Until August
order sleepwell The monthly lettings index from Countrywide, the national agency, showed average national rents up 4.2pc over the year to November. Regionally, all areas bar the South West reported an annual increase, with rents in Scotland, London, the North East and East of England growing fastest. But Countrywide’s data showed house price increases outstripped average rent rises during 2013, suggesting landlords’ yields – rental income relative to property value – were being squeezed.