Buy-to-let in North Yorkshire
Yields, prices, demand and local risks for North Yorkshire, covering Bedale, Catterick Garrison, Filey and 15 more ranked towns.
North Yorkshire in figures
- Gross rental yield
- 4.2% to 5.5%
- By kind of home, across North Yorkshire
- Entry price, across its towns
- £160,000 to £290,000
- The cheapest postcode district's median sale
- Price move, 12 months
- +3.1%
- UK House Price Index, across North Yorkshire
- Price move, 10 years
- +34.3%
- UK House Price Index, across North Yorkshire
- Population
- 639,133
- North Yorkshire, +4.6% growth
- Terraced houses across North Yorkshire let for £830/mo against a median sale of £210,000 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 £849/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
- Prices across North Yorkshire rose 3.1% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.
- Prices +34% over ten years (North Yorkshire)
- Agriculture, forestry and fishing: 5.9% of jobs against 1.4% across Great Britain (North Yorkshire)
- £13,250 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £225,000 buy-to-let
- 2 regeneration awards (North Yorkshire)
- 2,706 homes added across North Yorkshire
- Band D £2,544 (North Yorkshire)
- 1.5% long-term empty across North Yorkshire
- +29% five-year forecast for Yorkshire and The Humber 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire moved +34.3% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.
Agriculture, forestry and fishing is 5.9% of employee jobs in North Yorkshire, against 1.4% across Great Britain (18,000 jobs in 2015, 18,000 in 2024). Where one industry carries that much of a local economy, rents and prices tend to move with it. Employee jobs across North Yorkshire moved +3.4% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).
64% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Bedale's postcode districts are below band C (7,507 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 £225,000 pays £13,250 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.
The five-year forecast quoted above (Savills, Yorkshire and The Humber) is a regional figure for Yorkshire and The Humber as a whole, not a forecast for North Yorkshire, and Clarity does not rank on it.
Towns in North Yorkshire
| Town | Entry price | Gross yield | Tenant demand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedale | £225,000 | 4.8%terraced houses | 6.4/10 |
| Catterick Garrison | £160,000 | 5.5%flats | 5.3/10 |
| Filey | £175,000 | 5.5%flats | 5.5/10 |
| Harrogate | £259,000 | 4.2%semi-detached houses | 6.6/10 |
| Knaresborough | £290,000 | 4.2%semi-detached houses | 6.7/10 |
| Leyburn | £245,000 | 4.2%semi-detached houses | 6.4/10 |
| Malton | £216,000 | 4.8%terraced houses | 5.9/10 |
| Northallerton | £195,000 | 4.8%terraced houses | 5.8/10 |
| Pickering | £225,000 | 4.8%terraced houses | 6/10 |
| Richmond | £218,000 | 4.8%terraced houses | 6.3/10 |
| Ripon | £230,000 | 4.8%terraced houses | 6.1/10 |
| Scarborough | £165,000 | 5.5%flats | 5.6/10 |
| Selby | £196,000 | 4.8%terraced houses | 5.7/10 |
| Settle | £245,000 | 4.2%semi-detached houses | 6.5/10 |
| Skipton | £240,000 | 4.2%semi-detached houses | 6.2/10 |
| Tadcaster | £273,000 | 4.2%semi-detached houses | 6.6/10 |
| Thirsk | £220,000 | 4.8%terraced houses | 6/10 |
| Whitby | £220,000 | 4.8%terraced houses | 6.1/10 |
Each yield is North Yorkshire's, for the kind of home that town's prices point to, and the year's price move is measured across North Yorkshire as a whole, so towns pointing to the same kind of home share a yield.
The North Yorkshire report
The full report measures North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.
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The latest Clarity PDF report for North Yorkshire, monthly rebuilds included.
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Compare it with everywhere else
The investment map ranks North Yorkshire against every other place we cover, on your own budget and strategy. Questions about the figures or about us are answered here.
Sources and further reading
- HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index
- HM Land Registry: Price Paid Data (England and Wales)
- Registers of Scotland: property market statistics (Scotland)
- ONS: Price Index of Private Rents
- ONS: Population estimates
- ONS: Business Register and Employment Survey
- MHCLG: Energy Performance of Buildings Data (England and Wales)
- HMRC: Stamp Duty Land Tax