How much do you pay to rent a 3 bed house?

[FeelingAtTheEndOfMyTether]

Just to make me feel better (or worse)! We are having to move (landlord selling) and will be going from paying £1300 to £1800 a month!

Bog standard, single bathroom, single reception room semi with on street parking as opposed to current property with garage, drive, en-suite and two reception rooms.

Absolutely nothing else cheaper. Any property advertised slightly cheaper is offered for more.

We are in a deprived, south eastern town with a large proportion of council housing which is now 50% privately owned.

Majority of salaries seem to be around £22-£25k.

Max housing benefit for a 3 bed is £1000 a month!

We’re not eligible for housing benefit/UC as we both work.

No holidays, new clothes, treats, or heating on and cheap beige food for us from now on so we can pay off landlord’s mortgage.

What a life.

I'm in quite a rural place in Wales so about £800 for a 3 bed here. Although it really is very rural.

Those are shocking prices though for you. The rental market is awful.

Oh God. How do people live when rent prices are that steep? Its sickening

I live near Bolton..... my rent is 595 for a small 3 bed ( 3rd bedroom is tiny ) but its run down and really dated ( private rent )

My friend the next street over pays £900 for a much more updated version of the same property ( private rent )

One of my parents live in a really rural town and they pay £500 a month for a 4 bed with a huge huge huge garden. Although, it was our family home which we then sold to the council so maybe that's part of the reason the rent is so cheap 😅

My sister lives in a really posh area and her rent is also £900 for a 3 bed

I feel really sorry for people nowadays, how are people affording to feed their families when rents are so high?

Op, £1800 is very steep. Some London rents in decent places are cheaper than that

My DS was paying £900 a month for a one bed flat in a run down town on the SE coast. He soon got fed up and has now bought a 2 bed house and the mortgage is only £100 more a month than he was paying for rent.

I am in the exact same situation, having to live because landlady is selling (waiting for section 21) and my rent is £1200 but everything else is £1800 ++ . I have no idea how I’m going to find anywhere that will allow me as a single parent household.

£2.5K-£3K for a 3 bed semi here. Shocking. South london.

Go on Zoopla and put different places in. The rental market is in a terrible state. We are on Merseyside and our local news reported on a woman living in her car with a baby and toddler after her LL sold up, another woman and her teenage son slept in their car because he would have had to go into foster care because the council only had all female hostels available. When I've seen stuff like that in the US, I've always been grateful not to live in a society were children are sleeping in cars etc . Until the rise in buy to let and the bedroom tax, we didn't have housing issues in Liverpool. We need more responsibility in the buy to let lenders.

I get this is really expensive but the phrase paying off LL mortgage really bugs me as most LL pay interest only mortgage so no mortgage is actually getting paid off for LL and instead LL going for equity increase over time. Fyi I'm a LL and let out 8 3 bedroom houses in Midlands and Hull. I charge £850 in Midlands and £650 in Hull. I know I could charge a bit more but I like my tenants and they have been with me many years and I got a good 3 year fix just before the rates skyrocketed. Once those rates go I will have to increase to £900 and £700. I have 2 2 bedroom houses in the West Midlands and I rent those for £775 and £725. I am happy with the profit I make. I have a huge waiting list of relatives and friends of current tenants so I save money by not having to advertise. I don't use an agent I do everything myself so have built a good professional relationship with my tenants. I'm even a Godmother to one tenant's child.

I own my house but the zoople estimate for if I rented it is around £1300! This is for a slightly larger than average 3 bed semi (3 double bedrooms) in the nice area of my large East anglian town. I couldn't afford to rent my own house!!

I'm in the North East and the house we have just moved out of was advertised for £825 to the next tenant. 3 bed 3 bath townhouse in lovely area. 3 bed 1 bath in next town over only about £525

£1800 is disgusting, I can't understand how anyone can afford that!

can't you rent a flat instead?

We pay £1800 in the southwest. We're leaving to buy our own place and the landlord is charging the new tenants £2,250!

TBF our mortgage will be 2.2k per month, so about the same.

In west mids, my previous small 3 bed terrace was £850. Recently got a 3 bed council house which is £550. The terrace is back up for rent for £950

For a 3 bed house? I v much doubt that. We paid £1950 PCM for a 2 bed flat in a nice part of London, and that was 7 years ago now.

That’s almost as much as my mortgage for a five bedroom detached house in a very nice area in NW. I think it’s appalling the way the rental market works at the moment. It will only get worse too as the boomers die off leaving mountains of cash for the next generation. Other European countries have so much tenant protection- we need an overhaul urgently. I hope you can manage without screwing up your quality of life. ❤️

That sounds very expensive and unreasonable. We have a very large 3 bed flat with garage, beautiful views, parking and a large private garden and it's £650 per month in the south west. It is slightly cheaper than the average where we are but not by much.

We're in Bath and I just checked online, it seems crazy for anything above 3 beds, over 2K a month approx, more for anything larger

West Yorkshire arounds 650-800 approx.

Birmingham. Anything from around £900-£2000ish for a 3 bed. The very desirable areas are at least £1800 and areas and homes you'd want to live in all starr at about £1300. Anything less than £1000 look like very uncared for houses that no one would 'choose'to move to.

£2700 in London Essex border. We can only pay rent & bills now nothing extra or replacing broken stuff.

Midlands here - a small 3 bed came on the market to rent today at £1100 a month.

I’m absolutely staggered at the prices tbh as that’s not in the nicest (nor the worst) part of town.

I really feel for you OP, it’s dire out there at the moment

I've just looked out of interest cheapest on rightmove is 1950 for a 3 bed flat, 2100 for a 3 bed terrace, 2300 for a 3 bed semi.

Zone 5 South East

UC is not just for unemployed people - the vast majority claim it alongside work. Have you actually checked?

I'm an 'accidental landlord' (yes yes, I know we're despised) and charge my tenants just enough to cover my mortgage (750 quid). Rents around here (Bristol) for a 3 bed are usually closer to double or triple that, if not more. It's fucking terrible how much landlords can rip off their tenants.