Buy-to-let in Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire in figures

Gross rental yield

7.2%

On terraced houses across Aberdeenshire

Entry price

£137,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

-0.1%

UK House Price Index, across Aberdeenshire

Price move, 10 years

-2.2%

UK House Price Index, across Aberdeenshire

Homes below EPC band C

40%

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

Population

264,640

Aberdeenshire, +1.2% growth

• Terraced houses across Aberdeenshire let for GBP 847/mo against a median sale of GBP 141,750 there: 7.2% gross before costs, on ONS rents and Registers of Scotland's 2024 sold prices for the whole council area. The entry price, GBP 137,000, is the council's 2025 lower quartile.
• The council area's median sale was GBP 205,000 across 4,461 sales in 2025, the last complete calendar year Registers of Scotland have published.
• Agriculture, forestry and fishing is 10.0% of employee jobs in Aberdeenshire, against 1.4% across Great Britain; 10,000 jobs in 2015 and 11,000 in 2024 (ONS BRES).

• Prices −2% over ten years
• Agriculture, forestry and fishing: 10.0% of jobs against 1.4% across Great Britain
• Employee jobs −5% 2015 to 2024
• 40% of EPCs below band C
• 60% of private rentals below band C
• £10,960 LBTT, with the 8% Additional Dwelling Supplement, on a £137,000 buy-to-let
• 2 regeneration awards
• 43% 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 Aberdeenshire 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 Aberdeenshire moved −2.2% over ten years on the UK House Price Index. A gross yield is rent over price, so part of the 7.2% here comes from prices that fell rather than rents that rose. Clarity's ranking takes the annualised fall, 0.2 points a year, off the yield before scoring it.

Agriculture, forestry and fishing is 10.0% of employee jobs in Aberdeenshire, against 1.4% across Great Britain (10,000 jobs in 2015, 11,000 in 2024). Where one industry carries that much of a local economy, rents and prices tend to move with it. Employee jobs across Aberdeenshire moved −5.2% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

40% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Aberdeenshire's postcode districts are below band C (75,332 certificates), and 60% 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 Aberdeenshire, and Clarity does not rank on it.

The Aberdeenshire report

The full report measures Aberdeenshire 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 Aberdeenshire report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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Compare it with everywhere else

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