How to find a nanny in London? What's the rate for London nannies?

fwiw at that age a nanny is prob better than daycare, most nurseries here dont take babies under 6-9 months anyway. if you're set on a nanny try the london nanny facebook groups, there's a few big ones with thousands of members. rates are closer to 16-20 these days for a newborn with someone experienced, live out. just make sure they have ofsted registration or at least a clean dbs, lots of people skip that

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honestly just check childcare.co.uk or nannyjob.co.uk, that's where most london families post. rates for a nanny are around 15-18 an hour live out, maybe a bit more for a tiny baby like yours. word of mouth is still best tho if you can

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SpareRoom's "rooms wanted" ads are underrated for this. people post what they're currently paying alongside what they want next, so you can scrape a rough sense of going rates by postcode without anyone knowing you looked. it skews young and flatshare heavy tho, so not much use if you're after 2-beds in zone 2.

Another one is just the depozit or tenancy deposit scheme data. not public-facing, but your council's housing officer can tell you median rents from deposit registrations if you email them under FOI. takes weeks, but its proper anon and nobody clocks u.

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Rightmove and Zoopla only show asking rents, which are often 10 to 15 percent above what a place actually goes for, so they're a poor benchmark. The trick I've used is the ONS Price Index of Private Rents, which breaks things down to borough level and is genuinely anonymous since it's aggregate data, no listing or account needed. For something more granular, the London Renters Union runs a rent reporting tool where you submit what you're paying with your postcode and it maps it against others nearby, though the coverage is patchy outside the inner boroughs.

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the openrent "rent check" thing is decent for zones 3-4 where the unions tool barely reaches. also worth checking the london.gov.uk planning portal for new build applications, they list "affordable" and market rent figures per unit in the viability assessments, which is basically the developer telling the council what they expect to charge. bit of a faff to dig through but its public, anonymous & nobody knows ur looking

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