
Phillip James lets and manages properties across Brunswick, Central Hove, the Hove seafront, Aldrington, and every street in BN3.
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More on Rent GuaranteeTypical for 2-bed homes · gross yield across Hove ~5.4% · updated 3 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 Hove rental market is overwhelmingly flat-led — houses are thin on the ground, and when they do appear they tend to sit at the higher end of the price range. Studios are currently sitting around £925 a month and letting inside ten days; one-beds at a median of £1,350 are moving around a week, which is notably quick. Two-beds — the most plentiful part of the market — are typically around £1,800 a month and letting in roughly a fortnight. Three-beds come in at around £2,450 and are also away within two to three weeks, suggesting reasonable appetite at that level despite the thinner choice.
Larger properties are a different story. Four-beds at around £2,600 are taking a little longer — around a fortnight to three weeks — and the sample of five-plus bedroom homes is too small to say anything meaningful. August is typically a busy month for summer moves, and the pace across most size brackets reflects that.
For investors considering buy-to-let, gross yields on flats are running around 6.5%, while houses — terraced, semi or detached — sit noticeably lower given purchase prices in Hove.
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 BN3
Estimated gross yield
5.45%
Blended across local property types
About this data
These figures describe the Hove 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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