Live data on rents, days-to-let, and availability for East Preston — compiled from comparable properties marketed via Phillip James plus publicly available listings in the area. Last updated October 2026.
2-bed
4-bed
Demand
Very strong
Well-presented homes are letting quickly across East Preston · 0.8 mi
Estimated gross yield
6.23%
Blended across local property types
About this data
These figures describe the East Preston rental market— typical (median) rents by bedroom, how long homes are taking to let, overall demand, and an estimated gross yield. Rents and days-to-let are drawn from current and recently-let comparable listings in the area; we use medians rather than averages, so a handful of unusual listings don’t distort the picture. Gross yield is a year’s rent against the typical recent sale price for the same property type, matched by bedroom count (the Land Registry doesn’t record bedrooms), with the headline figure blended across property types by their share of the local rental market. Sale prices are from HM Land Registry Price Paid. Figures are current as of October 2026 and refreshed regularly — all are indicative, and individual properties vary.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Get a valuationEast Preston has been steady into October, with most homes letting in around a fortnight. The sample here is small, so this is a read of the neighbourhood rather than anything wider. Two-bedroom homes are where most of the choice sits, typically around £1,300 a month and generally letting in two to three weeks. Three-bedroom homes, at about £1,900, have been moving a little faster, inside ten days. Four-bedroom homes, around £2,250, take closer to a month, and larger houses are thin on the ground generally. The one-bed and studio samples are too thin to lean on, though the one-bed has gone quickly.
The mix is fairly even between flats and houses, with a few bungalows. Autumn relets are keeping things ticking along, and as is typical, activity tends to ease off as Christmas approaches. For investors, gross yields run from around 4.5% on detached homes to around 7% on flats.
Updated by Phillip James on the 11th of October, 2026.
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Ask the teamBased on rental and let-agreed transactions and active listings in this area, calculated by Phillip James — Independent Letting Agents across the Sussex coast since 2008, combined with public listings data.
Based on rental and let-agreed transactions and active listings in this area, calculated by Phillip James — Independent Letting Agents across the Sussex coast since 2008, combined with public listings data.
Based on rental and let-agreed transactions and active listings in this area, calculated by Phillip James — Independent Letting Agents across the Sussex coast since 2008, combined with public listings data.
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