Service Charges: The Hidden Yield Drag
How service charges vary by community and building, and the real impact on net rental yield.
Service charges are the line item that quietly separates gross yield from the return an owner actually keeps. This report samples 140 buildings to map how widely charges vary, by community, by building and by amenity load, and what that does to net yield.
The headline finding is that the drag can reach up to 1.4 percentage points of net yield between the lightest and heaviest buildings. For a yield-focused buyer, that is often larger than the difference they were chasing between districts in the first place.
What's inside
- Service charges by community
- What drives the variation
- Net-yield impact, modelled
- Red flags in a service-charge budget
- Questions to ask before you buy
Methodology
Service-charge data collected across 140 buildings, normalised per square foot and modelled against representative rents to isolate the net-yield impact by community and amenity profile.
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