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If someone is forced to sell their house and stays in the same area, rental prices should go up I would say.

As seemingly everywhere around the globe interest rates have gone up, the influx of new home buyers have gone down. Those people have to compete with each other at the rental market. Unless your country is able to create a new big supply of rental homes to somewhat balance the market, the rental price is definitely not stable, but trending upwards.

In the Netherlands we are getting stricter rental controls to keep the rental price to not increase that much. Some people are sitting between a rock and a hard place now: not able to buy, not able to save due to high rents.