SpareRoom data reveals London's rental market is losing flatsharers to well-connected Home Counties locations, with Waltham Abbey seeing a 113% surge in renter interest.

Belfast room rents have climbed 53% in five years, the steepest increase among the UK’s 20 largest cities.

Liverpool rents rose 40% in five years, prompting sharp demand in Birkenhead (+33%) and Widnes (+22%).

Rental supply from lodger landlords who rent out rooms in their own homes makes up a quarter of all supply in the flat share market, but is now in decline.