Ground Rent Investment Yields

Graph 7 shows the performance of ground rent investments over the past 10 years.

The analysis splits those interests having between 80 and 125 years to run from those that have terms of 800 years or more unexpired.

Yields from ground rents in the former category have remained fairly steady over the period. However, from a low of 5.08% in 2006, average yields in the 80 to 125 year market have moved out latterly to 7.23% in 2009.

There has however been a more prevalent reaction to the recession in the 800+ year unexpired market with a notable fall in average yields from a peak of 6.36% in 2007 to 4.33% so far in 2009. This arguably reflects investors' preference for long term secure income in times of turbulence and identifies longer term ground rents as the only area in the residential investment market to show a rise in values over the last two years of economic uncertainty.

Graph 7