# Rental yield calculator: Rent And Yield Benchmark

> The median published figure in the Rent And Yield Benchmark is 875 GBP across 9 figures from 2 sources' own pages (range 495 to 1,625 GBP), read 12 September 2026.

RentRollDesk · https://rentrolldesk.com/datasets/rent-and-yield-benchmark/ · computed 2026-10-05

**Median published figure:** 875 GBP (range 495 to 1,625 GBP; 9 sources with a figure; 2 of 15 sources read publish one).

2 of the 15 named sources read in full publish a figure; 12 publish none, read 12 September 2026.

## By region and property_size

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| region United | 1,393 GBP | 1,393 to 1,393 GBP | 1 |
| region England | 1,150.5 GBP | 850 to 1,451 GBP | 2 |
| region Northern | 875 GBP | 875 to 875 GBP | 1 |
| region London | 1,625 GBP | 1,625 to 1,625 GBP | 1 |
| region North | 550 GBP | 550 to 550 GBP | 1 |
| property_size four | 1,550 GBP | 1,550 to 1,550 GBP | 1 |
| property_size single | 495 GBP | 495 to 495 GBP | 1 |
| property_size studio | 671 GBP | 671 to 671 GBP | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [ONS, private rental market summary statistics in England](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/privaterentalmarketsummarystatisticsinengland/latest) | 1,625 GBP | London | 2026-09-12 |
| [ONS, private rental market summary statistics in England](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/privaterentalmarketsummarystatisticsinengland/latest) | 1,550 GBP | four | 2026-09-12 |
| [ons.gov.uk](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/latest) | 1,451 GBP | England | 2026-09-12 |
| [ons.gov.uk](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/latest) | 1,393 GBP | United | 2026-09-12 |
| [ons.gov.uk](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/latest) | 875 GBP | Northern | 2026-09-12 |
| [ONS, private rental market summary statistics in England](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/privaterentalmarketsummarystatisticsinengland/latest) | 850 GBP | England | 2026-09-12 |
| [ONS, private rental market summary statistics in England](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/privaterentalmarketsummarystatisticsinengland/latest) | 671 GBP | studio | 2026-09-12 |
| [ONS, private rental market summary statistics in England](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/privaterentalmarketsummarystatisticsinengland/latest) | 550 GBP | North | 2026-09-12 |
| [ONS, private rental market summary statistics in England](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/privaterentalmarketsummarystatisticsinengland/latest) | 495 GBP | single | 2026-09-12 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (9)

- [ONS, private rental market summary statistics in England](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/privaterentalmarketsummarystatisticsinengland/latest), read 2026-09-12: "London had the highest median monthly rent at £1,625; this is nearly double the median monthly rent for England."
- [ONS, private rental market summary statistics in England](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/privaterentalmarketsummarystatisticsinengland/latest), read 2026-09-12: "The property size with the highest median monthly rent was for properties with four or more bedrooms (£1,550)."
- [ons.gov.uk](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/latest), read 2026-09-12: "Average rents increased to £1,451 (3.8%) in England, £843 (4.5%) in Wales, and £1,016 (1.7%) in Scotland, in the 12 months to July 2026."
- [ons.gov.uk](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/latest), read 2026-09-12: "Average UK monthly private rent increased by 3.7%, to £1,393, in the 12 months to July 2026 (provisional estimate); this annual growth rate is up from 3.3% in the 12 months to June 2026."
- [ons.gov.uk](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/latest), read 2026-09-12: "In Northern Ireland, average rents increased to £875 (2.3%), in the 12 months to May 2026."
- [ONS, private rental market summary statistics in England](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/privaterentalmarketsummarystatisticsinengland/latest), read 2026-09-12: "The median monthly rent was £850 for England, recorded between October 2022 and September 2023; this is the highest ever recorded."
- [ONS, private rental market summary statistics in England](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/privaterentalmarketsummarystatisticsinengland/latest), read 2026-09-12: "The difference in median monthly rents between studios (£671) and single rooms (£495) could have been driven by high volumes of data in the sample of studios located in London and the South East (representing just under half of the sample size)."
- [ONS, private rental market summary statistics in England](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/privaterentalmarketsummarystatisticsinengland/latest), read 2026-09-12: "The median monthly rent for the North East was £550; this is the lowest of all regions."
- [ONS, private rental market summary statistics in England](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/privaterentalmarketsummarystatisticsinengland/latest), read 2026-09-12: "Single rooms had the lowest median monthly rent of all property sizes, at £495."

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [ONS, housing statistics landing page](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [HM Land Registry, UK House Price Index](https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [GOV.UK, UK House Price Index reports collection](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-house-price-index-reports), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [GOV.UK, UK House Price Index data downloads](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/uk-house-price-index-data-downloads-july-2025), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [GOV.UK, private rental market statistics collection](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/private-rental-market-statistics), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Scottish Government, housing statistics](https://www.gov.scot/collections/housing-statistics/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Welsh Government, private sector rents](https://www.gov.wales/private-sector-rents), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Department of Finance NI, Northern Ireland House Price Index](https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/articles/northern-ireland-house-price-index), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [GOV.UK, English Housing Survey](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [US Census Bureau, American Housing Survey](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs.html), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [US Census Bureau, data.census.gov](https://data.census.gov/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [HUD User, Fair Market Rents](https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr.html), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 15 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 12 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 22 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per local authority per month: the authority's rent level joined to the same area's average price, giving the GROSS YIELD by area - which neither ONS nor HM Land Registry publishes, because one publishes rents and the other publishes prices and nobody divides them - plus the net yield after the agent fee from the fee index and the statutory costs from the tax rules, the rank and spread of yields across the UK, the daily rate (monthly rent x 12 / 365) that a part-month charge is computed from, and changed-since each monthly release.

## Sources

- [ONS, private rent and house prices UK (latest bulletin)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/latest) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS, housing statistics landing page](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS, private rental market summary statistics in England](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/privaterentalmarketsummarystatisticsinengland/latest) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HM Land Registry, UK House Price Index](https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK, UK House Price Index reports collection](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-house-price-index-reports) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK, UK House Price Index data downloads](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/uk-house-price-index-data-downloads-july-2025) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK, private rental market statistics collection](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/private-rental-market-statistics) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Scottish Government, housing statistics](https://www.gov.scot/collections/housing-statistics/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Welsh Government, private sector rents](https://www.gov.wales/private-sector-rents) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Department of Finance NI, Northern Ireland House Price Index](https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/articles/northern-ireland-house-price-index) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK, English Housing Survey](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US Census Bureau, American Housing Survey](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US Census Bureau, data.census.gov](https://data.census.gov/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HUD User, Fair Market Rents](https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ons.gov.uk](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/latest) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The median published figure in the Rent And Yield Benchmark is 875 GBP across 9 figures from 2 sources' own pages (range 495 to 1,625 GBP), read 12 September 2026.
- 2 of the 15 named sources read in full publish a figure; 12 publish none, read 12 September 2026.
- Rent And Yield Benchmark, region United: median 1,393 GBP across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
- Rent And Yield Benchmark, region England: median 1,150.50 GBP across 2 sources, read 12 September 2026.
- Rent And Yield Benchmark, region Northern: median 875 GBP across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
- Rent And Yield Benchmark, region London: median 1,625 GBP across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
- Rent And Yield Benchmark, region North: median 550 GBP across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
- Rent And Yield Benchmark, property_size four: median 1,550 GBP across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
- Rent And Yield Benchmark, property_size single: median 495 GBP across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
- Rent And Yield Benchmark, property_size studio: median 671 GBP across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.

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