Record-breaking rent rises in 2023
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How far did rents grow over the course of the past year?
Higher mortgage rates have kept millennials renting for longer, meaning they're still footing the majority ...
The transition to higher interest rates has hit landlords. Investors are collectively paying £15.0bn in mor...
Our August lettings index reveals annual rental growth soared to 12.0%, the fastest pace we've seen since t...
House prices in Prime Central London have, for the most part, been treading water ever since 2016. But will...
With rents up 9.9% on the same time last year, our deep dive focusses on what's fuelling the fires under th...
In the face of rising rents more young adults are choosing to stay home, saving them £1.3bn in rent each year.
The landscape of British homeownership has been steadily shifting, with the high homeownership rates of old...
As price growth slows, landlords won’t be surprised to see the capital gain on their investment drop back. ...
The rising cost of energy-intensive construction products has pushed up service charges by an average of 8....
For the first time on record the holiday let market has outshone traditional long-term lets...
Average rents outside London passed £1,000 for the first time.
With the average landlord turning 60, it’s predominantly older investors who are leaving the market. Our e...
We analyse the numbers to see how both landlords and tenants have reacted to the legislation.
90,370 tenants left the capital last year, with the numbers doubling since 2012
Renting is now cheaper than buying across most of the country. View our interactive map to see whether buyi...
Our analysis shows that the growth in the number of privately rented households between 2011 and 2021 was l...
Why are landlords taking up a bigger share of the market despite fewer sales?
As of last month, rents in every region have surpassed their pre-Covid averages. With the average rent for ...
For years, buyers have enjoyed mortgage repayments that are historically low, but it’s likely over the medi...
Strong rental growth has meant that tenants are having to trade-down and lose a bedroom in order to spend t...
Tenants are set to pay £63.0bn by the end of 2022, a record high and the first big jump in five years.
In our latest analysis, we explore how market movements are changing the sums on whether it’s cheaper to re...
London rents are rising at a record pace, with growth being driven by renters returning from outside the ca...
Sellers are increasingly turning to the rental market as a stop-gap to secure their sale.
As strong rental growth and rising energy bills add to living costs, financial pressures are raining down o...
The government’s proposal to ensure that all new rental properties have an EPC rating of at least a C by 20...
Towards the end of last year, the easing of restrictions brought about a return to the office, luring peop...
Over the last four years the number of landlords who have put their buy-to-let properties into a company, r...
To find out how rents across the regions have fared since the start of the pandemic, have a read of Novembe...
The desire for space has been the property trend of the pandemic. While smaller city properties have falle...
The capital was hit hard by the pandemic – rents fell by up to 20% as tenants moved out and students stayed...
With 27% fewer homes available to buy in July than the same time last year, sellers who have struggled to f...
It appears that late spring marked the bottom of the Inner London market. For the first time since April 20...
The staycation boom is going from strength to strength, with our research showing that there was a signific...
It's been just over a year since building sites started to re-open but the evidence since then points to fe...
Despite rents in Great Britain rising 7.1% over the last 12 months, strong house price growth coupled with ...
The frantic desire to move bought on by the pandemic has been felt in the rental market too as the time it ...
January 2021 lettings index - Nationally the rate of rental growth picked up for the sixth month running. ...
Rental growth outside London hit the highest figure on record since the index began in 2012.
December 2020 Lettings Index - December marked the first time since the onset of the pandemic that prospect...
Following six month's of stagnation, rents in Great Britain rose for the first time since the Coronavirus p...
Between the housing market re-opening for busines in May and the end of September, the total number of home...
We all want more space. It's been widely reported that owner-occupiers have, since lockdown restrictions we...
Short lets drive up London rental market stock as rents continue to fall.
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