Cost of renting in UK soars – interactive map reveals precisely how a lot by close to you
The cost of renting in the UK has risen by 8.4% over the last 12 months. Find out how much prices have gone up in your area by using our interactive map.
People renting homes in England paid an average of £1,327 a month in the year to August, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.
In Scotland the average home costs £969 a month to rent, and in Wales £752 a month. No figures are available for Northern Ireland.
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It means rents have gone up by an average of 8.5% over the course of the year in both England and Wales, and by 7.6% in Scotland.
Rent hikes have been particularly high in London, having risen 9.6% over the course of the last year. Rents are also up by 9.2% In the North West, the East Midlands and the West Midlands. In the South east they’re up 7.7% year-on-year, in the East of England by 7.6%, in Yorkshire and the Humber by 7.0%, and in the North East by 6.7%.
The map is only for England and Wales as Scotland’s rent price data is not available by local authority.
The London borough of Brent has experienced the largest rent price increases in the whole of the UK.
Prices there are now 33.6% higher than they were 12 months ago. The average rental price in Brent is now £2,121 a month.
Melton in the East Midlands has seen rents increase by more than a fifth (21.1%) to £786 a month.
Hinckley and Bosworth, also in the East Midlands, has seen prices rise by 15.1% to £854 a month, while Runnymede in the South East has seen them rise by 15.1% to £1,590 a month.
In Greenwich, London, rents are up 15.0% to £1,818, in Harborough, East Midlands, they’re up by 14.9% to £907 a month, and in Oldham they’re up by 14.7% to £797 a month.
Kensington and Chelsea is the most expensive place to rent in the country, with the average home there going for £3,418 a month.
In Westminster the average rent is £3,099 a month, in Hammersmith and Fulham it’s £2,585 a month, in Islington it’s £2,557 a month, and in Camden it’s £2,482 a month.
