Pick a suburb and we pull the real median weekly rent from Consumer and Business Services bond data. Enter a purchase price to see the gross rental yield, plus a quick rent-vs-buy comparison. Adelaide-focused, no signup.
Pick a suburb and enter a price to see the rental yield
Real suburb medians from the SA Valuer-General, the purchase-price side of the yield equation.
Open the tool →Investment properties attract land tax. See the annual bill before it eats into your net yield.
Open the tool →Stamp duty, LTO fees, conveyancer and more, the full upfront cost of buying the investment.
Open the tool →Zoning, overlays, reported-crime trends and median rents for Adelaide's most-searched suburbs.
Browse suburbs →As a rough guide, gross yields of around 3.5–4.5% are typical for houses and 4.5–5.5% for units. A higher gross yield often comes with trade-offs (lower capital growth, higher vacancy or strata costs), so read yield alongside growth, costs and location, not on its own.
Gross yield is annual rent ÷ price. Annual rent is the weekly rent × 52. A home renting at $600/week earns $31,200/year; on a $700,000 purchase that's a gross yield of about 4.5%. Gross yield ignores costs. Net yield after rates, insurance, management, maintenance and vacancy is usually 1 to 1.5 percentage points lower.
Median weekly rents are from the Rental Bond data set held by Consumer and Business Services (CBS), published quarterly on data.sa.gov.au. They reflect bonds actually lodged for new private tenancies, so they track the live letting market rather than asking prices. Suburbs with only a handful of bonds are flagged as low-confidence.
It depends on how long you'll stay, the price, the rate and your deposit. The rent-vs-buy panel gives a simple monthly comparison of repayments versus rent for the same property. Remember buying also builds equity and carries extra costs (rates, insurance, maintenance, stamp duty) that renting doesn't. Use the True Cost calculator for the full upfront picture.