Average rents and gross yields for every English local authority, and plain‑English guides to the Renters’ Rights Act, Making Tax Digital, EPC C and the PRS Database. Sourced to ONS, HM Land Registry and GOV.UK — free, no paywall.
Listings-based tools calculate yields from asking prices — the number a seller wants, not the number the market paid. We use the official record: registered transactions and the national rent index. It’s less flattering and considerably more useful.
See the methodologyYour region sets what your property is worth, what a lender will lend against it, and the price side of every yield on this site. Here is how the regions actually differ — registered transactions, not asking prices.
London: last on growth, first on price.
Every headline figure, dated and attributed, with copy‑paste citations and a full CSV — see the source data.
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The UK average private rent reached £1,400 a month in August 2026, up 3.8% on a year ago according to ONS (Price Index of Private Rents). The regional picture is sharper: the North East and North West led English regions jointly at 5.8% annual growth, while the South East trailed at 3.0% — a spread of 2.8 percentage points, by UKPP's calculation from ONS data. If your property sits in one of the faster-moving areas and your rent has not been reviewed this year, the Section 13 process is the mechanism to bring it into line with the market.
On the cost side, the Bank Rate stands at 3.75% as of 8 October 2026, and the Bank of England monthly average for September shows two-year fixes at 5.13% and five-year fixes at 4.98%. If your current fix is approaching its end, those are the rates you are rolling towards. On the compliance front, PRS Database registration is proposed to open in the West Midlands on 15 December 2026 under draft regulations — the first of nine regions on a monthly rollout to a final deadline of 14 November 2027. Check where your region falls and what you will need to upload.
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