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?

I think it's trying to tell me to stop being so lazy and get the laptop out LRD.

Scotland - central belt. £300 a month with gas and electric thrown in for my beautiful 1800's 2 bed cottage. Has gated driveway parking and a medium sized courtyard garden that I plan to spruce up over the next couple of months. It's in a lovely quiet area tucked right behind the town center (2 minute walk away) and is accessible to all the schools. Train links into Glasgow and Edinburgh a five minute walk away. It was renovated for me moving in, so all the work done to it (except the bathroom which will get done in the future) was done with my approval

I'm ridiculously lucky. It's family owned so I get charged a pittance. The actual rental value is between £450-500 pcm.

1250 PCM for a small 3 bed terrace in the SE in one of the naicest small towns in the country. We moved from SW London, our old flat was up for rent a few months ago for 1500pcm, we paid 1000 five years ago, so that goes to show how much property prices have gone up.

We've just exchanged contracts on a 4 bed house, in a slightly more average area and our mortgage will be less than our current rent.

£975 for a 2 bed house. Depressing reading down people pay less than half for that for bigger houses in some areas Rent prices are ridiculous where I live (Surrey) We need a 3 bed but they're about £1300pcm!

£490 for a 3 bed terrace in South Yorkshire, teeny garden. It's more than I can afford but I think I'm quite lucky. I rent off a friend so I feel secure that the rent won't suddenly be hiked or I'll be kicked out and the water is included in the rent so is less really.

I'm in military housing in Oxfordshire, so the rent on our large 3 bed semi is just over £200, but my friend down the road (3 miles away) was paying £750 for a 2 bed new build terrace with a garden about the size of picnic blanket. Bloody ridiculous.

£624 a 3 bed council flat in NW London

£700 pm for 3 bed detached in Merseyside. could get maybe one bedroom flat for the same money in my hometown in the SE.

£750 for a two-bed flat, communal garden, main road, niceish area of outer London. I am incredibly fortunate that the rent has only gone up by £25 in the last five years. However, it's damp and the boiler doesn't work, so we only intermittently get hot water.

It would be nice to move somewhere with a garden, and a kitchen you can turn around in without injuring yourself, but Id be looking at paying £1200+

So instead I'm just keeping everything crossed that the LL doesn't decide he wants market rent for this place.

About to rent out our 2 bed terrace in an ok but 'unfashionable' (read non-affluent and a bit dodgy but not dangerous) part of London. Not in catchment for any nice schools. Estate agent thinks we'll get £1300 - £1400 (market rate, not us being grasping, and it's in good condition for the area).

£1100 two bed. Cheap for the area as it's in need of modernisation

My former boss, whose DH was in the City used to bitch and complain about their rent..... just shy of £6,000 per month!!!!!

They were in Fulham Frankly, I thought she was complaining as a kind of showing off....because her DH's work paid the rent to a private landlord.

She said that they used to call the landlord to do everything, even change lightbulbs when they were perfectly capable of doing it, because 'they were paying for it'.

When I rented I was paying about £550 pm for a house share. Also London

£1400 rent £240 council tax for a small 2 bed flat, no garden, in Kent.

Used to pay £1300 for a 1 bed shoe box in Canary Wharf.

Ours is £500 pm for a lovely 3 bed semi with a big back garden in a small cul de sac, privately rented and 3 houses away from an outstanding school (rated by ofsted). It's in Wigan which some (most) people would pull a face at but I think it's nice where we are.

Look at these two in SL4 area, really don't get much for your money

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-29808453.html

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-45583169.html

These should be average family homes not mega bucks

Look in w8 for 3/4 bed house. Haha

£680 pcm private rent.

3 bed semi, front and back garden, driveway and garage.

Allowed to have a dog.

Leeds. One of the more expensive parts. Nothing to do with schools etc. It's where I've always lived. There are many houses which go over the £1k mark in the same town.

£965 for a 2 bed flat in SE London, just outside Zone 1. We're lucky in that the rent has only gone up by about £50 in the last 7 years, and the landlord is very good. I think we're paying a fair bit less than what it would cost now. Looking at buying, and it's stressing me right out - I like my rented place too much!

1,500 for a 4 bedroom in berkshire

Wait, that's per week :(

My first rented place cost £240 pcm for a 2-bed flat with shared yard in NE England. That was in 1994. Similar in the same area now would be £550-600.

I don't know who could rent in W8 you could win the lottery and struggle!

£650 for a 2 bed flat in a 4 in a block flat in a nice area in Scotland.

£800 for a grotty 4 bedroom semi in Somerset. Complete with avocado bathroom suite, swirly carpets & textured wallpaper. And 3 monthly inspections. Working on an escape plan but so much of my income goes on rent I can't save anything, it's a trap.