Buy-to-let in Hackney

Hackney in figures

Gross rental yield

5.5%

On flats across Hackney

Entry price

£539,500

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

-0.2%

UK House Price Index, across Hackney

Price move, 10 years

+13.7%

UK House Price Index, across Hackney

Homes below EPC band C

40%

Of lodged certificates, a proxy for the condition of the stock

Population

266,241

Hackney, +0.9% growth

• Flats across Hackney let for £2,360/mo against a median sale of £518,500 there: 5.5% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £2,658/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices here fell 0.2% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +14% over ten years
• Information and communication: 15.6% of jobs against 4.4% across Great Britain
• 40% of EPCs below band C
• £43,950 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £539,500 buy-to-let
• 1 regeneration award
• 772 homes added
• 33% private rented (2021 census)
• 91% gigabit broadband
• 98% of 41 graded schools good or better
• Band D £2,060
• 1.0% long-term empty
• +14% five-year forecast for London 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 Hackney 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 Hackney moved +13.7% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.

Information and communication is 15.6% of employee jobs in Hackney, against 4.4% across Great Britain (12,000 jobs in 2015, 27,000 in 2024). Where one industry carries that much of a local economy, rents and prices tend to move with it. Employee jobs across Hackney moved +53.1% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

40% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Hackney's postcode districts are below band C (98,933 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 £539,500 pays £43,950 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

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

The Hackney report

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

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Compare it with everywhere else

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