Rented normally, you'd make about £4 a month.

Will it pay?Calculator

£4 of every £762 is yours to keep, each month

You keep under 1p of every pound of rent. The mortgage takes 39p.

+£762−£295−£463−£1£4

Rent inMortgageRunning costsTaxProfit

Rent £762, modelled from 57 nearby lettings within 1 km

◧ market rent £762 · 57 comps2 empty weeks a year assumed

What if I change my assumptions?The dials

At the asking price, 25% deposit, 6.50% charged

Change any of these 16 and every card on this page changes with it. The 6.50% is the 5.75% quoted plus a company premium.

◧ worked out from local rents

What will it cost me to buy?Breakdown

£25,838 + refurb costs

£7,713 of that never comes back — stamp duty, solicitor and lender fees.

£25,838 to buy it

~£6,417

deposit · stamp duty · solicitor · feeswe haven’t been inside

□ works not inspected

What would have to be true?

Nothing — it works at the asking price

The rent covers the mortgage, the running costs and the tax at the £72,500 asked, so there is no discount this card has to name. A lower price would be upside, not a condition.

◧ worked back from the rent

Is the price right?Comparables

Nothing nearby is comparable — but it is 5% under its 2005 price

The dearest sold for 3.5× the cheapest, so the rent has to justify this price on its own.

you'd pay £72,500

£37,500

£38,500

£61,000

£80,000

£85,000

£88,000

£90,000

£95,000

£97,500

£120,000

£128,000

£130,000

£37.5k£83.8k£130k

£37,500 cheapest£130,000 dearest

12 completed sales, same property type, last 3 years

□ 12 sold nearby, not matched on sizeHM Land Registry Price Paid Data

Can we trust the rent?Rent evidence

Nearby lettings back this rent

We hold too few nearby asking rents to cross-check this figure, so nothing here confirms it a second way.

+47 more

our bar: 10 within 500 m

our own middle half£715–£812/mo

■ 57 lettings within 1 km□ no nearby asks to cross-checkAdvertised rents, not signed tenancies

What will the rent borrow?Lender test

The rent carries the whole loan — it could fall 33% and still cover it

Your deposit is what limits this one, not the rent. Lenders test the rent at 7.5% and need it to cover 145% of the payment.

£493 needed

of £733 rent

stressed at 7.5%, 145% cover

◧ rent after empty weeks £733PRA-style test

How big is it, really?The plan

The rooms are on the plan; the total is not

The plan is on file; the floor area is not.

□ no floor area published

Is it a good location?Open the map

Peterborough, PE1 2QX

3 of 5 schools in this postcode area rated Good or Outstanding and flood risk checking… — open for the map, the schools and the rest.

Article 4Not assessed for this address

■ postcode area, not this address

What could kill thisThe checks

£1,367 a year in charges for the building, owed even when nobody is living there

The contract the property is sold under sets these charges, and they can go up over the years.

3 problems found · 2 came back clear · 2 we could not check · 2 do not apply to this property

■ from the listinglisting last seen 18 Sep 2026

Which strategy wins?The ways to run it

Nothing here beats a plain let

Let it to the council: £216 a year less, but they keep paying when it is empty.

Standard rental+£4 · £32,255 in

Guaranteed council rent−£14 · £32,255 in

Housing-benefit rent−£186 · £32,255 in

Each row: money kept a month, then the cash it ties up. Not compared: Rent by the room (only 1 bedroom) · Do it up, then remortgage (pays back at the remortgage) · Short-stay let (no local short-let data) · Buy, improve & sell (pays out on sale)

◧ 3 ways, one measureranked on money kept each month, at the asking price

What would you walk away with, after 5 years?The five-year sums

−£3,863 after five years on the cash you put in, before tax on the sale

Less than the same cash would have made in a savings account, after tax on the interest. The savings account’s capital is not at risk; the property’s is. A fall of about 27% in the price would leave nothing from a sale after selling costs, and you would still owe the lender any shortfall. That is the £32,255 you put in. The 5-year fix runs past this 5-year hold, so the rate reset comes after it.

−£32,255+£84,651−£2,116−£54,375+£232−£3,863

Cash you put inSale valueSelling costsMortgageRent keptYou are down

◧ 2.0%/yr growth assumed