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The London Short Let Index

One number for the health of the capital's short let market: the share of central London's next 30 nights already booked, read monthly from our own live tracking of short lets within ten kilometres of the centre. Free to read, free to cite.

August 2026 reading

61%

of central London's next 30 nights are already booked

Taken 12 August 2026 · Next reading early September

50%of the next 90 nights booked
£176median professional nightly rate, next 30 nights
82%peak night: Wednesday 12 August, the night of the reading

First published reading. London books late: the fullest night of the window was the reading date itself, at 82%, while demand further out averages about half booked.

The series

Every reading, on the record

The Index is read the same way every month, so each figure is comparable with the last. This table grows one row at a time and nothing in it is revised after publication.

ReadingNext 30 nights bookedNext 90 nights bookedProfessional median rateTaken
August 202661%50%£17612 August 2026

How the Index is read

Upgraded Intelligence, the property data studio within The Upgrade Authority, continuously tracks live short let listings across London and records their night by night availability and pricing. Each monthly reading takes the most recent observation for every tracked listing within ten kilometres of central London, then measures the share of the coming 30 nights that are already reserved.

  • One method, every month. The same sample area, the same calculation, read by the same engine as our Bristol Short Let Index and North Wales Holiday Let Index, so readings are comparable across the series.
  • Whole market occupancy, professional rates. Booked percentages cover every tracked short let. Nightly rates are the median among professionally priced portfolios, stated as such.
  • Honest samples. 17 homes, after collapsing duplicate listings, feed every night of the current reading, ten of them priced. Any night with fewer than ten sampled homes is excluded rather than guessed, and sample sizes are published with every reading.

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