Buy-to-let in Dover
Yields, prices, demand and local risks for Dover, covering Deal, Dover, Sandwich.
Dover in figures
- Gross rental yield
- 4.6% to 5.0%
- By kind of home, across Dover
- Entry price, across its towns
- £208,000 to £305,000
- The cheapest postcode district's median sale
- Price move, 12 months
- +1.2%
- UK House Price Index, across Dover
- Price move, 10 years
- +25.9%
- 10.0% below the year to July 2023, across Dover
- Population
- 121,055
- Dover, +4.2% growth
- Terraced houses across Dover let for £1,030/mo against a median sale of £247,500 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 £1,021/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
- Prices here moved +1.2% over the last year and +25.9% over ten years on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, and sit 10.0% below their highest twelve months (to July 2023).
- Prices +26% over ten years, 10% below the year to July 2023
- £12,060 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £208,000 buy-to-let
- 1 regeneration award
- 633 homes added
- Band D £2,462
- 1.5% long-term empty
- +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 Dover 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 Dover moved +25.9% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and the latest year's average is 10.0% below its highest, the year to July 2023.
Employee jobs across Dover moved +2.7% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).
51% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Dover's postcode districts are below band C (20,381 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 £208,000 pays £12,060 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 Dover, and Clarity does not rank on it.
Towns in Dover
| Town | Entry price | Gross yield | Tenant demand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deal | £280,000 | 4.6%semi-detached houses | 3.5/10 |
| Dover | £208,000 | 5.0%terraced houses | 3.1/10 |
| Sandwich | £305,000 | 4.6%semi-detached houses | 3.8/10 |
Each yield is Dover's, for the kind of home that town's prices point to, and the year's price move is measured across Dover as a whole, so towns pointing to the same kind of home share a yield.
The Dover report
The full report measures Dover 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 Dover report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.
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Sources and further reading
- HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index
- HM Land Registry: Price Paid Data (England and Wales)
- Registers of Scotland: property market statistics (Scotland)
- ONS: Price Index of Private Rents
- ONS: Population estimates
- ONS: Business Register and Employment Survey
- MHCLG: Energy Performance of Buildings Data (England and Wales)
- HMRC: Stamp Duty Land Tax