ASK138: What is considered a good yield? Plus: What do I need to be aware of when buying a prefab?

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

Business News, News, Business, Education, Investing

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🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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It's time for another couple of questions in this week’s edition of ‘Ask Rob & Rob’, Guy & Caroline ask Rob & Rob...What is considered a good yield? Plus: What do I need to be aware of when buying a prefab? ... ASK YOUR OWN QUESTION TO ROB & ROB! Don't be shy! All you need to do is leave a message with your name and whatever's on your mind. Just pick up the phone and call 013 808 00035 (normal UK call rates apply). Or if you prefer, click here to leave a recording via your computer instead. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Rob. And I'm Rob. And this is Ask Rob and Rob.
0:05.8	Howdy everyone and welcome back to Ask Rob and Rob where you ask us questions and we give you answers
0:14.0	same format every week you kind of know it by now and also the way you get involved is
0:17.9	pretty easy too if you've listened to a few of these but we'll remind you
0:21.7	just in case.
0:22.6	Yeah, you should know this, but it's 013, 808,00035.
0:26.2	That's 013, 808,00035.
0:28.4	Leave us a voicemail or go over to the Property Hub.
0:30.9	dot net slash Ask, leave us a message that way instead.
0:34.6	And that's exactly what Guy has done and he's got a question about yields.
0:38.6	Hi Rob and Rob this is Guy from Wakefield. I just wonder what you guys consider is a high yield for rent
0:46.0	I've got a few properties in Yorkshire and I'm getting about five or six percent yield
0:50.3	I'm in the markets buy another one or two and I just wondered is higher than five or six percent
0:56.6	still achievable in today's climate or what I should perhaps consider for my next purchase to get a higher yield.
1:03.6	Any advice? Amazing. Cheers.
1:06.0	Okay, thank you Guy. Not an uncommon question at all.
1:08.6	Very hard for people to figure out what's achievable I think.
1:11.6	The first thing to do is to work out what we're talking
1:14.2	about. So whenever anyone is talking to you about yield, make sure first of all you're both
1:18.4	talking about the same thing. So what it sounds like is that Guy is talking about gross yield.
1:23.5	So that is the annual rent divided by the purchase price.
1:26.7	There's also net yield, there's also ROI.
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