UK rental yield map
- Estimated monthly rent for the target at the average rate
- 1,198
- Comparable one, rent per square foot a month
- £1.60
- Comparable two, rent per square foot a month
- £1.54
Every figure here comes from the figures you enter and the method stated beside it: your comparables' rents and floor areas, your target's size and asking price. Where a guide names a published figure it names the source and the date it was read. This site publishes no valuation, no mortgage advice and no opinion on what to bid: what a property is worth is your surveyor's answer, what you can borrow is your broker's, and the public data cited on each guide is the starting point, not the ruling.
A UK rental yield map is the first thing a buy-to-let investor opens and the last thing they should trust on its own: a map coloured by the gross yield of each postcode district, worked from the average advertised rent and the average sold price, which says where the yields are high and nothing about whether the properties behind the average are the ones the investor would buy. This page sets out what a yield map shows and hides, how an area figure is read against a specific property with the comps in its street, and what the deal file has to keep so that the area an investor chose in March and the deal they appraised in June are read against the same figures.
Open the Rent comparables sheet Free to use. No account, no card, no trial clock.
Read the map for the area, never for the property
A district's yield is an average of every let against every sale, and the average is pulled by student houses, flats above shops and the one street nobody wants. It tells an investor which districts to look at and which to skip, and that is all. The rent comparables sheet on this site does the property-level reading the map cannot: three lets in the same street, per square foot, against the target's own size and asking price.
File the area figures the deal was read against, with the date
The map changes as rents and prices move, so a deal appraised against this quarter's figures is a different deal next quarter. Filing the area's average rent, average price and yield against the deal, with the date they were read, is what lets the investor see later whether the deal or the area moved. Yieldzo Pro keeps the area figures with the deal and the comps.
Keep the deal file so the next deal in the area starts from the last
An investor who works one or two areas sees the same streets, the same agents and sometimes the same houses again. A deal file that holds every property looked at with its comps, its area figures, its appraisal and its offer means the second viewing of a house is priced from the first, and the fourth deal in a postcode inherits the comps from the third. That is the record the paid plan keeps and exports.
What a buy-to-let investor asks before running the UK rental yield map
Where does the data behind a UK rental yield map come from?
Advertised rents from the portals and sold prices from the Land Registry, averaged by postcode district, on most platforms; the Office for National Statistics publishes its own private rent and house price series by local authority. Every map is only as current as its last refresh, which is why the date matters.
Is a high-yield district the best place to buy?
Not on its own. A high average yield usually means low prices and a tenant base that pays late, moves often or leaves voids, and the map cannot show that. Read the district off the map, then read the street off the comps and the property off its own figures.
Does Yieldzo publish its own yield map?
No. The money page here explains how to read one and what to file from it; the record keeps the area figures you read, with their source and date, against each deal. This site publishes no area league table it did not measure.
Will it hold your deal file, beyond the UK rental yield map?
Tell us how you research a deal today, which areas you buy in, where your comps come from, and what keeps going wrong between the portal and the offer.