Buy-to-let in West Lindsey

West Lindsey in figures

Gross rental yield

5.3% to 7.0%

By kind of home, across West Lindsey

Entry price, across its towns

£135,000 to £163,500

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+7.6%

UK House Price Index, across West Lindsey

Price move, 10 years

+47.9%

UK House Price Index, across West Lindsey

Population

99,716

West Lindsey, +5.8% growth

• Terraced houses across West Lindsey let for £730/mo against a median sale of £125,000 there: 7.0% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £741/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across West Lindsey rose 7.6% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +48% over ten years (West Lindsey)
• Agriculture, forestry and fishing: 7.3% of jobs against 1.4% across Great Britain (West Lindsey)
• £6,950 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £135,000 buy-to-let
• 1 regeneration award (West Lindsey)
• 543 homes added across West Lindsey
• Band D £2,354 (West Lindsey)
• 1.8% long-term empty across West Lindsey
• +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 West Lindsey 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 Lindsey moved +47.9% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.

Agriculture, forestry and fishing is 7.3% of employee jobs in West Lindsey, against 1.4% across Great Britain (2,250 jobs in 2015, 2,250 in 2024). Where one industry carries that much of a local economy, rents and prices tend to move with it. Employee jobs across West Lindsey moved +10.7% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

49% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Gainsborough's postcode districts are below band C (14,987 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 £135,000 pays £6,950 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 West Lindsey, and Clarity does not rank on it.

Towns in West Lindsey

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

The West Lindsey report

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

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Compare it with everywhere else

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