Buy-to-let in Hammersmith and Fulham

Hammersmith and Fulham in figures

Gross rental yield

4.9%

On flats across Hammersmith and Fulham

Entry price

£600,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

-12.6%

UK House Price Index, across Hammersmith and Fulham

Price move, 10 years

-10.8%

10.6% below the year to December 2023, across Hammersmith and Fulham

Homes below EPC band C

44%

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

Population

190,216

Hammersmith and Fulham, +2.0% growth

• Flats across Hammersmith and Fulham let for £2,350/mo against a median sale of £580,000 there: 4.9% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £2,825/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices here moved -12.6% over the last year and -10.8% over ten years on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, and sit 10.6% below their highest twelve months (to December 2023): part of the yield here is prices that fell, not rents that rose.

• Prices −11% over ten years, 11% below the year to December 2023
• Information and communication: 15.6% of jobs against 4.4% across Great Britain
• 44% of EPCs below band C
• £50,000 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £600,000 buy-to-let
• Regeneration zone
• 1,459 homes added
• 37% private rented (2021 census)
• 87% gigabit broadband
• 100% of 28 graded schools good or better
• Band D £1,520
• 0.8% 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 Hammersmith and Fulham 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 Hammersmith and Fulham moved −10.8% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and the latest year's average is 10.6% below its highest, the year to December 2023. A gross yield is rent over price, so part of the 4.9% here comes from prices that fell rather than rents that rose. Clarity's ranking takes the annualised fall, 1.1 points a year, off the yield before scoring it.

Information and communication is 15.6% of employee jobs in Hammersmith and Fulham, against 4.4% across Great Britain (18,000 jobs in 2015, 23,000 in 2024). Where one industry carries that much of a local economy, rents and prices tend to move with it. Employee jobs across Hammersmith and Fulham moved +6.5% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

44% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Hammersmith and Fulham's postcode districts are below band C (87,880 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 £600,000 pays £50,000 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 Hammersmith and Fulham, and Clarity does not rank on it.

The Hammersmith and Fulham report

The full report measures Hammersmith and Fulham 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 Hammersmith and Fulham report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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