What is Gross Yield and Net Yield?
What is Gross Yield?
Section titled “What is Gross Yield?”Gross Yield is a property’s annual rent as a percentage of its value, before any costs are taken out:
Gross Yield = Annual Rent / Property Value × 100A $650,000 property renting for $32,500 a year has a Gross Yield of 5%.
What is Net Yield?
Section titled “What is Net Yield?”Net Yield takes the same idea but subtracts operating expenses first, so it reflects what the property actually earns you before financing:
Net Yield = (Annual Rent − Operating Expenses) / Property Value × 100Net Yield is always lower than Gross Yield — the gap between the two is a rough proxy for how expensive the property is to run (body corporate fees, land tax, management fees and similar).
Where you’ll see it
Section titled “Where you’ll see it”- Dashboard — a portfolio-wide Gross and Net Yield, blending every owned property’s rent, expenses and value.
- Property → Cashflow tab and Compare view — per-property figures.
How to read it
Section titled “How to read it”Both are quoted against the property’s current value, not the original purchase price — so yield moves over time as the property’s value changes, even if the rent doesn’t. Yield is one half of the classic yield-vs-growth trade-off in property investing — see Cash Yield vs Capital Growth for how to weigh it against expected capital growth.