{"id":97524,"date":"2025-05-13T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/97524\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T08:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:05:08","slug":"cotswolds-rental-market-exceeds-wider-south-of-england-claims-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/97524\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotswolds rental market exceeds wider south of England, claims agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lettings agency claims the Cotswolds is a solid buy to let investment location \u2013 and it says it has the figures to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen the Cotswolds consistently outperform national rentals, and this \u2018bucking of the trend\u2019 continued throughout 2024 and into 2025\u201d claims Fergus Mitchell, director of The Cotswold Letting Agency,<\/p>\n<p>He says the average Cotswolds rental now stands at \u00a32,118 \u2013 significantly higher than the South West (\u00a31,400) and South East (\u00a31,770) averages, with only London commanding higher rates at approximately \u00a32,620.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024 rental prices surges by almost 22% across the Cotswolds.<\/p>\n<p>Despite healthy year-end figures showing available listings up 16.8% versus the national average increase of around 13%, and new listings\u00a0rising by 28.1% compared to 22.5% in the South, the data revealed agreed lets were down by almost 4%.<\/p>\n<p>The agency\u2019s data suggests that correctly pricing properties has become crucial in the current market, with even a one-month void period resulting in an 8% loss of annual rental income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lettings agency claims the Cotswolds is a solid buy to let investment location \u2013 and it says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,40169,16,40170,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-97524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-regional-insights","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-uk-property-market-analysis","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114499493807593257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}