Is Sunderland really smarter than Cambridge for landlords?

Property118 Is Sunderland really smarter than Cambridge for landlords? An email landed in my inbox describing Cambridge as the worst city in Britain for buy-to-let investors and asking whether Sunderland could now be the smartest place to invest. I can understand why that headline works, because a Landlord Resource analysis , drawing on Zoopla data to September 2025 , puts the average gross rental yield in Cambridge at 4.7%, followed by Oxford at 5% and London at 5.1%. Sunderland appears at the opposite end of the table with an average gross yield of 9.3%, so anybody looking at where to invest