Buy-to-let in Blaenau Gwent

Blaenau Gwent in figures

Gross rental yield

6.2%

On terraced houses across Blaenau Gwent

Entry price, across its towns

£125,500 to £139,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+5.7%

UK House Price Index, across Blaenau Gwent

Price move, 10 years

+77.0%

UK House Price Index, across Blaenau Gwent

Population

67,593

Blaenau Gwent, +0.6% growth

• Terraced houses across Blaenau Gwent let for £650/mo against a median sale of £125,000 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 £681/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Blaenau Gwent rose 5.7% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +77% over ten years (Blaenau Gwent)
• Manufacturing: 21.1% of jobs against 7.1% across Great Britain (Blaenau Gwent)
• £6,275 Land Transaction Tax at Wales's higher rates on a £125,500 buy-to-let
• 1 regeneration award (Blaenau Gwent)
• Band D £2,531 (Blaenau Gwent)
• +28% five-year forecast for Wales 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 Blaenau Gwent 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 Blaenau Gwent moved +77.0% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.

Manufacturing is 21.1% of employee jobs in Blaenau Gwent, against 7.1% across Great Britain (4,500 jobs in 2015, 4,000 in 2024). Where one industry carries that much of a local economy, rents and prices tend to move with it. Employee jobs across Blaenau Gwent moved +0.0% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

67% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Abertillery's postcode districts are below band C (6,844 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.

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

Towns in Blaenau Gwent

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

The Blaenau Gwent report

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

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Compare it with everywhere else

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