Where are the highest rental yields in the South East?

Portsmouth has the highest average gross rental yield in the South East at 6.5%, from an average price of £251,220 and rent of £1,368 a month. It ranks 3 of 316 areas across England and Wales.

What is a typical rental yield in the South East?

The median gross yield across the 64 council areas in the South East is 4.4%, compared with 4.4% across England and Wales.

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Rental yields in the South East

The South East has 64 council areas and a typical gross rental yield of 4.4%, level with the 4.4% median across England and Wales. Yields run from 3.0% in Elmbridge to 6.5% in Portsmouth. The typical area here has an average price of £382,549 and an average rent of £1,360 a month.

Highest (Portsmouth)

6.5%

Typical (median)

4.4%

Lowest (Elmbridge)

3.0%

All 64 areas in the South East, ranked

AreaYieldAvg price

1.Portsmouth6.5%£251,220 2.Southampton6.4%£235,977 3.Gosport5.8%£240,696 4.Slough5.6%£335,759 5.Eastbourne5.5%£254,636 6.Reading5.4%£349,550 7.Dartford5.4%£347,773 8.Crawley5.4%£332,384 9.Brighton and Hove5.3%£408,948 10.Worthing5.2%£297,200 11.Hastings5.1%£238,757 12.Rushmoor5.1%£326,771 13.Medway5.0%£298,547 14.Thanet5.0%£269,708 15.Oxford5.0%£471,667 16.Milton Keynes4.9%£330,419 17.Eastleigh4.7%£310,283 18.Folkestone and Hythe4.7%£303,296 19.Isle of Wight4.6%£245,900 20.Canterbury4.6%£337,454 21.Gravesham4.6%£344,923 22.Spelthorne4.6%£439,609 23.Arun4.6%£321,460 24.Swale4.5%£298,985 25.Adur4.5%£380,120 26.Bracknell Forest4.4%£395,413 27.Havant4.4%£315,820 28.Dover4.4%£277,750 29.Maidstone4.4%£352,722 30.Tonbridge and Malling4.4%£407,880 31.Cherwell4.4%£356,935 32.Woking4.4%£439,916 33.Lewes4.3%£368,408 34.Ashford4.3%£347,562 35.Basingstoke and Deane4.2%£370,223 36.Fareham4.2%£333,599 37.Rother4.1%£337,816 38.Reigate and Banstead4.1%£480,824 39.Tandridge4.1%£482,599 40.West Berkshire4.0%£403,682 41.Test Valley4.0%£368,131 42.Sevenoaks4.0%£538,714 43.Tunbridge Wells4.0%£456,227 44.Runnymede4.0%£477,182 45.Horsham4.0%£441,654 46.Mid Sussex4.0%£430,777 47.Wealden3.9%£391,211 48.New Forest3.9%£384,977 49.Winchester3.9%£463,025 50.Vale of White Horse3.9%£413,773 51.Guildford3.9%£532,917 52.Surrey Heath3.9%£457,988 53.Windsor and Maidenhead3.8%£575,036 54.Buckinghamshire3.7%£479,736 55.West Oxfordshire3.7%£418,586 56.Chichester3.7%£432,078 57.Epsom and Ewell3.6%£568,214 58.Wokingham3.5%£496,537 59.Hart3.5%£481,051 60.South Oxfordshire3.5%£476,026 61.East Hampshire3.4%£440,541 62.Mole Valley3.3%£555,858 63.Waverley3.2%£553,429 64.Elmbridge3.0%£748,080

Gross yield = annual rent divided by average price. Tap any area for prices, rents by bedroom count, council tax, tenure and Article 4 data.

8 councils in the South East have Article 4 areas restricting HMO conversions in the national planning dataset: Southampton, Dartford, Crawley, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Canterbury, Basingstoke and Deane, Rother. Inside those areas, turning a family home into a small HMO needs full planning permission. See the Article 4 report.

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Average price: HM Land Registry UK HPI (July 2026). Average rent: ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026). Regions: ONS. Local-authority averages across all property types, indicative only. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Not investment advice.