seem to be cheaper.

My rent is £420 a month for a 2 bedroom house - how much is yours?

1400 p/m for a 2 bed 2 bathroom apartment with a balcony in Kingston-on-Thames.

This thread is interesting.

We were renting 2 years ago and paid £2300 pcm for a 3 bed semi in SW London. The house was in a bad condition, and with single glazing. Modernized houses on the same road was around £4000 pcm. Mad.

passmethewineplease sorry, only just come back to this thread. I'm by the big bridge

€1500 (= £1250) for a 2 bed house with small garden in Dublin, v. nice area but still!

We own our house (with the bank ) but if we rented it, it would be around £1700 pcm. It's a 3/4 bed 3 storey new build. Our mortgage is about £1000 less than what the rent would be!! (we did have equity of around £100,000 when we sold our last house though).

I really can't see how people on our wages could afford such rent, we pay more in childcare than we do on our mortgage! We last rented about 14 years ago and that was £450 for a 3 bed end of terrace with a courtyard garden!

I rent out my old one bed flat in Hackney, East London for £1350 per month. Even I think that's criminal!

GodcreatedCricket Can you not reduce it?

The estate agent wanted us to put the rent up. I refused.

Ooh, forgot to say I live in east anglia!

£900/month on tiny shoebox-like 1 bed flat in South East London.

However, by all accounts, this is a bit of a bargain as studio flats within our block are renting for over a grand per month,

Oh and pretty much all the landlords seem to live in China/Hong Kong. It seems that the majority of the flats were brought off plan by foreign investors, who are now making a killing with huge rent increases on their shoeboxes.

Nice, eh?

580 per month for 3 bed semi in a south Devon market town. I'm fortunate that the ll is a good friend. I guess I have mates rates really as other properties in the town rent for a good 100 more.

I own a house in the nearby city with xh, it's currently on the market, but we are considering renting it out if it doesn't sell soon. It's a 2 bed semi with garage and would rent for at least 800. Much much smaller property than the one I'm renting, and only 14 miles from my rented house.

The rental market is crazy to say the least

I thinks what's more interesting is not how much people are paying by itself, but how much people are paying and how much the house is worth.

I've been a tenant in the past and now I rent our a number properties as a LL. If I wanted to move to a more expensive house, it'd actually be a lot cheaper to do so by renting long term rather than buying. I find property fascinating.

I'm reassured, if that's not an odd word, by how many MNers are renting long-term. IRL I sometimes feel like the lone mature renter who hasn't managed to get on the property ladder (or, more accurately, has fallen off it) in a sea of mortgage-payers.

(By "mature" I mean in 30s/40s, working and/or bringing up children as opposed to student or just-moved-out-from-parents stage.)

I live with my mum at the moment but the rent at the moment is 575 .. 3 beds 2 toilet flat in Chelsea.

£450 for a 3 bed HA with large garden in a lovely village in N.yorkshire . To rent equivalent from private ll , would be approx £1100.

£380 mortgage on large upstairs flat in old house. 3 bedrooms(one tiny), huge kitchen, private garden. Central Scotland,semi-rural location.