Flats to Rent in Brent

Renting in Brent

Outside Wembley Park ward, every kind of privately rented home in Brent needs a council licence. Selective licensing covers 21 of the borough's 22 wards, every ward except Wembley Park, and an additional licensing scheme for shared homes covers the whole borough. Ask for the licence number before you sign anywhere outside Wembley Park.

On the ONS measure in the table above, Brent's average rent is below the London average for every size of home, and its overall average is below Camden's, Westminster's and Ealing's and above Barnet's and Harrow's. Council tax is above average: Band D is £2,235.27 in 2026/27, about £167 a year more than the London average of £2,068 (MHCLG). Renting is common here. At the 2021 Census, 36.0% of Brent's households rented privately, up from 30.1% in 2011, while 38.4% owned their home; the population grew 9.2% in the decade, to about 339,800 (ONS). Brent had the highest share of residents born outside the UK of any local authority in England and Wales, 56.1%, just ahead of Westminster (ONS Census 2021).

Licensing in detail

Brent's first selective licensing designation covers Harlesden & Kensal Green, Dollis Hill and Willesden Green wards from 1 August 2023 to 31 July 2028. The second covers the other 18 wards except Wembley Park, from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2029. Both apply to homes let to a single household or to two people who are not related. The additional licensing scheme, in force since 2 February 2026 for five years, covers homes shared by three or four people from two or more households, and larger shared homes need a mandatory licence (Brent Council). Wembley Park's new rented blocks are outside selective licensing, so the licence check there applies only to shared homes.

Which line serves which area

Stations in Brent by area, with the lines that serve them

Area	Stations	Lines
Kilburn and Queen's Park	Kilburn, Kilburn Park, Queen's Park, Brondesbury, Brondesbury Park	Jubilee, Bakerloo, Lioness line and Mildmay line (London Overground)
Kensal Rise and Kensal Green	Kensal Rise, Kensal Green	Mildmay line; Bakerloo and Lioness line
Willesden, Dollis Hill and Neasden	Willesden Green, Dollis Hill, Neasden	Jubilee
Harlesden and Stonebridge	Harlesden, Stonebridge Park, Willesden Junction	Bakerloo, Lioness line; Mildmay line at Willesden Junction
Wembley	Wembley Park, Wembley Central, North Wembley, Wembley Stadium	Jubilee and Metropolitan; Bakerloo and Lioness line; Southern at Wembley Central; Chiltern Railways to Marylebone
Alperton and Sudbury	Alperton, Sudbury Town, Sudbury & Harrow Road	Piccadilly; Chiltern Railways at Sudbury & Harrow Road
Kingsbury, Kenton and Preston	Kingsbury, Queensbury, Kenton, South Kenton, Preston Road, Northwick Park	Jubilee; Bakerloo and Lioness line; Metropolitan

The neighbourhoods

Kilburn, Queen's Park and Kensal Rise

Kilburn High Road is the boundary with Camden, so each side of the street is in a different borough. Queen's Park, the park, opened in 1887 and is owned by the City of London Corporation; Queen's Park station, in Zone 2, has the Bakerloo line and the Lioness line (London Overground), and a farmers' market runs on Salusbury Road every Sunday. Kensal Rise's shops are on Chamberlayne Road. Kensal Green Cemetery, opened in 1833, is across the Harrow Road in Kensington and Chelsea and Hammersmith and Fulham, not in Brent.

Willesden, Dollis Hill and Neasden

Willesden Green and Dollis Hill stations are on the Jubilee line, which runs to Baker Street, Bond Street, Westminster, London Bridge and Canary Wharf. Gladstone Park, at Dollis Hill, opened in 1901. Neasden is home to the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, completed in 1995 as Britain's first traditional Hindu stone temple. Dollis Hill and Willesden Green are in the first selective licensing designation.

Harlesden and Stonebridge

Harlesden and Stonebridge Park stations have the Bakerloo line and the Lioness line, and Willesden Junction, south of Harlesden, adds the Mildmay line to Richmond, Highbury & Islington and Stratford. HS2's Old Oak Common station is being built just south of the borough boundary; the Transport Secretary's reset in May 2026 put the first HS2 trains between Old Oak Common and Birmingham between 2036 and 2039. Do not choose a home here on the strength of HS2 within a normal tenancy.

Wembley Park

Wembley Park station has the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines. Around it, Quintain has built thousands of flats since the 2010s, many of them let as build-to-rent by its own rental business, Quintain Living, alongside Wembley Stadium, the OVO Arena Wembley (called the SSE Arena until 2022), Boxpark and the London Designer Outlet. On stadium and arena event days the streets and trains are crowded. Wembley Park ward, which takes in the stadium and the Quintain estate but not Wembley Park station itself (in Preston ward), is the one ward outside selective licensing.

Wembley Central, Alperton and Sudbury

Wembley Central has the Bakerloo line, the Lioness line and Southern trains; Chiltern trains to Marylebone stop at Wembley Stadium station, not here. Wembley High Road has the shops. Alperton, on the Piccadilly line, has new blocks of flats along the Grand Union Canal, and Sudbury Town, one stop west, is also on the Piccadilly line.

Kingsbury, Kenton and the north-west

The north-west of the borough is suburban, along the Jubilee line at Kingsbury and Queensbury and the Metropolitan line at Preston Road and Northwick Park. Fryent Country Park, between Kingsbury and Wembley Park, is a Local Nature Reserve of hay meadows and hedgerows, with Barn Hill in its south-western corner. The Welsh Harp (Brent Reservoir), shared with Barnet, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest for its birds.

Getting around

Brent has 21 tube stations on four lines, Jubilee, Metropolitan, Bakerloo and Piccadilly, plus the Lioness and Mildmay lines (London Overground), Chiltern trains from Wembley Stadium and Southern trains from Wembley Central. The Jubilee line runs from the middle of the borough to the West End, Westminster and Canary Wharf, and the Bakerloo line serves the south and west. There is no Elizabeth line station in Brent. Check a specific commute on the TfL Journey Planner at the time you would travel before you sign.

Schools

Brent's state secondaries include Alperton Community School, Ark Elvin Academy, Harris Lowe Academy Willesden (formerly Capital City Academy), Claremont High School, Kingsbury High School, Michaela Community School, Preston Manor School, Queens Park Community School and Wembley High Technology College, with JFS, Newman Catholic College and St Claudine's among the faith schools. Ofsted no longer gives a single overall grade, so read each school's latest report and its admissions criteria; academies, free schools and faith schools each set their own rules.

Parks and open space

Fryent Country Park and Barn Hill are open meadow and woodland in the north of the borough, and Gladstone Park, Roundwood Park and Queen's Park are further south. The Welsh Harp's shore and the Grand Union Canal towpath at Alperton give longer walks.

Safety

Reported crime varies a great deal between Brent's streets, and between Wembley's event days and the rest of the week. Check the street you are considering on police.uk, which maps reported crime month by month, and compare it with the streets around it.

Who it suits

Brent suits renters who want a Jubilee or Bakerloo line station and a rent below the London average, and those who want a new-build flat in Wembley Park run by a build-to-rent landlord. It suits less well anyone who wants quiet streets near the stadium on event days.

Useful links

Brent Council: brent.gov.uk (council tax, property licensing, school admissions)
Crime by street: police.uk
Journeys: tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey

The listings above are homes and rooms advertised by their landlords in Brent now. Outside Wembley Park ward, and for any home shared by three or more people inside it, ask each landlord for the property's licence number; a licensed landlord will have one.