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Buy or rent in Blaenau Gwent

Owning and renting the average home cost about the same each month. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at the average sale price; rent is the average of all private tenancies. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.

Rent per month
£682
Owning per month
£674

Try your own numbers

Starting from the average sale price of £143,243 and the average private rent of £682 a month in Blaenau Gwent, and a mortgage rate of 4.6%.

Assumptions
4.6
1
Buildings insurance, maintenance, and any service charge and ground rent. Council tax is paid by tenants too, so it is left out.
3
What the deposit and purchase costs could earn if invested instead.
7
Stamp duty (land transaction tax in Wales, LBTT in Scotland), conveyancing, survey and lender's fees, paid once.

Owning and renting cost about the same each month.

Rent a month
£682
Owning a month, not recovered
£674
Interest
£494
Running costs
£119
Return given up
£61
Cash out a month, if buying
£780

Gross rental yield in Blaenau Gwent

A year's rent as a share of the average sale price, month by month. Higher means rent is dear compared with buying.

Show the numbers
PeriodBlaenau Gwent
Aug 20265.7%
Jul 20265.7%
Jun 20265.6%
May 20265.7%
Apr 20265.7%
Mar 20265.9%
Feb 20265.8%
Jan 20265.7%
Dec 20255.6%
Nov 20255.7%
Oct 20255.6%
Sep 20255.6%
Aug 20255.5%
Jul 20255.5%
Jun 20255.7%
May 20255.6%
Apr 20255.7%
Mar 20255.5%
Feb 20255.7%
Jan 20255.6%
Dec 20245.5%
Nov 20245.5%
Oct 20245.4%
Sep 20245.4%
Aug 20245.3%
Jul 20245.4%
Jun 20245.4%
May 20245.4%
Apr 20245.4%
Mar 20245.3%
Feb 20245.4%
Jan 20245.1%
Dec 20235.2%
Nov 20235.1%
Oct 20235.3%
Sep 20235.3%
Aug 20235.2%
Jul 20235.1%
Jun 20235.1%
May 20235.1%
Apr 20235.0%
Mar 20234.9%
Feb 20234.7%
Jan 20234.6%
Dec 20224.6%
Nov 20224.6%
Oct 20224.6%
Sep 20224.6%
Aug 20224.5%
Jul 20224.6%
Jun 20224.5%
May 20224.7%
Apr 20224.6%
Mar 20224.5%
Feb 20224.6%
Jan 20224.7%
Dec 20214.8%
Nov 20214.7%
Oct 20214.7%
Sep 20214.8%
Aug 20214.8%
Jul 20214.9%
Jun 20214.8%
May 20214.9%
Apr 20214.8%
Mar 20214.9%
Feb 20215.0%
Jan 20215.0%
Dec 20205.0%
Nov 20205.1%
Oct 20205.2%
Sep 20205.2%
Aug 20205.1%
Jul 20205.2%
Jun 20205.4%
May 20205.5%
Apr 20205.5%
Mar 20205.5%
Feb 20205.5%
Jan 20205.5%
Dec 20195.4%
Nov 20195.5%
Oct 20195.4%
Sep 20195.3%
Aug 20195.3%
Jul 20195.4%
Jun 20195.5%
May 20195.5%
Apr 20195.4%
Mar 20195.4%
Feb 20195.5%
Jan 20195.7%
Dec 20185.6%
Nov 20185.5%
Oct 20185.5%
Sep 20185.6%
Aug 20185.8%
Jul 20185.9%
Jun 20185.8%
May 20185.8%
Apr 20185.9%
Mar 20186.0%
Feb 20186.0%
Jan 20186.0%
Dec 20176.0%
Nov 20175.9%
Oct 20175.8%
Sep 20175.8%
Aug 20176.0%
Jul 20176.2%
Jun 20176.1%
May 20176.1%
Apr 20175.9%
Mar 20176.2%
Feb 20176.1%
Jan 20176.1%
Dec 20166.0%
Nov 20166.1%
Oct 20166.1%
Sep 20166.2%
Aug 20166.3%
Jul 20166.2%
Jun 20166.1%
May 20166.1%
Apr 20166.3%
Mar 20166.4%
Feb 20166.4%
Jan 20166.4%
Dec 20156.6%
Nov 20156.6%
Oct 20156.6%
Sep 20156.5%
Aug 20156.8%
Jul 20156.7%
Jun 20156.8%
May 20156.7%
Apr 20157.0%
Mar 20156.9%
Feb 20156.5%
Jan 20156.5%

The comparison counts only the costs of owning you never get back: interest, running costs and what the deposit and purchase costs could earn elsewhere. Loan repayments build equity, so they are left out. So is any rise in the home's value, because nobody knows it in advance. Rents here are ONS's average of all private tenancies, new and continuing, which runs below what a new tenant pays; Scotland's are mostly advertised new lets, and its councils and Northern Ireland's take their nation's figure.

Other reports for Blaenau Gwent

Next 12 months

Sale prices have an 80% chance of landing between £141,211 and £166,843 by August 2027.

Expected, August 2027
£154,027
Chance of a rise
86%

Affordability

At the average sale price, a home costs £143,243. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is £661 a month. The UK sets no cap on the payment; no more than 15% of new mortgages may lend over 4.5 times income.

Payment, two incomes
11%
Payment, one income
23%

New homes

32.0% fewer homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Started, 12 months
66
Per 1,000 residents
1.0

Foreign buyers

Figures for United Kingdom: Blaenau Gwent has no reliable figures of its own.

Buyers living abroad bought 1.8% of the homes sold here in the four quarters to Q1 2025.

Bought by buyers abroad, 12 months
1.8%

Past cycles

Sale prices have fallen by 3% or more 11 times since 1995. The deepest began in October 2007.

Deepest fall
−29.5%
Recovery from the low
69 months

People and new homes

In 2025 the population fell by 125 while 87 homes were finished.

Homes finished, 2025
87
Population change, 2025
−125

Empty homes

7.5% of the 32,864 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.

Empty, 2021 census
7.5%
Empty homes
2,475