Buy-to-let in Aberdeen City

Aberdeen City in figures

Gross rental yield

8.5%

On flats across Aberdeen

Entry price

£80,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

-3.7%

UK House Price Index, across Aberdeen

Price move, 10 years

-30.3%

35.7% below the year to May 2015, across Aberdeen

Homes below EPC band C

37%

Of lodged certificates, a proxy for the condition of the stock

Population

230,180

Aberdeen, +3.4% growth

• Flats across Aberdeen let for GBP 672/mo against a median sale of GBP 95,000 there: 8.5% gross before costs, on ONS rents and Registers of Scotland's 2024 sold prices for the whole council area. The entry price, GBP 80,000, is the council's 2025 lower quartile.
• Prices across Aberdeen moved -3.7% over the last year and -30.3% over ten years on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, and sit 35.7% below their highest twelve months (to May 2015): part of the yield here is prices that fell, not rents that rose.
• Mining and quarrying is 12.5% of employee jobs in Aberdeen, against 0.14% across Great Britain; 26,000 jobs in 2015 and 20,000 in 2024 (ONS BRES).

• Prices −30% over ten years, 36% below the year to May 2015 (Aberdeen)
• Mining and quarrying: 12.5% of jobs against 0.14% across Great Britain (Aberdeen)
• Employee jobs −14% 2015 to 2024 (Aberdeen)
• 37% of EPCs below band C
• 42% of private rentals below band C
• £6,400 LBTT, with the 8% Additional Dwelling Supplement, on an £80,000 buy-to-let
• 1 regeneration award (Aberdeen)
• 88% gigabit broadband
• +28% five-year forecast for Scotland as a whole (Savills), not this area

These figures are from Clarity's monthly ranking dataset, one method across every place so they compare. The Aberdeen City report measures the area in more depth over its own twelve months, so its figures are the ones to quote.

What sits behind the figures

Prices across Aberdeen moved −30.3% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and the latest year's average is 35.7% below its highest, the year to May 2015. A gross yield is rent over price, so part of the 8.5% here comes from prices that fell rather than rents that rose. Clarity's ranking takes the annualised fall, 3.5 points a year, off the yield before scoring it.

Mining and quarrying is 12.5% of employee jobs in Aberdeen, against 0.14% across Great Britain (26,000 jobs in 2015, 20,000 in 2024). Where one industry carries that much of a local economy, rents and prices tend to move with it. Employee jobs across Aberdeen moved −13.5% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

37% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Aberdeen's postcode districts are below band C (57,978 certificates), and 42% of privately rented homes. Clarity measures areas rather than individual homes, so this is the share of the local stock likely to need energy-efficiency work before it meets a band C standard, not a survey of any one property.

The five-year forecast quoted above (Savills, Scotland) is a regional figure for Scotland as a whole, not a forecast for Aberdeen, and Clarity does not rank on it.

The Aberdeen City report

The full report measures Aberdeen City from its own sales: sold prices and rents for each type of home, the year's price move, crime per resident and worker, flood risk, planning designations, housing delivery and regeneration funding, with a worked buy-to-let deal on your own budget. This edition was built in October 2026.

Read the cover of the Aberdeen City report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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Compare it with everywhere else

The investment map ranks Aberdeen City against every other place we cover, on your own budget and strategy. Questions about the figures or about us are answered here.