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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
UK average private rent reached £1,406 in September 2026, according to ONS (Price Index of Private Rents) — up £6 on August and 3.8% higher than September 2025. Across English regions, the North West led annual growth at 5.7% while London and the South East sat at 3.5%, a spread of 2.2 percentage points by UKPP's calculation from ONS data. If your rent hasn't moved in the past year, these figures are the supporting context for a Section 13 notice — but details from actual market rental agreements carry more weight at tribunal than any index.
On costs: the Bank Rate stands at 3.75% as of 29 October 2026, and the Bank of England monthly average for September 2026 shows a five-year fix at 4.98% and a two-year fix at 5.13% — meaning the five-year is the cheaper of the two by 0.15 percentage points (15 basis points, a UKPP calculation). If you are coming off a fix this year, those are the rates you are rolling onto. Meanwhile, the PRS Database opens for registration in the West Midlands on 15 December 2026 — the first of nine regions, with a deadline of 14 March 2027 for West Midlands landlords under the draft regulations.
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