The influential ratandmouse website reports that FT Advisor picked up on Council of Mortgage Lenders data showing rents beginning to fall and predictions by YouGov’s head of financial services that the UK would be a “nation of renters” by 2020.
The ratandmouse says that the piece points out increasing buy-to-let lending, too, and identifies a new trend among landlords… with rental properties seen as pension investments rather than the basis for larger professional landlord portfolios.