It’s probably a question you’ve never asked yourself but one online flat sharing agency has calculated the most expensive and the cheapest places per month to rent a double bedroom.
Data from Easyroommate says to rent a double bedroom in the UK you would have to spend £492 per calendar month, an increase of 13 per cent of £57 compared to a year ago, when the rent was £435 pcm.
Unsurprisingly the most expensive city in the UK is London with rent for a double bedroom hitting an average £700 pcm - up 8.0 per cent on the end of 2014.
Birmingham saw its average rent increase go from £358 pcm in 2014 to £381 pcm in 2015, a gain of more than 6.0 per cent. Manchester’s rent for a double bedroom surged by 7.0 per cent, reaching an average of £393 pcm in 2015.
Here are the top 10 most expensive locations - all figures are pcm:
- London: £700
- Oxford: £578
- Surrey: £562
- Cambridge: £543
- Reading: £511
- Aberdeen: £494
- Edinburgh: £450
- Bournemouth: £442
- York: £403
- Southampton: £398
What are the top 10 least expensive cities to rent a flat in 2015?
- Belfast: £283
- Bradford: £322
- Sunderland: £326
- Swansea: £327
- Bolton: £329
- Stoke-on-Trent: £332
- Preston: £340
- Leicester: £342
- Cardiff: £345
- Leeds: £355
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