Buy-to-let in Tonbridge and Malling

Tonbridge and Malling in figures

Gross rental yield

4.5% to 5.0%

By kind of home, across Tonbridge and Malling

Entry price, across its towns

£300,000 to £385,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+1.6%

UK House Price Index, across Tonbridge and Malling

Price move, 10 years

+28.5%

UK House Price Index, across Tonbridge and Malling

Population

137,913

Tonbridge and Malling, +4.7% growth

• Terraced houses across Tonbridge and Malling let for £1,430/mo against a median sale of £345,000 there: 5.0% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £1,489/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Tonbridge and Malling rose 1.6% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +29% over ten years (Tonbridge and Malling)
• £26,100 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £361,000 buy-to-let
• 689 homes added across Tonbridge and Malling
• Band D £2,472 (Tonbridge and Malling)
• 0.8% long-term empty across Tonbridge and Malling
• +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 Tonbridge and Malling 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 Tonbridge and Malling moved +28.5% over ten years on the UK House Price Index.

Employee jobs across Tonbridge and Malling moved +15.3% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

44% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Aylesford's postcode districts are below band C (6,729 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 £361,000 pays £26,100 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 Tonbridge and Malling, and Clarity does not rank on it.

Towns in Tonbridge and Malling

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

The Tonbridge and Malling report

The full report measures Tonbridge and Malling 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 Tonbridge and Malling report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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Compare it with everywhere else

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