Rented normally, you'd make about £33 a month.

Will it pay?Calculator

£33 of every £3,543 is yours to keep, each month

You keep under 1p of every pound of rent. The mortgage takes 69p.

+£3,543−£2,437−£1,064−£8£33

Rent inMortgageRunning costsTaxProfit

Rent £3,543, modelled from 47 nearby lettings within 1.5 km

□ service charge not published2 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

£213,332 + refurb costs

£63,344 of that never comes back — stamp duty, solicitor and lender fees.

£213,332 to buy it

deposit · stamp duty · solicitor · fees~£18,232, unseen

□ 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 £599,950 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?The deeds

Last sold for £237,500 in 2006

Nothing nearby is comparable, but asking is 153% more than the £237,500 paid for it in 2006.

□ this address’s own deeds, no comparable saleHM Land Registry Price Paid Data

Can we trust the rent?Rent evidence

Nearby lettings, but only by searching 1.5 km

We widened the search to find them, so these are not next-door comparisons.

+37 more

our bar: 10 within 500 m

■ 47 lettings within 1.5 km□ searched wider than our barAdvertised rents, not signed tenancies

What will the rent borrow?Lender test

The rent carries £375,915 of the £449,963 loan

That £74,047 is yours to find on top of the deposit. Tested at 125% instead of 145% — a company or a basic-rate taxpayer usually is — the gap is £13,901. Lenders test the rent at 7.5% and need it to cover 145% of the payment.

£4,078 needed

more than the £3,407 rent

stressed at 7.5%, 145% cover

◧ rent after empty weeks £3,407PRA-style test

How big is it, really?The plan

The plan and the advert, side by side 777 sq ft

Two figures for this house, and neither is a survey. Open for both.

AdvertFloorplan

767 sq ft777 sq ft787 sq ft

767 sq ft787 sq ft

neither is a survey — a tape measure settles it

□ area off the floorplan — not a survey

Is it a good location?Open the map

Richmond, TW10 7JE

1 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 to know before you offerThe checks

Every tenancy here is periodic, with no Section 21 to end it

Tenancies are now periodic, with no Section 21 — budget a longer void.

1 problem found · 1 came back clear · 6 we could not check · 1 does not apply to this property

■ from the Renters’ Rights Act 2025listing last seen 06 Sep 2026

Which strategy wins?The ways to run it

Nothing here beats a plain let

Let it to the council: £13,812 a year less, but they keep paying when it is empty.

Standard rental+£33 · £231,564 in

Rent by the room−£1,033 · £261,564 in

Guaranteed council rent−£1,118 · £231,564 in

Housing-benefit rent−£1,493 · £231,564 in

Short-stay let−£2,579 · £231,564 in

88 nearby short-lets within 11.1 km · medium confidence

Each row: money kept a month, then the cash it ties up. Not compared: Do it up, then remortgage (pays back at the remortgage) · Buy, improve & sell (pays out on sale)

◧ 5 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

−£20,762 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 25% in the price would leave nothing from a sale after selling costs, and you would still owe the lender any shortfall. That is the £231,564 you put in. The 5-year fix runs past this 5-year hold, so the rate reset comes after it.

−£231,564+£675,478−£16,887−£449,963+£2,174−£20,762

Cash you put inSale valueSelling costsMortgageRent keptYou are down

◧ 2.0%/yr growth assumed