What is the standard rent in your town?

Marylebone, Central London 1BR top floor flat £300 a week but that is extremely cheap for the area. More around £330-350 a week

I'm looking for two bedroom flats in Finchley (north London) for about £850 pcm...this is the lower end of the scale, and the average is nearer £900.


Vicky

per week?  I think 3,400 pounds a month is INSANE for 3 bedrooms...I can't imagine having to fork that out each month for a 1 bedroom   

Oh sorrry I thought it was £850 per month. Yes that's an insane amount!. I would never pay that much in rent, better to buy if you can afford that much.

Oh sorrry I thought it was £850 per month. Yes that's an insane amount!. I would never pay that much in rent, better to buy if you can afford that much.

Without a doubt, you could have a very nice house for that amount. Maybe they are on an ex-pat package (here temporarily) and most it is paid for by the employer.

Without a doubt, you could have a very nice house for that amount. Maybe they are on an ex-pat package (here temporarily) and most it is paid for by the employer.

I hope so! 

Just out of London, right past the M25 in Essex, we have what they call a duplex.  It's a 3rd floor (american 3rd floor) flat that has an upstairs/and downstairs.  We pay £712.50 a month. That includes water.  Downstairs has 2 bedrooms and 1 bath.  Upstairs is all open plan with the kitchen/dining/living area.  The building is only about 4 years old and we happened to be lucky enough to be the first renters of the place so it was brand new. Landlord let us pick and choose what furnishing we wanted/needed.  So that price includes washer/dryer combo, stove, fridge/freezer, couch, dining table/chairs, and beds.  We have economy 10 electricity.   I like living on the top as I don't have people above me to stomp around and make noise and we can look down on the neighbourhood.  The cats love laying right at the foot of the sliding glass doors watching the world pass by!  The only stupid thing about it, is that the living area has a sloped ceiling that goes all the way down to the floor which is a total waste of space.  We can't even use that side of the wall because nothing will fit.   Other than that we are happy. We didn't have any estate agent fees as the ladies who showed us around were only the "management" of the property. This is the first place that I have lived in longer than 2 1/2 years!!  We would definately buy it if the landlord wanted to sell.  We have seen some of the flats in the complex sell for anywhere between £154,000 - £170,000

(except for maybe the crappy washer/dryer combo unit)

you wont know if it's crappy or not until you use it!
Mine is brilliant!   

Marylebone, Central London 1BR top floor flat £300 a week but that is extremely cheap for the area. More around £330-350 a week

Amy you have a great apartment.  I would love to live in that location.

We are in Kent (15-20 min train ride from central London) and our rent is 1500 per month.  We have a detached 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath house with a huge yard (downside: house hasn't been updated for years).  It's a 5 minute walk to the train station.  We looked at many houses in the area that were all in the 1000-1500 price range.

The ones I've been looking at in Weston-Super-Mare are running around 450 for a two bedroom, which is what I'm after. I won't know exactly what I'll be getting for that money until I'm over in March, though. The photos on the web look like they're better than half the places I lived when I was in New York City.

Where I live, in zone 2 of North London, rents for a one bedroom run between 200-260 pounds a week. Places that are close to the tube, and updated will be at the top of that figure.

The photos on the web look like they're better than half the places I lived when I was in New York City.

Yes, I found this too. I know a lot of expats coming to the UK find that they may be giving up space and some of the mod cons they have in the US, but coming from New York, that hasn't been true for me. My place in Brooklyn was tiny and not updated at all (though I loved that place). And very few of the rental apartments that I've seen in NYC have washers or dryers.