Buy-to-let in Windsor and Maidenhead

Windsor and Maidenhead in figures

Gross rental yield

4.6%

On terraced houses across Windsor and Maidenhead

Entry price, across its towns

£442,500 to £479,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+0.2%

UK House Price Index, across Windsor and Maidenhead

Price move, 10 years

+17.7%

UK House Price Index, across Windsor and Maidenhead

Population

159,776

Windsor and Maidenhead, +3.8% growth

• Terraced houses across Windsor and Maidenhead let for £1,820/mo against a median sale of £475,000 there: 4.6% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £1,800/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Windsor and Maidenhead rose 0.2% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +18% over ten years (Windsor and Maidenhead)
• £37,900 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £479,000 buy-to-let
• 440 homes added across Windsor and Maidenhead
• Band D £1,953 (Windsor and Maidenhead)
• 1.6% long-term empty across Windsor and Maidenhead
• +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 Windsor and Maidenhead 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 Windsor and Maidenhead moved +17.7% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.

Employee jobs across Windsor and Maidenhead moved +28.4% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

46% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Ascot's postcode districts are below band C (8,457 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 £479,000 pays £37,900 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 Windsor and Maidenhead, and Clarity does not rank on it.

Towns in Windsor and Maidenhead

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

The Windsor and Maidenhead report

The full report measures Windsor and Maidenhead 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 Windsor and Maidenhead report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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Compare it with everywhere else

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