Buy-to-let in Mid Suffolk

Mid Suffolk in figures

Gross rental yield

4.9% to 5.3%

By kind of home, across Mid Suffolk

Entry price, across its towns

£236,000 to £245,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+3.5%

UK House Price Index, across Mid Suffolk

Price move, 10 years

+28.5%

UK House Price Index, across Mid Suffolk

Population

113,047

Mid Suffolk, +11.3% growth

• Terraced houses across Mid Suffolk let for £990/mo against a median sale of £225,000 there: 5.3% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £1,005/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Mid Suffolk rose 3.5% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +29% over ten years (Mid Suffolk)
• Agriculture, forestry and fishing: 5.5% of jobs against 1.4% across Great Britain (Mid Suffolk)
• £14,020 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £236,000 buy-to-let
• 1,336 homes added across Mid Suffolk
• Band D £2,317 (Mid Suffolk)
• 1.0% long-term empty across Mid Suffolk
• +19% five-year forecast for East of England 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 Mid Suffolk 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 Mid Suffolk moved +28.5% over ten years on the UK House Price Index.

Agriculture, forestry and fishing is 5.5% of employee jobs in Mid Suffolk, against 1.4% across Great Britain (2,250 jobs in 2015, 2,250 in 2024). Where one industry carries that much of a local economy, rents and prices tend to move with it. Employee jobs across Mid Suffolk moved +7.9% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

68% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Eye's postcode districts are below band C (6,247 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 £236,000 pays £14,020 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

The five-year forecast quoted above (Savills, East of England) is a regional figure for East of England as a whole, not a forecast for Mid Suffolk, and Clarity does not rank on it.

Towns in Mid Suffolk

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

The Mid Suffolk report

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

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Compare it with everywhere else

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