Buy-to-let in Basingstoke and Deane

Basingstoke and Deane in figures

Gross rental yield

5.0%

On terraced houses across Basingstoke and Deane

Entry price, across its towns

£285,000 to £335,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

-2.9%

UK House Price Index, across Basingstoke and Deane

Price move, 10 years

+25.3%

UK House Price Index, across Basingstoke and Deane

Population

194,037

Basingstoke and Deane, +6.0% growth

• Terraced houses across Basingstoke and Deane let for £1,300/mo against a median sale of £311,000 there: 5.0% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £1,309/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Basingstoke and Deane fell 2.9% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +25% over ten years (Basingstoke and Deane)
• Other service activities: 6.9% of jobs against 2.0% across Great Britain (Basingstoke and Deane)
• £18,500 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £285,000 buy-to-let
• 721 homes added across Basingstoke and Deane
• Band D £2,255 (Basingstoke and Deane)
• 0.7% long-term empty across Basingstoke and Deane
• +17% five-year forecast for South East 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 Basingstoke and Deane 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 Basingstoke and Deane moved +25.3% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.

Other service activities is 6.9% of employee jobs in Basingstoke and Deane, against 2.0% across Great Britain (2,500 jobs in 2015, 6,000 in 2024). Where one industry carries that much of a local economy, rents and prices tend to move with it. Employee jobs across Basingstoke and Deane moved +6.1% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

35% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Basingstoke's postcode districts are below band C (45,775 certificates). 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.

A buy-to-let at £285,000 pays £18,500 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

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

Towns in Basingstoke and Deane

Each yield is Basingstoke and Deane's, for the kind of home that town's prices point to, and the year's price move is measured across Basingstoke and Deane as a whole, so towns pointing to the same kind of home share a yield.

The Basingstoke and Deane report

The full report measures Basingstoke and Deane 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.

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