Rental yields in Cyprus by city and district

Each figure is the median asking rent in a place, times twelve, divided by the median asking price there. The two medians come from different listings, homes offered to rent and homes offered for sale, so the yield compares two markets rather than one property's rent with its own price.

A place appears only where at least 30 listings stood behind each side, and the same test applies to apartments and houses separately. That leaves 71 districts with a figure; the rest have too few homes to rent to measure.

Every district links to its own area page, which prints the same yield from the same numbers, beside its prices, rents and comparisons.

Famagusta leads, at 7.4%, and Nicosia is lowest, at 4.5%. A high figure can mean low prices as much as high rents, so read it beside both medians in the table.

Across Cyprus, apartments yield 5.3% and houses 5.0%. Nicosia runs the other way, with houses ahead of apartments.

A gross yield comes before everything a landlord pays. Common expenses, repairs, insurance, management, furnishing and the months between tenants all come off the rent.

The price in a yield is also not what a buyer pays. On a new home VAT comes on top, at 19% for a home bought to let, because the 5% rate is only for the buyer's own main home; on a resale the Land Registry's transfer fee does. Either raises what you pay and lowers the yield on it.

Cyprus income tax law lists rent among the income it taxes, so what a landlord keeps depends on their own tax position and residence, which a yield figure cannot know.

Asking figures also run above the prices and rents actually agreed, and the gap need not be the same for rents as for prices, so treat a small difference between two places as no difference.

Use the district figures to decide where to look, then test a particular property on its own numbers: its price, the rent comparable homes nearby actually achieve, its running costs and its tax. A property priced above its area's median will yield less than the area figure and one priced below will yield more, before any question of why it is cheaper.

The figures are a dated snapshot, taken on 10 July 2026. The listings on each area page show what is on the market now.