Buy-to-let in Malvern Hills

Malvern Hills in figures

Gross rental yield

4.6% to 4.9%

By kind of home, across Malvern Hills

Entry price, across its towns

£215,000 to £260,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+6.2%

UK House Price Index, across Malvern Hills

Price move, 10 years

+41.3%

UK House Price Index, across Malvern Hills

Population

84,380

Malvern Hills, +7.8% growth

• Terraced houses across Malvern Hills let for £920/mo against a median sale of £225,000 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 £946/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Malvern Hills rose 6.2% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +41% over ten years (Malvern Hills)
• Agriculture, forestry and fishing: 6.2% of jobs against 1.4% across Great Britain (Malvern Hills)
• £16,000 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £260,000 buy-to-let
• 1 regeneration award (Malvern Hills)
• 416 homes added across Malvern Hills
• Band D £2,451 (Malvern Hills)
• 1.5% long-term empty across Malvern Hills
• +25% five-year forecast for West Midlands 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 Malvern Hills 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 Malvern Hills moved +41.3% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.

Agriculture, forestry and fishing is 6.2% of employee jobs in Malvern Hills, against 1.4% across Great Britain (2,250 jobs in 2015, 2,000 in 2024). Where one industry carries that much of a local economy, rents and prices tend to move with it. Employee jobs across Malvern Hills moved +10.3% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

53% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Malvern's postcode districts are below band C (16,148 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 £260,000 pays £16,000 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

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

Towns in Malvern Hills

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

The Malvern Hills report

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

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Compare it with everywhere else

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