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ONS · Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics (ONS)

Private rent annual change

July 2026 Revised

3.7%

Private rent annual change was 3.7% in July 2026, up 0.4 percentage points from 3.3% in June 2026.

▲ +0.4 percentage points against June 2026 (previous period)

  1. ONS percentage
  2. July 2026
  3. published 19 August 2026
  4. Table 1
  5. row “United Kingdom”
  6. column “Annual change”
  7. cell value 3.666465

The series is falling. Rule: down 38.1% from July 2025 to July 2026.

January 2016 to July 2026

Private rent annual change: January 2016 to July 2026ConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour0%2.5%5%7.5%201620182020202220242026January 2016: 3.3% percent · published 19 August 2026February 2016: 3.3% percent · published 19 August 2026March 2016: 3.4% percent · published 19 August 2026April 2016: 3.3% percent · published 19 August 2026May 2016: 3.2% percent · published 19 August 2026June 2016: 3.3% percent · published 19 August 2026July 2016: 3.4% percent · published 19 August 2026August 2016: 3.3% percent · published 19 August 2026September 2016: 3.2% percent · published 19 August 2026October 2016: 3.3% percent · published 19 August 2026November 2016: 3.4% percent · published 19 August 2026December 2016: 3.4% percent · published 19 August 2026January 2017: 3.3% percent · published 19 August 2026February 2017: 3.2% percent · published 19 August 2026March 2017: 3% percent · published 19 August 2026April 2017: 3% percent · published 19 August 2026May 2017: 2.7% percent · published 19 August 2026June 2017: 2.6% percent · published 19 August 2026July 2017: 2.5% percent · published 19 August 2026August 2017: 2.2% percent · published 19 August 2026September 2017: 1.9% percent · published 19 August 2026October 2017: 1.8% percent · published 19 August 2026November 2017: 1.6% percent · published 19 August 2026December 2017: 1.5% percent · published 19 August 2026January 2018: 1.2% percent · published 19 August 2026February 2018: 1.3% percent · published 19 August 2026March 2018: 1% percent · published 19 August 2026April 2018: 0.8% percent · published 19 August 2026May 2018: 0.8% percent · published 19 August 2026June 2018: 0.7% percent · published 19 August 2026July 2018: 0.6% percent · published 19 August 2026August 2018: 0.7% percent · published 19 August 2026September 2018: 0.9% percent · published 19 August 2026October 2018: 1% percent · published 19 August 2026November 2018: 1.1% percent · published 19 August 2026December 2018: 1.2% percent · published 19 August 2026January 2019: 1.4% percent · published 19 August 2026February 2019: 1.4% percent · published 19 August 2026March 2019: 1.6% percent · published 19 August 2026April 2019: 1.6% percent · published 19 August 2026May 2019: 2.1% percent · published 19 August 2026June 2019: 2% percent · published 19 August 2026July 2019: 1.9% percent · published 19 August 2026August 2019: 2% percent · published 19 August 2026September 2019: 2.2% percent · published 19 August 2026October 2019: 2.2% percent · published 19 August 2026November 2019: 2.1% percent · published 19 August 2026December 2019: 2.1% percent · published 19 August 2026January 2020: 2.2% percent · published 19 August 2026February 2020: 2.2% percent · published 19 August 2026March 2020: 2.2% percent · published 19 August 2026April 2020: 2.1% percent · published 19 August 2026May 2020: 1.8% percent · published 19 August 2026June 2020: 1.8% percent · published 19 August 2026July 2020: 1.9% percent · published 19 August 2026August 2020: 1.7% percent · published 19 August 2026September 2020: 1.5% percent · published 19 August 2026October 2020: 1.5% percent · published 19 August 2026November 2020: 1.3% percent · published 19 August 2026December 2020: 1.2% percent · published 19 August 2026January 2021: 1.1% percent · published 19 August 2026February 2021: 1.1% percent · published 19 August 2026March 2021: 1.1% percent · published 19 August 2026April 2021: 1.1% percent · published 19 August 2026May 2021: 1% percent · published 19 August 2026June 2021: 1.2% percent · published 19 August 2026July 2021: 1.1% percent · published 19 August 2026August 2021: 1.3% percent · published 19 August 2026September 2021: 1.5% percent · published 19 August 2026October 2021: 1.7% percent · published 19 August 2026November 2021: 2% percent · published 19 August 2026December 2021: 2.5% percent · published 19 August 2026January 2022: 2.7% percent · published 19 August 2026February 2022: 3% percent · published 19 August 2026March 2022: 3.2% percent · published 19 August 2026April 2022: 3.6% percent · published 19 August 2026May 2022: 4% percent · published 19 August 2026June 2022: 4.1% percent · published 19 August 2026July 2022: 4.5% percent · published 19 August 2026August 2022: 4.8% percent · published 19 August 2026September 2022: 5.1% percent · published 19 August 2026October 2022: 5.2% percent · published 19 August 2026November 2022: 5.5% percent · published 19 August 2026December 2022: 5.6% percent · published 19 August 2026January 2023: 5.8% percent · published 19 August 2026February 2023: 6% percent · published 19 August 2026March 2023: 6.2% percent · published 19 August 2026April 2023: 6.6% percent · published 19 August 2026May 2023: 7.2% percent · published 19 August 2026June 2023: 7.6% percent · published 19 August 2026July 2023: 7.9% percent · published 19 August 2026August 2023: 8.1% percent · published 19 August 2026September 2023: 8.1% percent · published 19 August 2026October 2023: 8.4% percent · published 19 August 2026November 2023: 8.4% percent · published 19 August 2026December 2023: 8.4% percent · published 19 August 2026January 2024: 8.5% percent · published 19 August 2026February 2024: 8.9% percent · published 19 August 2026March 2024: 9.1% percent · published 19 August 2026April 2024: 8.9% percent · published 19 August 2026May 2024: 8.7% percent · published 19 August 2026June 2024: 8.6% percent · published 19 August 2026July 2024: 8.5% percent · published 19 August 2026August 2024: 8.4% percent · published 19 August 2026September 2024: 8.4% percent · published 19 August 2026October 2024: 8.6% percent · published 19 August 2026November 2024: 9% percent · published 19 August 2026December 2024: 9% percent · published 19 August 2026January 2025: 8.7% percent · published 19 August 2026February 2025: 8.1% percent · published 19 August 2026March 2025: 7.7% percent · published 19 August 2026April 2025: 7.4% percent · published 19 August 2026May 2025: 7% percent · published 19 August 2026June 2025: 6.7% percent · published 19 August 2026July 2025: 5.9% percent · published 19 August 2026August 2025: 5.7% percent · published 19 August 2026September 2025: 5.5% percent · published 19 August 2026October 2025: 5% percent · published 19 August 2026November 2025: 4.4% percent · published 19 August 2026December 2025: 3.9% percent · published 19 August 2026January 2026: 3.5% percent · published 19 August 2026February 2026: 3.6% percent · published 19 August 2026March 2026: 3.4% percent · published 19 August 2026April 2026: 3.5% percent · published 19 August 2026May 2026: 3.3% percent · published 19 August 2026June 2026: 3.3% percent · published 19 August 2026July 2026: 3.7% percent · published 19 August 2026
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What this measures

The percentage change in the Price Index of Private Rents for the area compared with the same month a year earlier.

What this doesn’t measure

The rise a sitting tenant or a new tenant faced: the index blends new lets and continuing tenancies across the whole private rented stock.

Important caveat

The Price Index of Private Rents estimates the average rent across all private tenancies in an area, new lets and continuing tenancies, modelled from Valuation Office Agency data in England and the equivalent bodies in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It is not an asking-rent series and usually sits below advertised rents for new lets. Recent months are revised as data arrives. The site holds England and Wales local authorities plus UK, country and region totals; Scottish councils and Northern Ireland districts are in the source but outside the site's geography registry.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
ONS
Publication
Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics (ONS)
Release
August 2026 (rents to July 2026), published 19 August 2026
Source file
pipr-monthly-2026-08.xlsx
File SHA-256
9e172e7d32a43c8c979a6d394d717d862f66775295f604d2f223b2035374223e
Retrieved
3 September 2026
Sheet
Table 1
Table
Table 1
Row
United Kingdom
Column
Annual change
Cell value
3.666465
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
percent
API
/api/metrics/rent_private_annual_change · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Labour 2024–8.6%June 20243.7%July 2026↓ 57.2%
Conservative 2019–20242.1%November 20198.6%June 2024↑ 300.7%
Conservative 2017–20192.7%May 20172.1%November 2019↓ 19.4%

Full comparison with chart

Release
August 2026 (rents to July 2026) · publication page
Last updated
19 August 2026
Next release expected
Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)