{"id":8105,"date":"2026-07-13T12:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:41:16","slug":"mcr-beats-london-in-buy-to-lets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/mcr-beats-london-in-buy-to-lets\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester beats London in buy-to-let tables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manchester has overtaken London as the number one location for buy-to-let investors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepropertybuyingcompany.co.uk\/locations\/sell-house-fast-manchester\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Property Buying Company<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> data reveals that around 23% of investors are searching for property in Manchester, outpacing the 18% who look towards the capital for their next investment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The top five most in-demand cities for investors are Manchester at 23%, London at 18%, Liverpool at 8%, and Birmingham at 7%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This further highlights Manchester\u2019s ability to provide stable, long-term investment opportunities for both UK and international investors thanks to its thriving business sector and city centre population boom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why is buy-to-rent so popular in Manchester?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While average rents in Manchester have risen by around 3% in the last year to \u00a31,349 pcm, the city continues to offer average rental yields of 6.6%, compared to just 5.1% in London, with premium residences like Vita Living Circle Square North pulling in average yields as high as 7.5%.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the North West continuing to outpace the rest of the nation in capital growth, rental yields, and long-term investment potential, there\u2019s never been a better time to discover the investments available to you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/selectproperty.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact us<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to speak to a property consultant about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/selectproperty.com\/investments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your next investment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> within the UK property market. Our team would be happy to help.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester has overtaken London as the number one location for buy-to-let investors.\u00a0 The Property Buying Company data reveals that around 23% of investors are searching for property in Manchester, outpacing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8108,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions\/8108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}