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

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

Greater London

London

Camden Hackney Islington Tower Hamlets Lambeth Southwark Lewisham Newham Haringey

North East

Newcastle upon Tyne Sunderland Middlesbrough Darlington Hartlepool Hexham Alnwick Durham Bishop Auckland Consett Morpeth Berwick-upon-Tweed

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

Scotland

Edinburgh Glasgow Aberdeen Dundee Stirling Inverness Perth

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

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

Wales

Cardiff Swansea Newport Wrexham Bangor

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

Yorkshire and the Humber

Leeds Sheffield York Bradford Grimsby Hull Doncaster Rotherham Barnsley Wakefield Huddersfield Halifax Harrogate Scarborough Skipton Ripon Beverley Bridlington Whitby

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 →