Rental yields top 6%

The latest buy-to-let yield revealed by BM Solutions show that the highest rental yields were in the North (7.0%), North West, Yorkshire and the Humber (both 6.3%), Wales (6.0%), West Midlands and the East Midlands (both 5.9%).

Greater London (4.8%), South West (5.0%), South East (5.2%) and East Anglia (5.3%) all registered yields below the UK average. Rental yields were marginally lower in 2011 at 6.1% than in 2010, when they stood at 6.2%.

Rental yields are notoriously difficult to measure accurately on buy-to-let property because of the complexity of measuring buy-to-let property capital values and rents.

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