Buy-to-let in Gosport
Yields, prices, demand and local risks for Gosport, covering Gosport, Lee-On-The-Solent.
Gosport in figures
- Gross rental yield
- 5.2% to 5.7%
- By kind of home, across Gosport
- Entry price, across its towns
- £230,000 to £291,000
- The cheapest postcode district's median sale
- Price move, 12 months
- +1.8%
- UK House Price Index, across Gosport
- Price move, 10 years
- +39.0%
- UK House Price Index, across Gosport
- Population
- 82,618
- Gosport, +0.0% growth
- Terraced houses across Gosport let for £1,170/mo against a median sale of £245,000 there: 5.7% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
- ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £1,169/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
- Prices here rose 1.8% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.
- Prices +39% over ten years
- £13,600 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £230,000 buy-to-let
- 1 regeneration award
- 120 homes added
- Band D £2,344
- 0.8% 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 Gosport 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 Gosport moved +39.0% over ten years on the UK House Price Index.
Employee jobs across Gosport moved −4.8% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).
46% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Gosport's postcode districts are below band C (27,966 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 £230,000 pays £13,600 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 Gosport, and Clarity does not rank on it.
Towns in Gosport
| Town | Entry price | Gross yield | Tenant demand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gosport | £230,000 | 5.7%terraced houses | 1.3/10 |
| Lee-On-The-Solent | £291,000 | 5.2%semi-detached houses | 1.7/10 |
Each yield is Gosport's, for the kind of home that town's prices point to, and the year's price move is measured across Gosport as a whole, so towns pointing to the same kind of home share a yield.
The Gosport report
The full report measures Gosport 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 Gosport report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.
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Compare it with everywhere else
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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