Buy-to-let in Hastings

Hastings in figures

Gross rental yield

4.6%

On terraced houses across Hastings

Entry price, across its towns

£240,500 to £250,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

-2.9%

UK House Price Index, across Hastings

Price move, 10 years

+31.3%

11.0% below the year to June 2023, across Hastings

Population

90,855

Hastings, -0.3% growth

• Terraced houses across Hastings let for £1,040/mo against a median sale of £270,000 there: 4.6% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £1,007/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices here moved -2.9% over the last year and +31.3% over ten years on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, and sit 11.0% below their highest twelve months (to June 2023).

• Prices +31% over ten years, 11% below the year to June 2023
• £15,000 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £250,000 buy-to-let
• 1 regeneration award
• 404 homes added
• Band D £2,677
• 2.1% 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 Hastings 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 Hastings moved +31.3% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and the latest year's average is 11.0% below its highest, the year to June 2023.

Employee jobs across Hastings moved +6.2% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

58% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Hastings's postcode districts are below band C (18,839 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 £250,000 pays £15,000 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 Hastings, and Clarity does not rank on it.

Towns in Hastings

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

The Hastings report

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

Read a full Liverpool report, free to see everything a report contains.

Compare it with everywhere else

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