Monthly rents rise £221 over three years – how much they’ve gone up in your area
New data, the cost of renting in the UK has seen a sharp increase in the last few years, and new data increased only £ 221 a month in just three years.
This is the analysis of Zoopla, which makes Finds analyzed by Zoopla Finds, which is far behind, more expensive than three years ago.
In spring, the average monthly rent was £ 1,283, numbers from the property website show. London continues to be the most expensive city of England for tenants with an average of £ 2.101 per month in 2025.
This follows Oxford (£ 1,747), Brighton (£ 1,640) and Cambridge (£ 1,600). In the meantime, the northern regions Burnley (625 £), Hull (652 £) and Grimbsy (656 £) have the cheapest rents.
However, rental growth has changed in different parts of England during this period, some amazing areas see that prices increase much faster than others.
In the last three years, the tenants in Rochdale have seen the highest relative increase and the average costs have increased by 34.3 percent. This brought the average rent to £ 897 in 2025 in 2022.
This was followed by Bolton (31.5 percent), Wigan (31.1 percent) and Blackburn (29.1 percent), pointing to the tendency of rents rising faster in the North West.
However, for new tenants in the UK, the average annual growth in the average rents is actually slowing down. The report shows that growth fell from 6.4 percent to April last year to 2.8 percent.
However, since 2022, the growth in rent prices means that special tenants have seen a greater increase in monthly housing costs than 2022 than mortgage costs.
The figures also indicate that mortgage repayments for an average unpaid loan are currently £ 129 more than £ 1,154 per month – more than £ 129.
Zoopla General Manager Richard Donnell said: “The transition to higher mortgage ratios, the alarm on how mortgages could provide higher repayments in the last three years. The sales market was flexible thanks to the mortgage arrangements that enabled borrowers to meet higher mortgage rates.
“Tenants have faced steep increases in the cost of rental in recent years, rents, higher income tenants with higher and lower income tenants are the most hired house supply.
“The fastest way to mitigate high rents is to enlarge the stock of rental households in both social and specially rented sectors. The growth of housing supply is a key government target and it is vital that the stock of rented houses expands during all their term of office.”
