Data as of July 2026 · computed by Flatscout from live cross-portal listings and official open data
Edinburgh is Scotland's most expensive rental market and one of the tightest in the UK: festival-season demand, four universities and strict short-let licensing all compete for a limited stock of tenement flats, so well-priced lets in Marchmont, Leith or Stockbridge move within days.
Edinburgh currently has 1,857 live rental listings across the portals Flatscout tracks — Rightmove, Zoopla and SpareRoom — with a median asking rent of £1,550 a month for a whole property. Rooms in shared homes start lower, and the by-postcode table below shows how much the same budget buys in different corners of the city.
Everything on this page is computed from listings Flatscout scrapes and de-duplicates around the clock, joined with official open data: the ONS Price Index of Private Rents for the long-run trend, ONS earnings data for affordability, police.uk street-level crime, VOA council-tax bands, Ofcom broadband coverage, and EPC certificates matched to the homes actually being advertised right now. Figures refresh continuously — the numbers below were last computed in July 2026.
If you're actively hunting, the data has one practical message: well-priced Edinburgh rentals go in hours, not days. Flatscout watches every portal and can alert you by email, WhatsApp or Telegram within minutes of a matching listing appearing — before most renters have refreshed the app.
| Bedrooms | Median rent | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | £1,448/mo | 86 |
| 1 bed | £1,185/mo | 359 |
| 2 bed | £1,495/mo | 485 |
| 3 bed | £2,200/mo | 249 |
| 4+ bed | £3,126/mo | 152 |
| Room in shared home | £750/mo | 526 |
| Outcode | Median rent | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| EH2 | £2,348/mo | 26 |
| EH9 | £2,100/mo | 95 |
| EH3 | £1,900/mo | 183 |
| EH1 | £1,800/mo | 47 |
| EH10 | £1,800/mo | 79 |
| EH8 | £1,659/mo | 124 |
| EH4 | £1,595/mo | 107 |
| EH6 | £1,550/mo | 184 |
| EH12 | £1,539/mo | 84 |
| EH16 | £1,535/mo | 47 |
| EH14 | £1,400/mo | 23 |
| EH17 | £1,390/mo | 15 |
| EH5 | £1,325/mo | 27 |
| EH11 | £1,300/mo | 144 |
| EH15 | £1,300/mo | 17 |
| EH7 | £1,300/mo | 119 |
| EH13 | £1,200/mo | 10 |
The ONS Price Index of Private Rents puts the average rent across ALL Edinburgh tenancies at £1,420/mo in June 2026 — up 1.4% on a year earlier. In January 2020 it was £1,028/mo. The ONS average sits below asking-rent medians because it includes existing tenancies, not just newly advertised homes.
Renting at the ONS average of £1,420/mo takes roughly 46% of the local median gross salary of £37,380 a year (ONS ASHE 2025). The conventional affordability threshold is 30%.
Of 1,857 live listings, 52% advertise a garden and 19% advertise parking. Portals under-report features, so treat these as a floor.
Residential premises coverage in Edinburgh: 83% full fibre (FTTP), 93% gigabit-capable, 99% superfast (30 Mbit/s+) (Ofcom Connected Nations).
No single portal has every home — Flatscout merges and de-duplicates them all, so each property is counted once.
The median asking rent in Edinburgh is £1,550 per month for a whole property, based on 1,857 live listings tracked by Flatscout across Rightmove, Zoopla and SpareRoom (July 2026).
Flatscout is currently tracking 1,857 active rental listings in Edinburgh, with 456 new listings added in the last 7 days. Listings from every portal are merged and de-duplicated, so each home is counted once.
The median asking rent for a one-bedroom property in Edinburgh is £1,185 per month, while a room in a shared home has a median of £750 (July 2026).
Renting at the ONS average of £1,420/mo takes roughly 46% of the local median gross salary of £37,380 (ONS ASHE 2025). The conventional affordability threshold is 30%.