Buy-to-let in North West Leicestershire

North West Leicestershire in figures

Gross rental yield

4.8% to 5.7%

By kind of home, across North West Leicestershire

Entry price, across its towns

£210,000 to £241,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+5.9%

UK House Price Index, across North West Leicestershire

Price move, 10 years

+48.4%

UK House Price Index, across North West Leicestershire

Population

113,263

North West Leicestershire, +9.6% growth

• Semi-detached houses across North West Leicestershire let for £960/mo against a median sale of £238,000 there: 4.8% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £914/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across North West Leicestershire rose 5.9% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +48% over ten years (North West Leicestershire)
• Transportation and storage: 25.6% of jobs against 4.9% across Great Britain (North West Leicestershire)
• £14,370 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £241,000 buy-to-let
• 732 homes added across North West Leicestershire
• Band D £2,418 (North West Leicestershire)
• 0.8% long-term empty across North West Leicestershire
• +24% five-year forecast for East 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 North West Leicestershire 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 North West Leicestershire moved +48.4% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.

Transportation and storage is 25.6% of employee jobs in North West Leicestershire, against 4.9% across Great Britain (8,000 jobs in 2015, 20,000 in 2024). Where one industry carries that much of a local economy, rents and prices tend to move with it. Employee jobs across North West Leicestershire moved +34.5% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

38% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Ashby-De-La-Zouch's postcode districts are below band C (6,363 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 £241,000 pays £14,370 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

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

Towns in North West Leicestershire

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

The North West Leicestershire report

The full report measures North West Leicestershire 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 North West Leicestershire report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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Compare it with everywhere else

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