Rental Yield Calculator Walkthrough
Learn to compute yield with transparent assumptions.
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Walk me through calculating rental yield. Property price and purchase costs: [PRICE_COSTS]. Expected rent and vacancy: [RENT_VACANCY]. Annual costs (management, maintenance, insurance, taxes, fees): [ANNUAL_COSTS]. Financing assumptions, if any: [FINANCING]. Explain gross yield, net yield, and cash-on-cash return with formulas and a worked calculation using my numbers. Present a table with each line and its source, labelled as my assumptions. Add a sensitivity table varying rent, vacancy and repairs by plausible ranges that I set. Warn about common errors (leaving out void periods or capital works). This is education, not investment advice: do not recommend buying, forecast prices, or promise returns. Mark tax and legal points [VERIFY] for [JURISDICTION] and suggest that a qualified accountant checks the model. Also add a spreadsheet layout with named inputs and formulas for each yield measure, a sample filled in with invented numbers for a property priced at 250,000 with rent of 1,150 a month (gross yield about 5.5 percent, shown with the arithmetic), and a list of costs commonly forgotten, such as periods between tenants, letting fees, compliance certificates and capital expenditure. Provide a short guide to comparing two properties on the same basis, a test to make sure the model still works if vacancy doubles, and a warning that yield is not the same as total return. Explain what questions to put to an accountant about tax treatment, marked [VERIFY], and remind me that numbers here are illustrations and my own inputs must come from real quotes and records. Finally, add a one-page summary of the property analysis with the key inputs, the three yield measures, the two assumptions with the greatest effect, and the questions I need an accountant or adviser to answer before I decide. This is education and arithmetic, not advice to buy, sell or invest. Mark tax, financing and regulatory points [VERIFY] for [JURISDICTION], and suggest I test the model with worse numbers than I expect.
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