Olympic Park Area Guide

Renting in the Olympic Park: an analyst’s guide to E20 and East Village

E20 is one of London’s newest postcodes, created for the 2012 Games and now a parkside neighbourhood of its own. Where our Stratford guide covers the town centre and the great interchange, this one is about living on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park itself: the build-to-rent apartments of East Village, the family neighbourhoods like Chobham Manor, and the new East Bank culture and university quarter rising by the water. This guide leads with the data, then the lived detail. It is for the people we let to most often here, professionals and couples who want a managed parkside flat, families drawn to the purpose-built neighbourhoods, and students arriving for UCL East and the East Bank institutions. We are London Rental Analysts and new-build specialists, and the Park is exactly the kind of stock our model is built for.

The market read: what it costs to rent in E20

Start with the numbers, because under the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 the marketing price a landlord sets on day one is, in practical terms, the rent for the life of the tenancy. There is no bidding above the asking rent and no rent-in-advance premium, so the advertised figure is the figure. The homes we manage in E20 sit around £3,600 per calendar month, the live figure on our Where our properties are page, reflecting larger and higher-specification parkside and family homes. As across the Park, the building, the floor and the parkside outlook drive the rent more than the postcode alone.

The other half of the read is timing. Our valuation method draws on three years of Rightmove and Zoopla listing-and-enquiry data: August carries the highest enquiries-to-listings ratio of any month, and the student and graduate calendar around the East Bank makes the late-summer peak sharp. A Monday-morning launch beats the rest of the week, and the Four Week Rule, that advertising too far ahead of the available date destroys prime position, applies as everywhere. See our New-Build Specialists page and The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 for the method.

Who the Olympic Park suits

The Park suits people who want green space and brand-new homes with a fast central commute. Professionals and couples take the build-to-rent apartments of East Village for their managed, amenity-rich living; families choose the purpose-built neighbourhoods such as Chobham Manor, designed largely around houses and maisonettes; and students and academics arrive for UCL East and the East Bank, whom we place through the route on our Student Lettings page. For applicants arriving from overseas we run the entire process remotely, with Mandarin-language support via our China Desk.

Getting around

The Park is served by the Stratford interchanges, among the best connected in London.

Stratford and Stratford International. The Elizabeth, Jubilee, Central, DLR and Overground lines, national rail, and high-speed services to St Pancras in about seven minutes, all within walking distance of the Park.
Into town. Central London is around ten minutes, Canary Wharf about thirteen on the Jubilee line, and Liverpool Street about seven on the Elizabeth line.
On foot and by bike. The 560-acre park is laced with traffic-free walking and cycling routes along the waterways, linking the neighbourhoods, the venues and the East Bank.

The developments we let in

E20 is a set of purpose-built neighbourhoods on the Park, which makes building and operator knowledge central to letting well.

East Village, the former Athletes’ Village, now a large build-to-rent and mixed-tenure neighbourhood operated by Get Living, with its own high street, parks and amenities.
Chobham Manor, the first of the Park’s new neighbourhoods, around 859 homes with a strong emphasis on family houses and maisonettes.
The newer parkside neighbourhoods rising around the East Bank and the waterways as the Park’s masterplan continues.

Many of these run on communal heat networks and build-to-rent operators with their own letting rules; the operational detail that protects a landlord’s return is set out on our New-Build Specialists page.

Living here: the park, the venues and East Bank

Living on the Olympic Park means the 560-acre Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is your back garden, with the London Aquatics Centre, the velodrome, the London Stadium and the ArcelorMittal Orbit slide. The East Bank cultural quarter is bringing the V&A East, Sadler’s Wells East and the BBC’s music studios to the waterways, alongside UCL East. East Village has its own weekly market, high street and restaurants, and Westfield Stratford City is a few minutes’ walk. It is one of the few places in London where world-class sport, culture and parkland sit on the doorstep of brand-new homes.

Schools, universities and family life

The Park was planned for families and students alike. Chobham Manor and the other neighbourhoods include family housing and new schools, while UCL East, the University of the Arts London and the wider East Bank put a major university presence on site, driving strong student and postgraduate demand. The park itself is unmatched for family green space in this part of London.

Renting on the Olympic Park with Harvey W James

A neighbourhood built around build-to-rent operators and communal-services buildings rewards an agent who knows how each one lets and prices on evidence. We value on live data, we understand the operators and the communal-heat stock, and we can run the entire process remotely for applicants arriving from overseas. Everything we do is structured around the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, which we have operated since it came into force on 1 May 2026, and our office is a short walk away at Stratford.

Where to look next

To see what we currently have available, search our properties to rent. Landlords in E20 should start with the Landlords page and our New-Build Specialists service; overseas owners, see Overseas Landlords and the China Desk. Tenants and applicants, the Tenants page explains the lifecycle, Guarantor Services and Student Lettings cover the no-UK-guarantor route, and The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 is the framework underneath it all. Next door, see our Stratford guide, and our full London area guides.

Useful contacts

Lettings and viewings: lettings@harveywjames.com, 020 3865 1500
General enquiries: info@harveywjames.com
Overseas and China Desk: see the China Desk page
Property Redress Scheme (agent redress): membership PRS010914 — verify here.
Propertymark Client Money Protection: membership M0243538 — verify here.

This area guide is for orientation only. Rent figures are the live range of our own managed homes in this postcode and representative market context in mid-2026, not quotations; the actual rent for any property depends on the building, the unit and its specific terms. Transport times are approximate and sourced from Transport for London. Development details are drawn from public records and may change. Nothing here is legal or financial advice. Last reviewed June 2026 against Essential Terms and Charges v2.1.5 (7 May 2026).