Being a renter is becoming more affordable with costs rising at half of the level of earnings growth during the past year
Nov 19 , 2019
Average rents increased by 2% to stand at £876 in the 12 months to the end of September. By contrast average weekly earnings climbed by 4% during the same period. As a result, the typical renter now spends 31.8% of their earnings on rent, down from a peak of 33.3% in 2016, according to Zoopla's Rental Market Report, which records trends in the often-neglec