Buy-to-let in Wyre Forest

Wyre Forest in figures

Gross rental yield

4.4% to 5.0%

By kind of home, across Wyre Forest

Entry price, across its towns

£210,000 to £258,500

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+3.7%

UK House Price Index, across Wyre Forest

Price move, 10 years

+48.0%

UK House Price Index, across Wyre Forest

Population

104,179

Wyre Forest, +2.8% growth

• Semi-detached houses across Wyre Forest let for £920/mo against a median sale of £249,000 there: 4.4% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £825/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Wyre Forest rose 3.7% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +48% over ten years (Wyre Forest)
• £15,850 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £258,500 buy-to-let
• 1 regeneration award (Wyre Forest)
• 537 homes added across Wyre Forest
• Band D £2,512 (Wyre Forest)
• 0.6% long-term empty across Wyre Forest
• +25% five-year forecast for West 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 Wyre Forest 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 Wyre Forest moved +48.0% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.

Employee jobs across Wyre Forest moved +6.1% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

67% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Bewdley's postcode districts are below band C (3,698 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 £258,500 pays £15,850 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

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

Towns in Wyre Forest

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

The Wyre Forest report

The full report measures Wyre Forest 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 Wyre Forest report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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Compare it with everywhere else

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