Renting in the UK — your rights by city

Every city has different rental pressures, common issues, and council resources. Find your city below for local rental stats, the most common tenancy problems in your area, and how the Renters' Rights Act 2025 affects you.

East Midlands

Nottingham Leicester Northampton Derby Lincoln Loughborough Mansfield Chesterfield Grantham Corby Kettering Wellingborough Market Harborough Stamford Buxton Matlock Bakewell Glossop Ashbourne Belper Ripley Ilkeston Long Eaton Hinckley Melton Mowbray Oakham Spalding Boston Skegness Gainsborough Worksop Retford Newark-on-Trent Southwell Louth Towcester Daventry Brackley Brigg Cleethorpes Coalville Corby Desborough Grantham Long Sutton Loughborough Mansfield Oundle Rushden Sleaford Stamford Swadlincote Thrapston

East of England

Cambridge Luton Norwich Peterborough Ipswich Watford Colchester Chelmsford Basildon Southend-on-Sea Bedford Stevenage Harlow Welwyn Garden City St Albans King's Lynn Bury St Edmunds Sudbury Lowestoft Great Yarmouth Thetford Attleborough Baldock Biggleswade Billericay Bishop's Stortford Braintree Brentwood Burnham-on-Crouch Cromer Dereham Diss Ely Hadleigh Halstead Harlow Hertford Holt Hunstanton Huntingdon Letchworth Garden City Maldon March Rayleigh Royston Saffron Walden St Neots Stowmarket Sudbury Thetford Ware Woburn Wymondham

Greater London

London

Camden Hackney Islington Tower Hamlets Lambeth Southwark Lewisham Newham Haringey Ashford (Middlesex)Woolwich

North East

Newcastle upon Tyne Sunderland Middlesbrough Darlington Hartlepool Hexham Alnwick Durham Bishop Auckland Consett Morpeth Berwick-upon-Tweed Bedlington Blyth Cramlington Ferryhill Hexham Seaham Thornaby-on-Tees Tynemouth Whitley Bay Yarm

North West

Manchester Liverpool Stockport Salford Wigan Bolton Rochdale Oldham Burnley Blackburn Blackpool Preston Warrington Kendal Penrith Carlisle Barrow-in-Furness Lancaster Chorley Crewe Macclesfield Congleton Chester Ellesmere Port Northwich Accrington Cockermouth Colne Fleetwood Garstang Keswick Leigh Nantwich Ramsbottom Rochdale Runcorn Skelmersdale Ulverston Whitehaven Widnes Wigton Wilmslow Winsford

Scotland

Edinburgh Glasgow Aberdeen Dundee Stirling Inverness Perth Hawick Johnstone Kelso Montrose Oban

South East

Brighton and Hove Southampton Reading Oxford Milton Keynes Portsmouth Slough Woking Hastings Crawley Maidstone Canterbury Guildford Winchester Chichester Worthing Eastbourne Tunbridge Wells Basingstoke High Wycombe Aylesbury Abingdon Banbury Witney Bicester Newbury Andover Henley-on-Thames Marlow Maidenhead Windsor Epsom Reigate Dorking Sevenoaks Tonbridge Ashford Folkestone Dover Deal Margate Ramsgate Whitstable Herne Bay Faversham Sittingbourne Gravesend Dartford Chatham Rochester Gillingham Bexhill-on-Sea Lewes Horsham Burgess Hill Haywards Heath Littlehampton Bognor Regis Petersfield Alton Fareham Gosport Havant Lymington Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Arundel Beaconsfield Bexhill-on-Sea Bletchley Bognor Regis Bordon Broadstairs Chesham Chipping Norton Crowborough Crowthorne Didcot Edenbridge Faringdon Fordingbridge Gerrards Cross Godalming Great Missenden Hailsham Horley Hythe Kidlington Lewes Lymington Margate New Milton Newbury Ringwood Romsey Ryde Shanklin Sittingbourne Totton Uckfield Ventnor Wantage Whitchurch (Hampshire)Witney Woodstock

South West

Bristol Plymouth Bournemouth Exeter Bath Swindon Gloucester Cheltenham Taunton Torquay Truro Salisbury Chippenham Trowbridge Frome Bridgwater Yeovil Dorchester Weymouth Poole Christchurch Falmouth Newquay Penzance Barnstaple Tiverton Totnes Dartmouth Tavistock Okehampton Teignmouth Dawlish Newton Abbot Paignton Brixham Crediton Honiton Axminster Sidmouth Exmouth Wells Glastonbury Shepton Mallet Chard Minehead Stroud Cirencester Tetbury Amesbury Barnstaple Bideford Blandford Forum Burnham-on-Sea Callington Camborne Castle Cary Chard Cinderford Corsham Dartmouth Dursley Hayle Highbridge Ilminster Keynsham Launceston Liskeard Lostwithiel Minehead Newton Abbot Okehampton Paignton Poole Portishead Redruth Shaftesbury Shepton Mallet Sherborne St Austell St Ives (Cornwall)Tiverton Great Torrington Trowbridge Wadebridge Wareham Warminster Wimborne Minster Royal Wootton Bassett Yatton

Wales

Cardiff Swansea Newport Wrexham Bangor Haverfordwest Holyhead Merthyr Tydfil Monmouth Pembroke Prestatyn Pwllheli Welshpool

West Midlands

Birmingham Coventry Wolverhampton Stoke-on-Trent Worcester Hereford Shrewsbury Telford Walsall Dudley Solihull Stratford-upon-Avon Warwick Leamington Spa Rugby Kenilworth Bromsgrove Redditch Kidderminster Tamworth Nuneaton Evesham Pershore Great Malvern Ludlow Oswestry Market Drayton Stafford Lichfield Burton upon Trent Leek Uttoxeter Atherstone Droitwich Spa Ellesmere Halesowen Hereford Ledbury Leominster Lichfield Oakengates Oswestry Pershore Ross-on-Wye Rugby Shrewsbury Tamworth Wednesbury

Yorkshire and the Humber

Leeds Sheffield York Bradford Grimsby Hull Doncaster Rotherham Barnsley Wakefield Huddersfield Halifax Harrogate Scarborough Skipton Ripon Beverley Bridlington Whitby Castleford Goole Hawes Holmfirth Hornsea Keighley Knaresborough Pocklington Pontefract Richmond (North Yorkshire)Todmorden Wetherby

New law from 1 May 2026: The Renters' Rights Act 2025 abolishes Section 21 evictions, ends fixed-term tenancies, limits rent increases to once per year, and gives tenants the right to request pets. Read our full guide →