Where are the scariest places to be a landlord in the UK?

With spooky season fast approaching, rental platform Bunk has looked at where across the UK is the scariest place to be a landlord based on the current rental yields available.

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Amy Loddington
18th October 2019
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On a national level, Wales is home to the most spine-tingling yields available at just 3.8%. A more worrying financial return than England (4.2%), Northern Ireland (5.4%) and Scotland (5.8%).

On a regional basis, the East of England is the most frightful at just 3.6%, with the South East and South West not far behind at just 3.7%, and the East Midlands also slipping below the four percent mark.

But where is currently the most haunting locations for landlords trying to make the best of a devilish attack on the buy-to-let sector, by a ghoulish Government intent on slashing any financial incentive?

Chiltern in Buckinghamshire is home to a chilling average rental yield of just 2.8%, along with Monmouthshire which shares the monstrously low average yield for landlords.

South Bucks, Charnwood, Cotswold, Suffolk Coastal, Powys, North Norfolk, East Devon, Kensington and Chelsea and Rushcliffe form a zombie horde of locations where the average rental yield is at just 3%.

Maldon, West Devon, Bromsgrove, Shepway, Purbeck, East Renfrewshire, Malvern Hills, Derbyshire Dales, and East Hampshire complete the top 20 scariest places to be a landlord with yields of 3.1%.

Co-founder of Bunk, Tom Woollard, commented:

“Being in the buy-to-let space can be frightful for a lot of reasons but while many can live with often temporary issues such as a nightmare tenant, a poor return on your investment is perhaps the most blood-curdling situation a landlord can find themselves in.
This Halloween, many buy-to-let investors will find themselves in the darkest spot they have been in some time, however, there are plenty of positives to take from the changing face of the UK rental sector.
By utilising the latest innovative tech platforms and products and reducing unnecessary running costs and high management fees, you can resurrect your investment and get it back in the green.”

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