Buy-to-let in Bath and North East Somerset

Bath and North East Somerset in figures

Gross rental yield

6.0% to 6.2%

By kind of home, across Bath and North East Somerset

Entry price, across its towns

£276,500 to £375,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+1.3%

UK House Price Index, across Bath and North East Somerset

Price move, 10 years

+36.1%

UK House Price Index, across Bath and North East Somerset

Population

200,898

Bath and North East Somerset, +4.7% growth

• Semi-detached houses across Bath and North East Somerset let for £2,000/mo against a median sale of £390,000 there: 6.2% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £1,885/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Bath and North East Somerset rose 1.3% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +36% over ten years (Bath and North East Somerset)
• £27,500 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £375,000 buy-to-let
• 476 homes added across Bath and North East Somerset
• Band D £2,383 (Bath and North East Somerset)
• 1.1% long-term empty across Bath and North East Somerset
• +21% five-year forecast for South West 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 Bath and North East Somerset 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 Bath and North East Somerset moved +36.1% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.

Employee jobs across Bath and North East Somerset moved +16.3% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

55% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Bath's postcode districts are below band C (43,209 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 £375,000 pays £27,500 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

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

Towns in Bath and North East Somerset

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

The Bath and North East Somerset report

The full report measures Bath and North East Somerset 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 Bath and North East Somerset report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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Compare it with everywhere else

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