Manchester named the best town to invest

That honour has landed on Manchester, which has been named as the top place to be a landlord, according to comparison portal GoCompare. It topped a list of 31 cities nationwide, pushing London to second place.

The survey complied a list of UK cities, in terms of owning and running a BTL investment, using measures such as average property price, yield, population under 35 properties available, number of management/letting agencies, number of new housing development in the local area, properties currently available to rent and rental price growth.

1. Manchester
2. London
3. Nottingham
4. Liverpool
5. Leicester
6. Cardiff
7. Birmingham
8. Sunderlan
9. Newcastle upon Tyne
10. Glasgow
11. Derby
12. Swansea
13. Wakefield
14. Kingston upon Hull
15. Coventry
16. Stoke on Trent
17. Wolverhampton
18. Sheffield
19. Leeds
20. Bristol
21. Peterborough
22. Bradford
23. Portsmouth
24. Edinburgh
25. York
26. Plymouth
27. Aberdeen
28. Southampton
29. Brighton
30. Oxford
31. Belfast