RENTS UP 11%

Housing crisis deepened by rocketing rates

- DAN VEVERS & CHRIS MCCALL

HOUSING campaigners have reacted with fury after private rents spiked by nearly 11 per cent in a year.

The average rent in Scotland was at £944 a month in February - up by £93, an inflation-busting 10.9 per cent, on 2023, the Office for National Statistics found.

Activists slammed the "runaway rents" - as a fourth local authority prepares to declare a housing emergency.