Erf — What should you ask for your rental?

What should you ask for your rental?

Every week we read every rental advert in your area and work out what units like yours are actually being advertised at. Tell us your unit, and we send you the figures.

At a glance. Typical asking rents here run from R8 900 (2 bed / 1 bath) to R54 750 (5+ bed), based on 888 advertised listings across 21 suburbs.

Last week’s Crowthorne round Advertised asking rents · 28 July 2026

1 bed · 1 bath

R9 100

strong units reach R12 500

typical asking · 240 adverts

2 bed · 1 bath

R8 900

strong units reach R10 600

typical asking · 142 adverts

2 bed · 2 bath

R13 500

strong units reach R18 500

typical asking · 232 adverts

3 bed · 2+ bath

R19 000

strong units reach R23 000

typical asking · 237 adverts

4 bed · 2+ bath

R39 500

strong units reach R48 450

typical asking · 20 adverts

5+ bed · 2+ bath

R54 750

strong units reach R55 000

typical asking · 6 adverts

We publish every figure we can stand behind. When a band has too few adverts that week to say anything reliable, we withhold it and print a dash with the reason instead of a guess. Every band cleared that bar this round.

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What lands in your inbox

A short PDF written for landlords, not for analysts. No jargon, no dashboard to learn.

Your number

The typical advertised rent for your bedroom and bathroom count, in your area — and the figure the best-priced quarter are asking, so you know where the ceiling sits.

Whether you can push it

How wide the gap is between typical and strong, and what a unit needs to have before asking the higher figure is realistic rather than optimistic.

The competition you’re pricing against

How long the adverts near you have already been running — currently a typical of 56 days. A market full of month-old adverts is a different pricing decision to one where everything moves in a fortnight.

How much to trust each figure

Every number carries the count behind it. Where the count is too thin, the figure is withheld rather than dressed up.

What it does not tell you

These are advertised asking rents — what landlords are hoping for, captured on one day. They are not signed leases, and they are not a promise about how fast your unit will let. Anyone selling you certainty from portal data is guessing.

What it costs

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Standard

Free

Typical and strong asking rent for your unit type
How long nearby adverts have been running
The sample size behind every figure
Emailed as a PDF, usually within a working day

Full guide

R99

Everything in the standard report
Suburb-by-suburb breakdown, not one area-wide figure
How your unit type compares to the one above and below it
The full method and every caveat, written out
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