Buy-to-let in West Devon

West Devon in figures

Gross rental yield

4.5%

On terraced houses across West Devon

Entry price, across its towns

£220,000 to £245,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+1.0%

UK House Price Index, across West Devon

Price move, 10 years

+35.4%

UK House Price Index, across West Devon

Population

58,980

West Devon, +4.9% growth

• Terraced houses across West Devon let for £840/mo against a median sale of £225,000 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 £846/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across West Devon rose 1.0% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +35% over ten years (West Devon)
• Agriculture, forestry and fishing: 14.3% of jobs against 1.4% across Great Britain (West Devon)
• £12,900 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £220,000 buy-to-let
• 1 regeneration award (West Devon)
• 318 homes added across West Devon
• Band D £2,705 (West Devon)
• 0.9% long-term empty across West Devon
• +21% five-year forecast for South West 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 West Devon 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 West Devon moved +35.4% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.

Agriculture, forestry and fishing is 14.3% of employee jobs in West Devon, against 1.4% across Great Britain (2,500 jobs in 2015, 3,000 in 2024). Where one industry carries that much of a local economy, rents and prices tend to move with it. Employee jobs across West Devon moved +5.0% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

55% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Okehampton's postcode districts are below band C (8,503 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 £220,000 pays £12,900 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

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

Towns in West Devon

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

The West Devon report

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

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Compare it with everywhere else

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