Wigan and newport. Lets speak to marc ashdown, business correspondent. How rapidly have rents been rising . The bbc teamed up with that property portal and we asked them to track rent rises over the past three years. Between 2020 and 2023, they looked at 65 areas across the whole of the uk. For the areas which have seen the biggest increases. This graph tells a story. This is the average amount rents have gone up across the uk, just under 31 . These are the areas that have seen the biggest increases. Manchester, bolton, glasgow as you would expect. But six out of these ten are areas close to cities but not cities. These are towns within touching distance of cities. They have seen the biggest rent increases, luton, newport, bolton. Nearly 39 over the last three years, rents have gone up in bolton. 15 injust the last year. One of the Estate Agents we spoke to said in his 23 years, he hasnt seen anything like it, he described a staggering. Baez hasnt seen anything like it, he described a
it s been strained, to put it mildly. what do you think we should expect from these briefings? right now they are saying these will be telephone briefings for now. we are not going to see a spokesperson as part of a podium like we are used to seeing whether it be a white house or transitions past. this will be the first opportunity for the trump campaign, the trump transition really to provide their own side of the story. we saw a few minutes ago mayor bill de blasio giving a readout of his meeting. we saw foreign leaders readout of meetings with the president-elect. we haven t heard from the folks in trump tower working with him from the president-elect himself about their side of the story, who they are appointing, who they are considering, what they are looking for, what their processes are. and did today is a pivotal mome because the landing teams will hit the departments and agencies here in washington. there s a lot to catch up on both and also inform the public on. we jus
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