Private rents, annual change
Percentage change in the Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR) of the Office for National Statistics compared with the same month a year earlier. The index follows rents paid on new and existing private tenancies. Not seasonally adjusted. United Kingdom, its nations and English regions, and local authorities in England and Wales.
Rent inflation for sitting and new tenants together, so it moves more slowly than asking rents on new listings. It is not the actual rents component of consumer price inflation (CPI or CPIH), which also covers social housing.
Key facts
- Published for 329 places, with figures from January 2016 to August 2026.
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- South East
- London
- North West
- East of England
- West Midlands
- South West
- Yorkshire and The Humber
- Scotland
- East Midlands
- Wales
- North East
- Northern Ireland
Provinces and counties
- Birmingham
- Leeds
- North Yorkshire
- Somerset
- Manchester
- Cornwall
- Buckinghamshire
- Sheffield
- Bradford
- County Durham
- Calderdale
- Shropshire
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Bedford
- Wiltshire
- Northumberland
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest private rents, annual change? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"private_rent_annual_change","level":"country"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=private_rent_annual_change&level=country