# Rental yield calculator: UK Rental Yield Index

> The median published figure in the UK Rental Yield Index is 1,037.50 GBP across 10 figures from 2 sources' own pages (range 560 to 1,767 GBP), read 12 October 2026.

Yieldzo · https://yieldzo.com/datasets/uk-rental-yield-index/ · computed 2026-10-19

**Median published figure:** 1,037.5 GBP (range 560 to 1,767 GBP; 10 sources with a figure; 2 of 10 sources read publish one).

2 of the 10 named sources read in full publish a figure; 8 publish none, read 12 October 2026.

The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 1,037.50 GBP across 10).

## By area and bedrooms

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| area United Kingdom | 1,393 GBP | 1,393 to 1,393 GBP | 1 |
| area England | 1,451 GBP | 1,451 to 1,451 GBP | 1 |
| area Northern Ireland | 875 GBP | 875 to 875 GBP | 1 |
| area Lothian | 1,356 GBP | 1,356 to 1,356 GBP | 1 |
| area Dumfries and Galloway | 569 GBP | 569 to 569 GBP | 1 |
| bedrooms 1 bedroom | 738 GBP | 738 to 738 GBP | 1 |
| bedrooms 2 bedroom | 921 GBP | 921 to 921 GBP | 1 |
| bedrooms 3 bedroom | 1,154 GBP | 1,154 to 1,154 GBP | 1 |
| bedrooms 4 bedroom | 1,767 GBP | 1,767 to 1,767 GBP | 1 |
| bedrooms 1 bedroom shared | 560 GBP | 560 to 560 GBP | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2025 (gov.scot)](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/) | 1,767 GBP | 4 bedroom | 2026-10-12 |
| [ONS Private rent and house prices, UK: August 2026 (the dated snapshot)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/august2026) | 1,451 GBP | England | 2026-10-12 |
| [ONS Private rent and house prices, UK: August 2026 (the dated snapshot)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/august2026) | 1,393 GBP | United Kingdom | 2026-10-12 |
| [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2025 (gov.scot)](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/) | 1,356 GBP | Lothian | 2026-10-12 |
| [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2025 (gov.scot)](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/) | 1,154 GBP | 3 bedroom | 2026-10-12 |
| [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2025 (gov.scot)](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/) | 921 GBP | 2 bedroom | 2026-10-12 |
| [ONS Private rent and house prices, UK: August 2026 (the dated snapshot)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/august2026) | 875 GBP | Northern Ireland | 2026-10-12 |
| [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2025 (gov.scot)](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/) | 738 GBP | 1 bedroom | 2026-10-12 |
| [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2025 (gov.scot)](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/) | 569 GBP | Dumfries and Galloway | 2026-10-12 |
| [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2025 (gov.scot)](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/) | 560 GBP | 1 bedroom shared | 2026-10-12 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (10)

- [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2025 (gov.scot)](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/), read 2026-10-12: "-1.5% or -£26 for 4-bedroom properties, falling to £1,767 per month."
- [ONS Private rent and house prices, UK: August 2026 (the dated snapshot)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/august2026), read 2026-10-12: "Average rents increased to £1,451 (3.8%) in England, £843 (4.5%) in Wales, and £1,016 (1.7%) in Scotland, in the 12 months to July 2026."
- [ONS Private rent and house prices, UK: August 2026 (the dated snapshot)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/august2026), read 2026-10-12: "Average UK monthly private rent increased by 3.7%, to £1,393, in the 12 months to July 2026 (provisional estimate); this annual growth rate is up from 3.3% in the 12 months to June 2026."
- [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2025 (gov.scot)](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/), read 2026-10-12: "Lothian had the highest average monthly 2 bedroom rent (£1,356) in the latest year to end September 2025."
- [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2025 (gov.scot)](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/), read 2026-10-12: "+1.6% or +£18 for 3-bedroom properties, reaching £1,154 per month."
- [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2025 (gov.scot)](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/), read 2026-10-12: "+3.1% or +£28 for 2-bedroom properties, reaching £921 per month."
- [ONS Private rent and house prices, UK: August 2026 (the dated snapshot)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/august2026), read 2026-10-12: "In Northern Ireland, average rents increased to £875 (2.3%), in the 12 months to May 2026."
- [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2025 (gov.scot)](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/), read 2026-10-12: "+4.0% or +£28 for 1-bedroom properties, reaching £738 per month."
- [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2025 (gov.scot)](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/), read 2026-10-12: "Lothian had the highest average monthly 2 bedroom rent (£1,356) in the latest year to end September 2025. Dumfries and Galloway had the lowest (£569)."
- [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2025 (gov.scot)](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/), read 2026-10-12: "+5.5% or +£29 for 1 bedroom shared properties, reaching £560 per month."

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [ONS Private rent and house prices, UK (latest)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/latest), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [ONS Price Index of Private Rents QMI](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/methodologies/priceindexofprivaterentsqmi), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [ONS Price Index of Private Rents detailed methodology](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/methodologies/priceindexofprivaterentsdetailedmethodology), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [HM Land Registry UK House Price Index (interactive)](https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi/), read 2026-10-17: every candidate on the page was refused
- [UK House Price Index browse (per-area series)](https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi/browse), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [UK House Price Index reports collection (GOV.UK)](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-house-price-index-reports), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland: 2 bedroom properties](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/pages/2-bedroom-properties/), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [NISRA / Land and Property Services Northern Ireland House Price Index](https://www.nisra.gov.uk/news/average-house-price-northern-ireland-rises-ps198015), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 10 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 8 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 10 figures, never sentences; 50 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): gross yield computed for every UK local authority and Broad Rental Market Area as the authority's own published average monthly rent x 12 divided by the same authority's average house price, from the two official series that nobody divides by each other: ONS Price Index of Private Rents average rents and the HM Land Registry / ONS UK House Price Index average price, with the Scottish BRMA rents and the NISRA NI price where the geography differs. Published per area and per bedroom count, with the rank, the quartile spread across the UK, the 12-month change in each leg, and changed-since the previous read so a turning area is the news.

## Sources

- [ONS Private rent and house prices, UK (latest)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/latest) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS Private rent and house prices, UK: August 2026 (the dated snapshot)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/august2026) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS Price Index of Private Rents QMI](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/methodologies/priceindexofprivaterentsqmi) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS Price Index of Private Rents detailed methodology](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/methodologies/priceindexofprivaterentsdetailedmethodology) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HM Land Registry UK House Price Index (interactive)](https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [UK House Price Index browse (per-area series)](https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi/browse) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [UK House Price Index reports collection (GOV.UK)](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-house-price-index-reports) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2025 (gov.scot)](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland: 2 bedroom properties](https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2025/pages/2-bedroom-properties/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [NISRA / Land and Property Services Northern Ireland House Price Index](https://www.nisra.gov.uk/news/average-house-price-northern-ireland-rises-ps198015) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [NI Housing Executive private rental market performance](https://www.nihe.gov.uk/private-rental-ni-at-a-glance-2023) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The median published figure in the UK Rental Yield Index is 1,037.50 GBP across 10 figures from 2 sources' own pages (range 560 to 1,767 GBP), read 12 October 2026.
- 2 of the 10 named sources read in full publish a figure; 8 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
- UK Rental Yield Index, area United Kingdom: median 1,393 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- UK Rental Yield Index, area England: median 1,451 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- UK Rental Yield Index, area Northern Ireland: median 875 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- UK Rental Yield Index, area Lothian: median 1,356 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- UK Rental Yield Index, area Dumfries and Galloway: median 569 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- UK Rental Yield Index, bedrooms 1 bedroom: median 738 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- UK Rental Yield Index, bedrooms 2 bedroom: median 921 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- UK Rental Yield Index, bedrooms 3 bedroom: median 1,154 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- UK Rental Yield Index, bedrooms 4 bedroom: median 1,767 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- UK Rental Yield Index, bedrooms 1 bedroom shared: median 560 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 1,037.50 GBP across 10).

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