been 950 per calendar month. we re expecting it to go on the market, 1100, something like that. it s not the landlords profiteering from high rents. the costs to the landlords have increased quite significantly, and those costs are being passed on. the trouble is wages haven t grown to match. so that s why rent is eating up more of people s incomes than at any point in more than a decade. you can see the decorators are busy in here freshening it up before it goes back on to the market. with so many renters after each home, karen knows this place will be snapped up in a flash. have you ever seen rent increase by this much before? no, i haven t. it s not normal, but it may be how it s going to be for the future. well, i chose to stay in york.. and that s exactly the crunch hannah has been caught in. itjust feelsjust quite discouraging and quite nerve wracking, especially when you have a job lined up that you need to start. she s beginning a new post as a teacher in september, but finding