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Rental yield calculator

Work out annual rental cash and yield using your own rent, vacant months and property operating costs.

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Your 12-month rental scenario

Purchase price or entered property value (R)R0,01 to R100 000 000. The purchase/value basis must be positive.

Other cash acquisition costs (R)R0 to R20 000 000. Once-off cash transfer, legal or start costs. Enter 0 for none.

Scheduled monthly rent (R)R0 to R1 000 000. Your quoted or assumed rent, without a suggested rate.

Whole vacant months in the next 12 months0 to 12 whole months. Twelve vacant months means no rent received.

Monthly property operating expenses (R)R0 to R1 000 000. Combine non-loan costs such as rates, levies, insurance, maintenance and management.

Additional annual operating expenses (R)R0 to R10 000 000. Exclude costs already in the monthly amount or acquisition costs. Enter 0 for none.

Count each cost once. Additional annual costs must exclude anything already in monthly expenses or cash acquisition costs. Operating expenses continue for all 12 months, including vacant months.

Yearly cash after your entered costsFill in the details

Enter your purchase basis, rent, vacancy and operating costs. Enter 0 for known amounts with no cost or rent; blanks are unknown.

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How it's worked out

Scheduled annual rent is 12 times your monthly rent. Rent after vacancy uses 12 minus your whole vacant months. We subtract 12 months of operating expenses and your additional annual expenses to get signed annual operating cash.

Both yields divide by the purchase value plus your once-off cash acquisition costs. Scheduled gross yield uses rent before vacancy or costs; operating yield uses cash after your entered vacancy and operating expenses. The monthly average is annual operating cash divided by 12, rounded once for display.

All figures and assumptions come from you. Expenses may omit real costs. Loan payments, finance interest, tax, future improvements you haven't entered, property growth and investment returns are excluded. Rent and expenses stay constant; this doesn't estimate local rents, vacancy probabilities or a suitable yield.

Rental yield calculator

Your 12-month rental scenario

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