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Total rent paid by tenants drops for first time in 10 years – Countrywide

Private tenants in Britain in 2018 paid £59.1 billion on rent – that’s £1.9 billion less than in 2017 and the first fall in a decade.

The data comes from Countrywide’s high-end brand Hamptons International, which produces a monthly lettings sector market report.

Hamptons says the 2018 fall has been driven by a drop in the number of households renting and rental growth stagnating.

In the long term, however, and assessed over the last 10 years, the total rent bill has increased by £29.9 billion in Great Britain.

Between 2008 and 2018 the number of households privately renting has grown by 1.7 million (that’s a rise of 52 per cent) and rents have increased by 12.4 per cent.

In 2018 nine out of 11 regions in Great Britain saw a fall in their total rent bill: the East Midlands and the North East were the only regions to see a rise.

London saw the biggest drop off in the total amount of rent paid by tenants. last year: renters in the capital paid £20.6 billion in rent in 2018, £0.62 billion less than in 2017.

Aneisha Beveridge, head of research at Hamptons International, says: “The total amount of rent paid by tenants in Great Britain fell for the first time in over a decade last year.  Despite average rents rising 0.4% in 2018, fewer people renting homes meant the total rent bill shrank by £1.9 billion since 2017.”

Meanwhile Hamptons also says the rate of rental growth has slowed over the last 12 months across the country.

In January the average cost of a new let rose 0.6 per cent year-on-year compared with 2.4 per cent in January 2018.

London led the slowdown over the last year, but rents have gradually started to rise again. The average cost of a new let in the capital rose 0.6 per cent year-on-year in January.

Meanwhile the South East and South West both recorded rents falling 0.5 per cent year-on-year.

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