When you are buying to let, you'll want to know the rental yield - ie. the return on your investment - the percentage return on the money spent.
So if you bought for $1 million, and earned a rent of $1,500 per month, your gross rental yield would be $1,500 x 12 / $1 million = 3.6%. Not a great yield; we would judge it to be poor.
Where do we get the data?
We are interested in the median yields in hand-picked areas in each country. The properties are usually apartments except in regions where the apartment supply is low and the sales market mostly consists of houses/maisonettes/townhouses/etc.
In most cases, we will focus on the city center and more upmarket areas as those will have the highest appeal to foreign buyers and investors.
We divide each region into 1-, 2-, 3, and 4+ bedroom properties in our research, but the table above represents the average yield percentage of each country.
Rental Yields Compared
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