
Phillip James lets and manages properties across North Laine, Seven Dials, Preston Park, Kemptown, Hanover, and the wider BN1 and BN2 area.
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More on Rent GuaranteeTypical for 2-bed homes · gross yield across Brighton ~6.0% · updated 4 September 2026
“We have been using Phillip James Lettings since 2008 to help us with 2 flats we rent out. Prior to that we used a couple of the bigger names out there but I'm so glad we made the change — and stuck to it!”
“As a private landlord of a house in the Preston Park area of Brighton, it was refreshing to deal with such a professional and knowledgeable letting agent.”
“The service they give is friendly, super helpful and personal — and that goes for our tenants as well. Having had some very rude and brusque treatment from various lettings companies when I was a renter, this was important to me as I didn't want people renting from us to feel as I had back then.”
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Get a valuationThe Brighton rental market is predominantly flat-led, with studios, one-beds and two-beds making up the bulk of available stock. One-bedroom flats are the busiest part of the market right now — typically letting inside ten days at a median of around £1,325 a month. Studios are moving at a similar pace, usually finding a tenant in about a fortnight, with rents centred around £1,000. Two-beds — the most plentiful size on the market — are taking slightly longer, around two to three weeks, with a median of £1,750. That's a normal summer pattern: the main relocating push has largely worked through, and the market is settling into its late-August pace.
Larger properties are slower. Three- and four-bedroom homes are each taking about a month to let, at medians of £2,200 and £2,250 respectively. That's not unusual for this time of year — bigger homes always take a little longer, and the gap between those two price points is notably narrow.
For investors, gross yields on Brighton flats are running at around 7%, which is a reasonable benchmark for flat-style stock in the town.
Updated by Phillip James on the 30th of August, 2026.
Studio
1-bed
2-bed
3-bed
4-bed
5+ bed
Demand
Strong
Tenant demand is consistently high across BN1 – BN2
Estimated gross yield
6.02%
Blended across local property types
About this data
These figures describe the Brighton 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 September 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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