Buy-to-let in New Forest

New Forest in figures

Gross rental yield

4.5% to 5.2%

By kind of home, across New Forest

Entry price, across its towns

£270,000 to £520,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+1.4%

UK House Price Index, across New Forest

Price move, 10 years

+22.5%

7.1% below the year to February 2023, across New Forest

Population

175,930

New Forest, +0.0% growth

• Semi-detached houses across New Forest let for £1,340/mo against a median sale of £355,000 there: 4.5% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £1,244/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across New Forest rose 1.4% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +23% over ten years, 7% below the year to February 2023 (New Forest)
• £42,000 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £520,000 buy-to-let
• 214 homes added across New Forest
• Band D £2,420 (New Forest)
• 1.0% long-term empty across New Forest
• +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 New Forest 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 New Forest moved +22.5% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and the latest year's average is 7.1% below its highest, the year to February 2023.

Employee jobs across New Forest moved −1.4% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

66% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Brockenhurst's postcode districts are below band C (1,779 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 £520,000 pays £42,000 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 New Forest, and Clarity does not rank on it.

Towns in New Forest

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

The New Forest report

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

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Compare it with everywhere else

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