Newly agreed rents rose slightly last month, referencing firm HomeLet has reported.

It says that average new monthly rents in the UK excluding London are now £729, and in London £1,464.

According to HomeLet, new rents went up by 2.4% in London and 3% in the south-east.

However, in East Anglia, newly agreed rents rose by just 1%, and in the south-west dropped by 0.9%.

The biggest monthly fall was in the north-west, where there was a drop of 3.5%

Elsewhere, rents went up by 1.9% in the west midlands and by 1% in the east midlands.