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Do the numbers work? Rents and yields, the HMO planning rules, growth and what owners made, and the council's letting picture.
| Typical private rent in Richmond upon Thames | A month | A year |
|---|---|---|
| All homes | £2,333 | £27,996 |
| 1 bedroom | £1,732 | £20,784 |
| 2 bedrooms | £2,222 | £26,664 |
| 3 bedrooms | £2,684 | £32,208 |
| 4+ bedrooms | £3,907 | £46,884 |
The council's typical rent against the typical home here (£644k): a gross yield of about 4.3%.
| Whitton | Richmond upon Thames | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housing allowance yield (%) | 2.6 | 2.3 | 3.2 |
| Rented privately | 20% | 24% | 20% |
| Homes ever let | 16% | 21% | 18% |
| Residents per home | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.3 |
| Homes owned by companies | 3% | 4% | 4% |
| Homes bought by companies since 2021 | 25 | 41 | 34 |
ONS private rents (council, 2026-08); Local Housing Allowance (VOA). Gross yields are before costs, voids and tax.
HMO planning rules: unknown here. Richmond upon Thames has not published HMO Article 4 areas to the national planning data platform, so we cannot tell whether HMOs need planning permission here. Ask the council's planning team.
| Whitton | Richmond upon Thames | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Postcodes under an Article 4 direction | 0% | 0% | 16% |
planning.data.gov.uk (Article 4 directions). Whether one address is inside an HMO area is on its postcode's Investing page. HMO Article 4 map · About HMOs
| Whitton | Richmond upon Thames | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population change, 2021–2024 | +1% | +1% | +4% |
| Homes added, 2021–2024 | +0% | +1% | +3% |
| People added per new home, 2021–2024 | 8.5 | 2.6 | 5.1 |
| Housing pressure vs region | 0.1 | -0.2 | -0.3 |
Like-for-like (repeat-sales) index, HM Land Registry. What owners made when they sold, by area and how long they held.
MHCLG council tax base (England), Ministry of Justice repossessions, ONS short-term lets.
Yields, prices, growth, renting and Article 4 cover, side by side.
| Nursery Lands & Hampton North | 3.5 | £548k | +29% | 16% | 0% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hampton Wick & Teddington East | 2.9 | £678k | +23% | 24% | 0% |
| Twickenham West | 2.8 | £657k | +26% | 19% | 0% |
| Twickenham Town | 2.7 | £686k | +19% | 34% | 0% |
| Whitton (this one) | 2.6 | £644k | +31% | 20% | 0% |
| Heathfield | 2.5 | £598k | +38% | 16% | 0% |
| Hampton Village | 2.5 | £726k | +28% | 18% | 0% |
| Queen's Road | 2.5 | £824k | +8% | 31% | 0% |
| North Sheen | 2.4 | £755k | +21% | 27% | 0% |
| Ham | 2.4 | £778k | +28% | 15% | 0% |
| Twickenham North | 2.4 | £711k | +23% | 25% | 0% |
| Teddington Central | 2.3 | £861k | +18% | 27% | 0% |
| Teddington North | 2.2 | £831k | +28% | 24% | 0% |
| Mortlake & South Barnes | 2.2 | £1.01m | +18% | 28% | 0% |
| Hampton Hill | 2.2 | £800k | +31% | 21% | 0% |
| Strawberry Hill | 2.0 | £715k | +27% | 23% | 0% |
| Richmond Central | 2.0 | £974k | +9% | 43% | 0% |
| Twickenham Marble Hill | 1.9 | £816k | +21% | 34% | 0% |
| East Sheen North | 1.9 | £1.10m | +20% | 25% | 0% |
| Kew Gardens | 1.8 | £1.04m | +14% | 30% | 0% |
| St Margarets | 1.8 | £1.04m | +20% | 29% | 0% |
| North Barnes | 1.4 | £1.49m | +20% | 26% | 0% |
| Richmond Park, Sheen Gate & Petersham | 1.3 | £1.32m | +28% | 17% | 0% |
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Local Housing Allowance, Outer West London rental area, 2026-27, a month: Shared room £576 · 1 bed £1,000 · 2 beds £1,300 · 3 beds £1,475 · 4 beds £1,800. The most a tenant on Universal Credit or Housing Benefit gets towards rent here, set at the cheapest 30% of local rents in 2023 and frozen since April 2024.
Gross LHA yields at this neighbourhood's 2025 prices: 1-bed rate vs flats 3.66% · 2-bed vs terraced houses 2.67% · 3-bed vs semis 2.54%.