Mortgage interest costs have gone up, and rents have gone up alongside them. I live in a 1-bedroom flat in Zone 2; before Covid, we rented a 1-bed with garden for £1450; when we moved a year ago, cost went up to £1600. Now we're moving again, and it looks like prices have gone up to £1700-1800.
Thank you - I doubt it has much to do with interest costs though. 1450 before Covid to 1750 now pretty much matches CPI exactly, so in real terms rents have remained the same. Not that it makes paying it any easier, of course - rents and house prices are still outrageously high.