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The Viiyoo LHA indexEach month by emailOctober 2026 figures published · November 2026's in early December

The Viiyoo LHA index · free, no account

How far does the LHA go in your council?

A free monthly email comparing the Local Housing Allowance with the rents actually advertised in any council in Great Britain. Choose your councils; each one's figures arrive when the month is published.

  • The share of advertised rentals within the LHA, and how it moved on the month before.
  • The rent shortfall by bedroom size: the LHA rate beside the 30th-percentile asking rent.
  • Where your council stands among all 350, and against Great Britain.

For anyone: a housing officer, a councillor, a journalist, a researcher. Counted and compared from advertised listings, never estimated or modelled; how the figures are calculated.

Each month, by email

Choose your councils

One email per council, each month, when the figures are published. Confirm by email first; unsubscribe at any time.

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    What arrives

    The email, with one council's real figures

    One email per council, each month, written for a housing officer to forward to a councillor. This is October 2026's, as published; the council's page it links to carries every size, the ward map and every month since June 2024. The homes-for-sale line is a gross-yield screen at the LHA rent before costs, not a return.

    From Viiyoo · Birmingham: 2.6% of homes to rent within the LHA, October 2026

    Homes to rent within the LHA
    2.6%↓ 0.1 points from 2.7% in September

    341 of 12,915 homes advertised to rent in the six months to 31 October 2026 were within the allowance for their size.

    • Among councils98th of 346
    • Great Britain2.5%
    • For sale, meeting the 7% screen480 of 6,812

    By size: today's 30th-percentile asking rent against the rate set in April 2024

    • 1 bed and studios · 5,052 homes£170 above the LHALHA £695 · asking rent £865 at the 30th percentile
    • 2 bed · 5,248 homes£350 above the LHALHA £750 · asking rent £1,100 at the 30th percentile
    • 3 bed · 2,212 homes£375 above the LHALHA £825 · asking rent £1,200 at the 30th percentile
    • 4 bed · 403 homes£400 above the LHALHA £1,100 · asking rent £1,500 at the 30th percentile

    The council's page, with every size, the ward map and the trend →

    Advertised rents and prices, compared with LHA rates set in April 2024 and held since. Unsubscribe link in every email.

    Looking for one council first? Find it in the table: every council's page has the same form, with its bordering councils ready to add.

    A month's figures are kept as published. A correction, if one were ever needed, would be published beside them and labelled, never swapped in.