Main image: Note In a world of data, it is surprisingly difficult to arrive at comparative income returns for different asset classes. For residential buy to let investments, our model uses a combination of data from the valuation office, the Land Registry and Rightmove. We have then had to take into account that while commercial property income streams will often be underpinned by full repairing and insuring leases, in the residential markets these are the responsibility of the landlord. Agricultural tenancy obligations sit somewhere in the middle. For consistency, we provide figures net of all irrecoverable costs in line with IPD industry standards. No account has been taken of the restricted tax relief available to private buy to let investors using mortgage finance (which would reduce effective income returns for some investors). Source Savills Research
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