Average rents and gross yields for every English local authority, and plain‑English guides to the Renters’ Rights Act, Making Tax Digital, EPC C and the PRS Database. Sourced to ONS, HM Land Registry and GOV.UK — free, no paywall.
Listings-based tools calculate yields from asking prices — the number a seller wants, not the number the market paid. We use the official record: registered transactions and the national rent index. It’s less flattering and considerably more useful.
See the methodologyYour region sets what your property is worth, what a lender will lend against it, and the price side of every yield on this site. Here is how the regions actually differ — registered transactions, not asking prices.
London: last on growth, first on price.
Every headline figure, dated and attributed, with copy‑paste citations and a full CSV — see the source data.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The ONS private rent index for August 2026 shows the UK average monthly rent at £1,400, up 3.814671% on the year. If your property is sitting below its local market rate, that gap is income you are leaving on the table — and the ONS figure is the evidence that supports a Section 13 rent increase notice. Meanwhile the Bank Rate stands at 3.75% as of 17 September 2026, and the Bank of England monthly average two-year fixed rate for August 2026 was 4.92%. If your current mortgage deal is expiring this year, those are the numbers your next payment will be built on.
Four dated compliance obligations now bind every private landlord in England. Section 21 is already gone since 1 May 2026. The Private Rented Sector database is expected to open for registration in late 2026, with civil penalties of up to £7,000 for non-registration. Making Tax Digital for Income Tax is live for landlords earning above £50,000, and the EPC C standard — with a confirmed £10,000 spending cap — applies to all tenancies by 2030. This edition sets out what each one requires and when.
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