Rental yield calculator · free
What will a home in Sri Lanka 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
Every figure, with its source
What went into 2.94%
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: 2.67%.
Rules to know in Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka a foreigner may buy a condominium unit on any floor, provided the entire value is paid upfront through an inward foreign remittance before the deed of transfer is executed; the old fourth-floor rule was removed with effect from 1 April 2018 (Land (Restrictions on Alienation) (Amendment) Act No. 21 of 2018, s.2). Land · 26 Oct 2026
In Sri Lanka rent and sale proceeds of property bought by a non-resident through an Inward Investment Account are credited back to that account, and the account may remit money abroad to the holder without a set yearly limit (Foreign Exchange Regulations No. 2 of 2021, Gazette 2213/35, Part I A.4(1); CBSL Directions No. 15 of 2021, para 5(a)). Foreign Exchange Regulations No. 2 of 2021 · 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: our free Tax guide works it out for ten home countries. Loan interest is shown separately, as the yield on your own money.
A planning tool: it works the yield out from the published rules and the figures you type. Currency movement, price growth, furnishing and the cost of selling sit outside it, and an advisor checks every figure for your own unit and date.
The yield is a starting point
Talk through this property’s numbers with an advisor.
A free 15-minute call: an advisor checks the rent evidence, the building’s charges and the title behind the yield, and tells you what the figure rests on.