Statistics New Zealand's released its May rental price data.

Consumer prices manager Gael Price says Wellington has a very high rate of rental inflation, ranging between seven and eleven percent this year.

Price says Wellingtonians who are changing tenancies will notice a significant difference in what they have to pay.

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