Rental yield calculator · free
What will this home really earn you, after every cost and tax?
Each country’s buying duties, yearly charges and tax on rent come from our Library, read at the government’s own pages and dated. You type only what the market sets: the rent, the building’s charges, the agent and the loan.
Your yield
Your first year, in cash
You get the difference only after filing a return in India. A lower-tax certificate (Form 128) stops most of it being kept back.
Every figure, with its source
What went into 2.10%
Figures with a source come from our Library, read at the official page on the date shown. The rest are yours.
If the rent or the empty months change
Your yield after costs and tax, with the rent 10% lower to 10% higher.
One more empty month: 1.84%.
Rules to know in India
An NRI or an OCI cardholder may buy any residential property in India except agricultural land, a farmhouse or plantation property, paying through banking channels or from an NRE, NRO or FCNR(B) account (RBI FAQ on Purchase of Immovable Property, updated 6 April 2023; NDI Rules 2019, rule 24). RBI FAQ · 26 Oct 2026
Current income like rent, dividend, pension and interest is a permissible credit to an NRE account, and current income in an NRO account is repatriable; other NRO balances may be remitted up to USD 1 million per financial year (RBI FAQ on Accounts in India by Non-residents, 16 January 2025). RBI FAQ · 26 Oct 2026
How it works
Official rules, your figures, nothing guessed.
Advertised (gross) yield is a full year’s rent divided by the price. After costs takes off the months empty and every yearly cost, and divides by the price plus every buying cost. After tax also takes off the tax on the rent in the country where the home is, worked out with that country’s own bands and allowances for someone in your position.
Tax at home on the same rent is not included: our free Tax guide covers it for ten home countries. Loan interest is shown separately, as the yield on your own money.
An educational tool, not investment, tax, legal or valuation advice. It leaves out currency movement, price growth, furnishing and the cost of selling. Check every figure for your own unit and date.
The yield is a starting point
Now test the property behind the numbers.
A yield does not check the title, the developer, the building’s finances or the evidence for the rent.