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HomeLet: over-70 renters spend 46.8% of income on rent
HomeLet’s latest affordability report finds renters aged 70 and over spend 46.8 percent of gross income on rent, based on millions of references to August 2026.
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Propertymark: London rent salary threshold reaches £74,010
Propertymark’s revised August 2026 tracker puts London’s rental salary threshold at £74,010, despite a 0.7 percent monthly fall in average rent.
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Lomond says tenants spend 32.7% of income on rent
Lomond says tenants now spend 32.7 percent of income on rent, with the average UK monthly rent at £1,369 and average time to let stretched to 63 days in its Summer 2026 market report.
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SpareRoom: 85% of renters back rent controls
SpareRoom says 85 percent of renters back rent controls after another year of rent rises, with 32 percent saying they were forced to move in the past year because housing had become unaffordable.
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Housing benefit now covers just 1.9% of rentals
Only 1.9 percent of private rental listings across Britain are now affordable to households relying on housing benefit, according to new analysis led by Crisis…
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Propertymark says London rent salary threshold fell 17% in June
Propertymark says the salary needed for an average London rent fell 17 percent year on year to £71,550 in June, even as average rents in the capital still rose to £2,385 a month.
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ABI warns 1.3m more pensioner households may rent by 2044
ABI-backed research says 1.3 million more pensioner households could be renting by 2044, leaving nearly one in three retired households in the private or social rented sector.
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Skipton says renters face 35-year wait for a home deposit
Skipton Building Society says one in three renters are saving £100 a month or less towards a home deposit, leaving them on a 35-year path to buy against an average first-time buyer deposit of £41,403.
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Propertymark: Scotland rents jump 7.7% in May as affordability pressure spreads
Scottish rents rose 7.7 percent in May, the sharpest monthly increase of any UK region in Propertymark’s latest rental price and salary tracker, while the…
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Children now more likely than adults to live in private rentals
Children are now more likely than working-age adults to live in the private rented sector, with 3.2 million children in privately rented homes and 23…
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April rents split by region as Scotland and London jump
Average rents moved in different directions across the UK in April, with Scotland, Northern Ireland and London all posting firm monthly rises while Wales and…
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UK rents plateau as regional divides widen in March
Average agreed rents across the UK were broadly flat in March, but the latest Propertymark tracker showed the market is still moving in very different…
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Rental affordability eases as wage growth outpaces rent rises
Renters are now spending 40.9 percent of their income on rent, down from 41.5 percent a year ago, as stronger wage growth helps ease affordability…
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Newport leads UK rent surge with 47 percent rise in five years
Newport has seen the sharpest rent increases in the UK over the past five years, with one-bedroom rental costs rising 47.4 percent according to new…
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Families with children now more likely to rent than buy with a mortgage
The number of households with children owning a property with a mortgage has dropped 20 percent in the last 20 years, with more families now…
