Private rents elevated by 5.9% to a mean of £1,343 a month, in the 12 months to July, the Office for National Statistics reveals.
The newest determine represents a lower from the 6.7% in the 12 months to June.
This morning, the ONS reported that UK inflation had risen to 3.8% in the 12 months to July, up from 3.6% in June.
Across the nation, common rents elevated by 6.7% to £1,398 in England, by 7.9% to £807 in Wales, and by 3.6% to £999 in Scotland, in the 12 months to July.
In Northern Ireland, common rents lifted by 7.4% to £855 in the 12 months to May.
In England, personal rents annual inflation was highest in the North East at 8.9% and lowest in Yorkshire and The Humber at 3.5%, in the 12 months to June.
The North East continued to have the best lease annual inflation fee of all English areas, at 8.9%, in the 12 months to July.
This annual rise was decrease than the joint record-high in the 12 months to June at 9.7%.
Rent annual inflation remained lowest in Yorkshire and The Humber, at 3.5%, in the 12 months to July.
This annual rise remained unchanged from in the 12 months to June, following a 12 months of slowing annual inflation.
London’s annual inflation was 6.3% in the 12 months to July, down from 7.3% in the 12 months to June. This was the eighth consecutive month of slowing annual inflation.
Average lease was highest in London at £2,250 and lowest in the North East at £736 in July.
