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Buy-to-let yield calculator

Gross and net yield on total cash in — price, stamp duty, legals and refurbishment — not on the purchase price alone.

Your numbers

Scotland and Wales levy different taxes, and we do not guess at them.

Nothing here is sent anywhere. The whole calculation runs in this browser, on the same engine the app uses.

Gross yield
7.8%

7.8% gross is ordinary. It works for a long-term holder but will not excite a yield buyer.

Monthly rentYOU
£950
Annual rentEST
£11,400
Total cash inEST
Price, stamp duty, legals and refurbishment.
£145,500
Gross yieldEST
7.8%
Net income after costsEST
£8,550
Net yieldEST
5.9%
Price for an 8% gross yieldEST
£127,000
Loan the rent supportsEST
125% coverage at 5.50% stressed
£165,818
Most a lender would advanceEST
Capped at 75.0% loan to value, not by the rent
£97,500
Deposit neededEST
Before stamp duty, legals and refurbishment.
£32,500
What this assumes
  • Gross yield is annual rent over total cash in, before management, voids and maintenance.
  • Net figures assume 25% of rent goes on running costs — agent, voids, repairs, insurance.
  • Yield is unleveraged. The borrowing line below is what a lender would advance, not a repayment plan.

This is one sum out of a whole deal

Inside the app the same engines run against real HM Land Registry sold prices, rank your buyers against the deal, and tell you what to do next — with the workings attached to every figure, exactly as they are here.

The demo runs on invented deals and real postcodes. No account, nothing saved.

Questions

Why is your yield lower than the one I saw elsewhere?

Because most yield calculators divide rent by the purchase price. This divides by everything you actually spent to own it, including stamp duty and refurbishment. It is a smaller number and a truer one.

Is there a mortgage in this?

No. This is the unleveraged yield, which is the figure that tells you whether the asset works. Leverage changes your return, not the property's.

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