asking price offer. so we ended up having to pay 2,150 a month instead of the asking price. although london prices are the most, price rises are happening everywhere. so we think that rents will probably keep rising around the 5% mark both this year and next year, and that will outpace house price growth. and so much of that comes down to the supply issue that we re facing here across great britain. and the fact that landlord costs are rising, too. wherever you live, there are things you can do to try and get your application to the top of the pile. try and turn up to a viewing with paperwork in your hand. don t forget to register with as many different estate agents as you can so that you can get alerts before properties are advertised. make sure that you re popping in and introducing yourself to an estate agent as well, so that you are at the front of their mind when properties are coming up on the market. this beautiful space. however long the list, demi and andrew haven t given up
keep rising around the 5% mark both this year and next year, and that will outpace house price growth. and so much of that comes down to the supply issue that we re facing here across great britain. and the fact that landlord costs are rising, too. however long the list, demi and andrew haven t given up hope. it s lovely. i could see us here. yeah, i could see us here. coletta smith, bbc news, in leyland. and if you re worried about renting and the cost of living generally, there s more tips on the bbc news website on the tackling it together section. the prime minister will appear in front of the infected blood inquiry later this afternoon. it s thought that 30,000 people in the uk were given contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 80s. bereaved familes want rishi sunak to accept compensation recommendations made three months ago by the inquiry s chairman. some victims have received financial support but not all have been fully compensated.
so we think that rents will probably keep rising around the 5% mark both this year and next year, and that will outpace house price growth. and so much of that comes down to the supply issue that we re facing here across great britain. and the fact that landlord costs are rising, too. however long the list, demi and andrew haven t given up hope. it s lovely. i could see us here. yeah, i could see us here. coletta smith, bbc news, in leyland. thanks so much for watching here, it s time for the 6pm news. bye bye for now. hello. wednesday did bring us a bit of blue sky and sunshine, particularly for many northern and eastern parts of the uk. but really, july 2023 is turning out to be a pretty soggy month for much of the uk. and there s more rain overnight tonight, moving from west to east. quite a humid feel to
rightly say, these up, one of them, as you rightly say, is supplied. we have a housing rightly say, is supplied. we have a housing crisis, and underpinning that is housing crisis, and underpinning that is the housing crisis, and underpinning that is the fact that supplies not keeping that is the fact that supplies not keeping up with demand and that will inevitably keeping up with demand and that will inevitably lead to the kind of competition that renters were talking competition that renters were talking about. i think there is also an increasing cost of doing business, landlord costs are going up business, landlord costs are going up as business, landlord costs are going up as much business, landlord costs are going up as much as households are. actually, up as much as households are. actually, landlords are being taxed increasingly more at the moment because increasingly more at the moment because of the way the government have changed the way that landlords are t