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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 New Forest | A month | A year |
|---|---|---|
| All homes | £1,244 | £14,928 |
| 1 bedroom | £864 | £10,368 |
| 2 bedrooms | £1,132 | £13,584 |
| 3 bedrooms | £1,391 | £16,692 |
| 4+ bedrooms | £1,988 | £23,856 |
The council's typical rent against the typical home here (£335k): a gross yield of about 4.5%.
| Ringwood South | New Forest | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housing allowance yield (%) | 2.9 | 2.7 | 3.2 |
| Rented privately | 21% | 14% | 20% |
| Homes ever let | 15% | 11% | 18% |
| Residents per home | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.3 |
| Homes owned by companies | 5% | 1% | 4% |
| Homes bought by companies since 2021 | 67 | 3 | 34 |
ONS private rents (council, 2026-08); Local Housing Allowance (VOA). Gross yields are before costs, voids and tax.
HMO planning rules: unknown here. New Forest 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.
| Ringwood South | New Forest | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Postcodes under an Article 4 direction | 2% | 49% | 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
| Ringwood South | New Forest | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population change, 2021–2024 | +2% | 0% | +4% |
| Homes added, 2021–2024 | +1% | +1% | +3% |
| People added per new home, 2021–2024 | 6.3 | -1.2 | 5.1 |
| Housing pressure vs region | -0.9 | -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.
| Holbury South | 3.6 | £294k | +45% | 10% | 1% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totton Town | 3.4 | £317k | +39% | 16% | 79% |
| Marchwood & Dibden | 3.4 | £336k | +36% | 19% | 89% |
| New Milton West | 3.3 | £326k | +44% | 12% | 5% |
| Totton Calmore | 3.3 | £321k | +48% | 12% | 5% |
| Totton Rushington | 3.2 | £334k | +42% | 13% | 34% |
| Holbury North, Blackfield & Fawley | 3.1 | £361k | +42% | 13% | 30% |
| West Totton | 3.1 | £348k | +44% | 16% | 0% |
| Langdown & Dibden Purlieu | 3.1 | £351k | +47% | 10% | 65% |
| Hythe | 3.1 | £351k | +42% | 13% | 84% |
| New Milton East | 3.0 | £345k | +36% | 21% | 9% |
| Ringwood South (this one) | 2.9 | £335k | +33% | 21% | 2% |
| Lymington North & West | 2.8 | £390k | +45% | 16% | 20% |
| Fordingbridge, Rockbourne & Woodgreen | 2.4 | £400k | +39% | 17% | 26% |
| Ringwood North & Ibsley | 2.3 | £469k | +45% | 12% | 31% |
| Hordle & Bashley | 2.3 | £456k | +48% | 9% | 19% |
| Lyndhurst & Minstead | 2.2 | £529k | +39% | 15% | 98% |
| Bransgore & Burley | 2.1 | £516k | +47% | 12% | 50% |
| Barton on Sea | 2.0 | £558k | +45% | 10% | 99% |
| Lymington Town & Boldre | 1.9 | £561k | +30% | 24% | 96% |
| Ashurst & Cadnam | 1.8 | £575k | +43% | 9% | 96% |
| Milford & Lymington South | 1.6 | £646k | +47% | 12% | 92% |
| Brockenhurst & Sway | 1.5 | £726k | +46% | 11% | 100% |
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Local Housing Allowance, Bournemouth rental area, 2026-27, a month: Shared room £426 · 1 bed £695 · 2 beds £875 · 3 beds £1,150 · 4 beds £1,550. 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 4.94% · 2-bed vs terraced houses 3.31% · 3-bed vs semis 3.73%.