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Do the numbers work? Rents and yields, the HMO planning rules, growth and what owners made, and the council's letting picture.
| Typical private rent in Bexley | A month | A year |
|---|---|---|
| All homes | £1,537 | £18,444 |
| 1 bedroom | £1,229 | £14,748 |
| 2 bedrooms | £1,526 | £18,312 |
| 3 bedrooms | £1,865 | £22,380 |
| 4+ bedrooms | £2,424 | £29,088 |
The council's typical rent against the typical home here (£465k): a gross yield of about 4.0%.
| Lesnes Abbey | Bexley | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housing allowance yield (%) | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.2 |
| Rented privately | 13% | 15% | 20% |
| Homes ever let | 12% | 15% | 18% |
| Residents per home | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.3 |
| Homes owned by companies | 3% | 4% | 4% |
| Homes bought by companies since 2021 | 51 | 45 | 34 |
ONS private rents (council, 2026-08); Local Housing Allowance (VOA). Gross yields are before costs, voids and tax.
HMO planning rules: unknown here. Bexley has not published HMO Article 4 areas to the national planning data platform, so we cannot tell whether HMOs need planning permission here. Ask the council's planning team.
| Lesnes Abbey | Bexley | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Postcodes under an Article 4 direction | 0% | 0% | 16% |
planning.data.gov.uk (Article 4 directions). Whether one address is inside an HMO area is on its postcode's Investing page. HMO Article 4 map · About HMOs
| Lesnes Abbey | Bexley | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population change, 2021–2024 | +2% | +4% | +4% |
| Homes added, 2021–2024 | 0% | +2% | +3% |
| Housing pressure vs region | 1.8 | 1.6 | -0.3 |
Like-for-like (repeat-sales) index, HM Land Registry. What owners made when they sold, by area and how long they held.
MHCLG council tax base (England), Ministry of Justice repossessions, ONS short-term lets.
Yields, prices, growth, renting and Article 4 cover, side by side.
| Belvedere & Lessness Heath | 4.7 | £347k | +48% | 29% | 0% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erith East | 4.5 | £310k | +46% | 24% | 0% |
| Lesney Farm & Colyers East | 4.5 | £371k | +44% | 11% | 0% |
| Slade Green & Crayford Marshes | 4.5 | £349k | +49% | 16% | 0% |
| Crossway Park | 4.4 | £349k | +55% | 27% | 0% |
| Erith West | 4.1 | £370k | +54% | 17% | 0% |
| South Thamesmead | 4.1 | £380k | +42% | 19% | 0% |
| Crayford | 4.0 | £416k | +49% | 16% | 0% |
| Northumberland Heath | 3.9 | £418k | +43% | 15% | 0% |
| Foots Cray Meadows | 3.8 | £404k | +39% | 11% | 0% |
| Sidcup West | 3.7 | £396k | +49% | 24% | 0% |
| Barnehurst North | 3.7 | £418k | +56% | 10% | 0% |
| Bexleyheath Broadway | 3.6 | £378k | +36% | 21% | 0% |
| Blackfen | 3.6 | £421k | +55% | 13% | 0% |
| Falconwood | 3.5 | £475k | +45% | 11% | 0% |
| Barnehurst South | 3.5 | £438k | +46% | 12% | 0% |
| Lesnes Abbey (this one) | 3.5 | £465k | +53% | 13% | 0% |
| St Michael's | 3.3 | £463k | +46% | 13% | 0% |
| Sidcup East | 3.3 | £435k | +34% | 17% | 0% |
| Welling | 3.2 | £474k | +48% | 16% | 0% |
| Wickham Street & East Wickham | 3.2 | £452k | +50% | 13% | 0% |
| Lamorbey | 3.2 | £501k | +50% | 11% | 0% |
| Bostall | 3.1 | £526k | +52% | 8% | 0% |
| Danson Park | 3.1 | £537k | +43% | 11% | 0% |
| Albany Park | 3.0 | £503k | +44% | 9% | 0% |
| Bursted Wood | 3.0 | £577k | +47% | 9% | 0% |
| Bexley Village | 2.9 | £524k | +42% | 14% | 0% |
| Longlands & Halfway | 2.8 | £578k | +48% | 8% | 0% |
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Local Housing Allowance, Outer South East London rental area, 2026-27, a month: Shared room £600 · 1 bed £1,050 · 2 beds £1,300 · 3 beds £1,550 · 4 beds £1,800. The most a tenant on Universal Credit or Housing Benefit gets towards rent here, set at the cheapest 30% of local rents in 2023 and frozen since April 2024.
Gross LHA yields at this neighbourhood's 2025 prices: 1-bed rate vs flats 4.92% · 2-bed vs terraced houses 3.47% · 3-bed vs semis 4.04%.