To ask how much rent you pay?

[quietmoon]

I was reading this Mumsnet thread about how much mumsnetters were paying each month on rent (2014) www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2049466-To-wonder-just-how-much-rent-you-people-are-paying?pg=1&order=

And I was quite shocked at how high rent rates were back in 2014. Now I am wondering how bad it is five years later?

I rent a 3 bed semi detached house in Warwickshire for £440 a month, in a good area with good schools. How about you?

Me and DH paid £650 for a 3 bedroom (tiny) detached in Liverpool before we got a mortgage last October

@quietmoon
I rent a 3 bed semi detached house in Warwickshire for £440 a month, in a good area with good schools. How about you?

@AngieBolen

This is like the MN chicken feeding a family of 4 for 3 days.

I also live in Warwickshire, in a nice area with good schools. A 3 bed semi would be at least £800pm, and this town isn't particularly expensive compared to neighbouring Warwickshire towns.

Sometimes I think I live in a parallel universe when I read MN.

Why do you find cheaper rents so hard to believe? Some 3 and 4 bed semi detached houses ARE £450 to £500 a month rent, if it's council housing/housing association. Sometimes in fairly decent, (or even very nice) areas too. Even down south (where private let is usually more expensive,) social housing is not much more than £550 to £600 a month for a semi/terraced house or big 2/3 bed flat.

I know a couple who pay £345 a month for a 2 bed bungalow in a village in North Staffs. It's a housing association who have 19 homes in their housing stock, in the village of 57 homes, and the area is stunning. They said they will never leave. Can't blame them really. But yeah, these rents do exists, but it's usually for social housing. The private rent amount is usually about 35 to 40% more.

2 bed in Nottingham £525. £150undsr the market rent for the area as LL likes me.

Lovely 2 bed in Scotland £750. Prices have since dropped here but it's really lovely so I stay

1350 for a three bed flat in Berkshire, near ascot.

Whatever you do don’t try and rent in Dublin so 🙈 (v v expensive)

Large three bed terrace privately rented £595.00 in Lancashire

2 bed.
West Yorkshire
£550. I love living here. Rural village

£840 a month for 4 bed semi in Weat Sussex not far from Gatwick. That's social housing rates.

2800euro for a 2/3 bed apartment in (fairly) central Amsterdam. It's a big spacious apartment and the area is quite nice but nothing posh!

1450 for 2 bedrooms near Richmond

Paying student child's rent of £490 a month (one room in a shared house).

£485 for a 2 bed flat in Norwich city centre. It’s HA & I’m very grateful as private rents for a similar property in the area start at £800ish.

In 2010 I rented a 2 up 2 down terrace for £600, 18 months ago the same house was on the market for £950!

We pay £1200 for a 3 bed semi.

Both in Kent.

£1,770 for a one bed in a massively regenerated part of East London . Makes me feel sick how much we pay but I’ve loved living in the area. We’re moving next week!

3 bed flat in medium sized town in Hertfordshire, one double bedroom, two very small singles. Very small flat, open kitchen and sitting room, very small windowless bathroom, no central heating just electric storage heaters, no outdoor space. £762 per month, and that's housing association not private rent.

600pcm for a big three-bed in North Yorkshire. Definitely feel lucky, though it was an absolute state when we moved in.

12 years ago I we paid £1000 pcm to rent a 2 bedroom flat in a lovely bit of south west London. Have just checked and an identical flat on the next road is now £1600 pcm...

£875 for 3 bed semi in Devon, including water & electric. It’s on the cheaper side for what we saw around here, but it’s a bit grotty.

We rent out our 4 bed semi in a pleasant enough but not posh bit of Manchester for £950.

Used to pay £1500 a month rent for 2 bed flat in London. Now have a £750 a month mortgage for a 3 bed house!

Even down south (where private let is usually more expensive,) social housing is not much more than £550 to £600 a month for a semi/terraced house or big 2/3 bed flat.

It varies a lot between council housing and so-called "affordable" housing. A lot of new social housing is built by housing associations and let at a rent equivalent to the local housing allowance (the maximum that housing benefit/UC will pay). Because the amount is based on local rents, it's surprisingly high. A 3-bed house will be £229 a week, which is about £1,000 a month.

Still cheaper than private rents though. A 3-bed house in my road was on Rightmove for £1,500 a month, and these houses are pretty small.

Sorry, should have said, that's in Sussex.

1 bed flats in my town rent for about £550. My daughter pays 650 for a tiny 1 bed house.

hazell42 I don't think anyone could care less about your finances. You don't need to tell us that you aren't answering your ladyship, run along now.

3 bed detached plus acre of garden in Herefordshire, 625pm.