Rent costs soar ahead of Coalition market controls debate

Rents rose last month as the Coalition hotly debated the scale of market controls to cool rocketing private rents.

CSO figures published yesterday showed that, apart from car insurance, private landlord rents were the only item on the consumer price index that continued to climb steeply in the latest month and in the year.

Rent prices increased by a significant 0.5% in the month and are now 10.3% more expensive than October 2014, the figures show.