Buy-to-let in Stockton-On-Tees

Stockton-On-Tees in figures

Gross rental yield

5.7% to 7.1%

By kind of home, across Stockton-on-Tees

Entry price, across its towns

£130,000 to £200,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+2.4%

UK House Price Index, across Stockton-on-Tees

Price move, 10 years

+32.2%

UK House Price Index, across Stockton-on-Tees

Population

207,158

Stockton-on-Tees, +5.5% growth

• Terraced houses across Stockton-on-Tees let for £740/mo against a median sale of £125,000 there: 7.1% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £735/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Stockton-on-Tees rose 2.4% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +32% over ten years (Stockton-on-Tees)
• £7,300 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £140,000 buy-to-let
• 2 regeneration awards (Stockton-on-Tees)
• 753 homes added across Stockton-on-Tees
• Band D £2,590 (Stockton-on-Tees)
• 1.3% long-term empty across Stockton-on-Tees
• +29% five-year forecast for North 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 Stockton-On-Tees 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 Stockton-on-Tees moved +32.2% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.

Employee jobs across Stockton-on-Tees moved −2.3% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

48% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Stockton-On-Tees's postcode districts are below band C (55,081 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 £140,000 pays £7,300 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

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

Towns in Stockton-On-Tees

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

The Stockton-On-Tees report

The full report measures Stockton-On-Tees 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 Stockton-On-Tees report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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