Compare Letting Agent Fees

Two honest routes

See how our costs compare

Pick the way you want to let. Each card opens a live comparison against the agent or platform it beats.

Want it handled?

We do it for you

For landlords who want the whole let handled: tenant find, compliance, rent and repairs, with nothing to chase.

Hello Neighbour vs high-street agents

up to 74%

lower fees than a typical high-street agent. See it against your agent. Highest versus Foxtons.

Want the best value?

Do it yourself & keep control

For hands-on landlords who advertise, pick their own tenant, and manage the day to day themselves.

Hello Neighbour vs OpenRent

Rightmove included

from £29, with Rightmove in the price. OpenRent charge £70 extra for it.

You are comparing We do it for you Hello Neighbour vs high-street agents

Better service, lower bill

Start with what is in each base price, then add anything extra. Both prices update as you go, from published price lists.

Hello NeighbourGet Listed

£29

£70 less with us so far

OpenRentPortal Advertising

£99

Start here

What is in each base price?

Same portals, one difference: Rightmove is their £70 upgrade and it is in our price. It starts switched on so you are comparing the same service.

Hello NeighbourOpenRent

Rightmove listing Included +£70

Rightmove Featured, 7 days Included Not offered

Zoopla & OnTheMarket listings Included Included

+£70 Rightmove is the biggest mover. Their upgrade buys a standard listing. Ours includes 7 days as a Featured Property on top, at the top of the results, which OpenRent does not offer. Rightmove says Featured gives twice the visibility.

Also in the box with us

Free to get going: no card, you only pay when you advertise
Licensing and compliance checked before you let
A real lettings expert to call, not just a help centre

Nothing is bought here. You add extras in the app as and when you need them.

Each row uses the published price on each side, or shows that it is included or not offered. Nothing estimated. An illustration, not financial advice.

How this works. One set of answers, two published price lists. Prices include VAT. Referencing is priced per tenant. Rightmove starts switched on for OpenRent so both sides offer the same service; turn it off if you do not need it.

Our base also includes 7 days as a Rightmove Featured Property (top of the results plus the standard listing, which Rightmove describes as twice the visibility); OpenRent does not offer Featured. Zoopla and OnTheMarket are included in both base prices, and custodial deposit registration in the landlord's own name is available on both sides.

Our inventory and check-in prices are fixed; theirs are from-prices that vary by property. Hosted viewings are offered by both sides: ours per 30-minute slot (one 30-minute or two 15-minute visits), theirs per 30 minutes through a partner, with a possible extra fee for key handling. Our viewing extensions (per extra 30 minutes, up to 2 hours) are not modelled here; the widget prices whole 30-minute viewings only.

Our extras prices are taken from our own live service pages. Getting started is free with us; you only pay when you advertise, and extras are added in the app as and when you need them. If you add something only we offer, it stays in our total and the comparison is flagged as not fully like-for-like. Every row below carries its source and the date it was last verified.

Line	Where	Hello Neighbour	OpenRent	Note	Source	Verified

The download is generated from exactly the figures shown here, including sources and verified dates, so it can never drift from the page.

What agents really charge now

Published 2026 tariffs, agent by agent. Pick the service you need, put in your rent, and compare the headline fee and the loaded first-year cost. Got a quote already? Compare against that instead.

Your monthly rent £2,000

Compared with

Include their published extras Include their published extras Set-up, tenancy agreement, referencing, deposit and compliance charges from their own fee sheets.

Your first-year saving

£1,510

versus A typical high street agent, finding your tenant.

A typical high street agent £2,950

Hello Neighbour, Get Rented Pro £1,440

Headline fee Their published extras

£2,400 headline plus £550 of their published set-up and compliance charges.

Source: Composite of the named rows, set manually and reviewed alongside them.

Included as standard

Compliance is the service, not a surcharge

Deposit registered and protected properly
Right-to-rent checks on every tenancy
Licensing checked before you let
Rent-review paperwork handled under the new rules

What agents now add

The new compliance surcharges

£48 a month "Risk & Regulation Service" (Hamptons)
£14.40 a month compliance fee (Leaders)
£11.40 a month "Property Regulation Check" (Connells branch sheet)
£120 to £300 for rent-review documentation (Martin & Co, Connells, Hamptons)

Left column wording per Hello Neighbour tier to be verified before publish. Right column figures from agents' published 2025-26 fee sheets; branch fees vary.

Fees only, from published tariffs. Repairs, certificates and licensing costs apply whichever route you choose. Since 1 May 2026 tenancies are periodic; many agents still publish continuation commission and rent-review charges, our fee does not repeat. An illustration, not financial advice.

Every figure below comes from the agent's own published fee sheet or terms. These rows come from one shared HubDB table, so a fee change is a single edit, and each row carries its source and the date we last verified it.

How the sums work

Percentages are applied to annual rent (monthly rent times 12) and include VAT. "One month's rent plus VAT" is calculated as 1.2 times monthly rent. Published minimum fees are applied where a calculation falls below them.

"Their published extras" adds only charges the agent itself publishes: set-up, tenancy agreement, referencing, right-to-rent, deposit registration and monthly compliance or regulation fees (taken over 12 months). Nothing is estimated.

"My own quote" compares against the figure you enter, as a one-off fee for tenant find or a percentage of annual rent for management; we add nothing to it.

Left out on both sides: repairs, safety certificates, licensing application costs and anything property-specific, because they apply whichever route you choose. Where fees are branch-specific we use a representative published branch sheet and say so. "A typical high street agent" is a composite of the named rows, set manually and reviewed with them.

Since 1 May 2026 tenancies are periodic. Some agents charge their letting fee for as long as the tenant stays, or publish continuation and rent-review charges; the table flags these. Our fees are charged as shown and do not repeat.

Agent	Tenant find	Management only	Full management	Published extras	Source	Verified

The download is generated from exactly the figures shown here, including sources and verified dates, so it can never drift from the page.