UKPP Rental Yield Index · East Midlands

Rental yield in Nottingham

6.42%

Average gross rental yield, August 2026 edition · ranked 5 of 294 English councils, and 1 of 35 in the East Midlands.

  • East Midlands 4.57% Nottingham is 1.85 points above the East Midlands.
  • Median English council 4.45% Nottingham is 1.97 points above the median English council.

Work out your own yield

The figures here are averages for the whole of Nottingham; your own property will differ. Enter your own price and rent — nothing is pre-filled. The same arithmetic as the full rental yield calculator.

The property

Purchase price, and the rent you charge or expect to charge.

Annual running costs

All optional, all yearly. Leave a line blank and it counts as nothing — only the lines you fill in are included.

Leave this blank for the standard net yield, which is measured on the property and ignores how it was financed. Fill it in and the second figure stops being a net yield in the usual sense: it becomes a leveraged, cash-flow view of your own borrowing, and it is not comparable with a net yield quoted anywhere else. The page relabels the result to say which of the two it has given you.

What’s behind the figure

The inputs to Nottingham’s gross rental yield
Average monthly rent (ONS)£1,014
Average sale price (HM Land Registry)£189,547
Monthly sales, latest published182

The working: £1,014 × 12 ÷ £189,547 = 6.42%. For rent by number of bedrooms, see rent in Nottingham.

Rising: the last twelve months

Twelve-month change: +0.23 points, from 6.19% in Aug 2025 to 6.42% in Aug 2026. It rose because rents grew 1.8% while prices fell 1.8%.

Every edition as a table
Nottingham gross rental yield by edition
EditionGross yield
Aug 20256.19%
Sep 20256.19%
Oct 20256.16%
Nov 20256.21%
Dec 20256.18%
Jan 20266.22%
Feb 20266.26%
Mar 20266.32%
Apr 20266.28%
May 20266.33%
Jun 20266.37%
Jul 20266.40%
Aug 20266.42%

Nearby in the East Midlands ranking

Councils ranked directly above and below Nottingham within the East Midlands. The full UKPP Rental Yield Index ranks every English council.

What this figure is, and isn’t

It is a gross yield: rent over price, before any costs. It models no voids, management, maintenance, tax or finance, and forecasts nothing.

The average rented home and the average sold home are not the same property. The index divides an area’s average rent by its average sale price, so it shows how Nottingham compares with other areas — not the return on any particular property.

The yield runs about two months behind rents, because Land Registry prices are published later than ONS rents. How the index is built →

Common questions

What is the average rental yield in Nottingham? 6.42% gross, in the August 2026 edition of the UKPP Rental Yield Index: an average monthly rent of £1,014 × 12, divided by an average sale price of £189,547. That ranks 5 of 294 English councils.

Is rental yield in Nottingham rising or falling? Twelve-month change: +0.23 points, from 6.19% in Aug 2025 to 6.42% in Aug 2026. It rose because rents grew 1.8% while prices fell 1.8%.

How does Nottingham compare with the rest of the East Midlands? Nottingham ranks 1 of 35 councils in the East Midlands. The region’s own yield is 4.57%, so Nottingham is 1.85 points above the East Midlands; the median English council is 4.45%.

Sources

Rent: ONS, Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026), Open Government Licence v3.0. Price and sales: HM Land Registry, UK House Price Index (August 2026). Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

The yield is UKPP’s own derived work, the UKPP Rental Yield Index, August 2026 edition, licensed under CC BY 4.0 — download the edition as CSV.

Related

Rent in Nottingham — by bedroom and over two years.

PRS Database checker for Nottingham — what a landlord here must register.

Nottingham in the full Rental Yield Index — every English council, ranked.

Section 24 calculator and buy-to-let deal analyser — for your own numbers after tax and finance.