Homes in ST19 sell for a median of £310,000 across 229 sales over two years (HM Land Registry), which is +7% against the South Staffordshire median of £290,000. Set against the local average rent of £949 a month (ONS), that implies a 3.7% gross yield here versus 3.9% for South Staffordshire as a whole.
Rents are published per district, not per postcode, so the yield above applies the South Staffordshire average rent to ST19 prices. It's the right way to compare postcodes on entry price, but rents do vary street by street, and gross yield ignores costs, voids and mortgage interest.
ST19 averages tell you where to look, not whether one particular flat stacks up. Paste a listing and gemhome runs the actual numbers: yield, cash flow, the lender stress test, EPC work and what the public records say about that specific address.
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