A view of a row of residential houses in London, Britain, January 23, 2025. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

LONDON (Reuters) -British house prices in September were 2.6% higher than a year earlier, the smallest annual rise since May and down from an upwardly revised increase of 3.1% in August, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed on Wednesday.

Private-sector rents for homes in October were 5.0% higher than a year earlier, down from a 5.5% annual increase in September and the smallest such rise since August 2022.

(Reporting by David Milliken; editing by Suban Abdulla)