How do you calculate the rental yield on a rental property?

take your gross annual rent, subtract your expenses (taxes, maintenance, insurance, average vacancy), and divide by the property value times 100 if you want the percentage. like if you're renting at 800 euros a month with maybe 200 in monthly expenses, that's 7,200 net annually on a 200k property = yield of about 3.6%. people often forget about management costs though, which really impacts the final number.