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

Average private rent a month

July 2026 Revised

£1,393a month

Average private rent a month was £1,393 in July 2026, up 3.7% (£50) from £1,343 in July 2025.

▲ 3.7% · +£50 against July 2025 (year on year)

ONS estimate
July 2026
published 19 August 2026
Table 1
row “United Kingdom”
column “Rental price”
cell value 1393

July 2026 is the highest figure in the published series: £1,393. Rule: highest of the 139 periods published here (January 2015 to July 2026).

January 2015 to July 2026

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What this measures

The average monthly rent for a privately rented property in the area, from the ONS Price Index of Private Rents, which models rents across the whole stock of private tenancies from letting-agent and Valuation Office data, not only new lets. Bedroom breakdowns are held on the same series.

What this doesn’t measure

The asking rent for a property advertised today, which is usually higher than the average across all tenancies, nor social rents, nor what any particular tenant pays.

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: Rental price
Cell value: 1393
Geography: United Kingdom
Unit: £ a month
API: /api/metrics/rent_private_monthly · /series · /vintages

Related metrics

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–	£1,260June 2024	£1,393July 2026	↑ 10.6%
Conservative 2019–2024	£1,016November 2019	£1,260June 2024	↑ 24.0%
Conservative 2017–2019	£977May 2017	£1,016November 2019	↑ 4.0%
Conservative 2015–2017	£918April 2015	£977May 2017	↑ 6.4%

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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)