Northern Ireland in context
Official average property prices and annual growth
NORTHERN IRELAND / INVESTGUIDE
A CLEARER VIEW
OF YOUR INVESTMENT.
Compare the cost of buying, understand local markets
and test the rental income your investment needs.
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Read the original guide (PDF in Google Drive)The Q2 draft is the starting snapshot. Live sources are checked automatically; reporting periods are shown beside each dataset.
01 / THE BIG PICTURE
THE MARKET AT A GLANCE
FROM THE ORIGINAL GUIDE
Edition sources and data notes
THE LONGER VIEW / SINCE 2005
PUT TODAY’S PRICES IN PERSPECTIVE.
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Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index. Actual historical rental comparisons will be added once the ONS rental dataset can be retrieved and validated. No missing rents have been estimated.
02 / FIND YOUR MARKET
LOCAL PRICES. DIFFERENT PROSPECTS.
03 / PUT THE NUMBERS TO WORK
WHAT RENT DOES YOUR INVESTMENT NEED?
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Monthly rent required at the selected gross yield
A target is not an achieved rent. Where purchase prices are published, these figures reverse the yield calculation using the selected edition’s prices. Check comparable lettings for the actual property.
YOUR PROPERTY / YOUR NUMBERS
Test the income case
Your editable assumptions stay separate from the selected edition.
Gross yield
After costs*
*Operating yield before finance and tax. Costs are an editable illustration, not an estimate. Purchase costs, capital works and appreciation are excluded.
04 / RENTAL MARKET PULSE
DEMAND BEHIND THE INCOME
PROPERTYPAL / Q2 2026
£1,013 per month
Average advertised rent • +3.8% annually
63enquiries per rental
−5%available rental stock, YoY
5.1%indicative gross benchmark
Benchmark = £1,013 × 12 ÷ £239,234 advertised average price. Different sale and rental samples; not an achieved portfolio yield. Fixed quarterly data.
ONS / OFFICIAL RENT SERIES
£875 per month
Northern Ireland • May 2026 • +2.3% annually
NI measures advertised new lets and is published with a lag. Do not combine this rent with a different-period price as a directly comparable market yield.
05 / THE EVIDENCE
KNOW WHAT YOU’RE COMPARING.
Official transaction prices, advertised prices and modelled returns answer different questions. Every edition preserves that distinction.
How automatic updates work
Latest market checks HM Land Registry’s open data and the latest ONS bulletin on a visit once the daily refresh window expires. Price history refreshes in the background and becomes available on a subsequent visit. Successful data is saved; an unavailable source retains the last successful snapshot. All dated guide editions remain fixed and are never filled with live data.
PropertyPal and the draft’s detailed NI tables remain labelled Q2 2026 unless replaced by validated official feed data. No automatic rewriting of investment commentary takes place.
Sources, periods and methodology
Archived editions reproduce their original published values and retain source limitations. Use the source notes and PDF link beside each selected edition. The official history explorer is a separate revised dataset, capped at the selected edition’s data cutoff.
- HM Land Registry open HPI data · official standardised prices, revised monthly; NI quarterly.
- UK HPI, June 2026 · fixed edition national comparison.
- ONS private rent and house prices, August 2026 · NI rents to May 2026.
- PropertyPal Q2 2026 · advertised prices, rents and market activity.
- Department of Finance NI HPI, Q2 2026 · detailed values transcribed from the supplied John Minnis draft; original PDF could not be independently retrieved during preparation.
Fixed edition values are from “JM – Q2 2026 Investment Guide – Draft v.1”. Local charts include areas with data in that draft; missing values are never estimated. Official data may be revised. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Understanding gross and operating yield
Gross yield = monthly rent × 12 ÷ purchase price × 100. Required monthly rent = purchase price × target yield ÷ 12. Operating yield deducts the selected share of rent for costs and voids, before finance and tax. Local price rankings do not establish local yields without matched rental evidence. Past growth is not a forecast.