I’ll be the first to admit that when we ran our latest regular quarterly data on rental yields for all regions in England & Wales, and I saw a sea of red in the year-on-year change column, it wasn’t the most positive picture I’ve ever been presented with.
However, as with all statistics and data it’s all relative, and if a week is a long time in politics in the UK, then a year is certainly a long time in the private rental and buy-to-let sectors.
A closer analysis of our Rental Barometer for the second quarter of 2022 does indeed show that rental yields had dipped across all regions of England and Wales in which Fleet lends. This however is not quite the signal that some might believe it to be.
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