Why buy to let still makes sense – and sustainability adds value
“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated,” wrote author Mark Twain, having read his own obituary in the New York Journal in 1897. Parallels might be drawn with recent national press coverage of the buy to let sector. The publication of the white paper on ‘a fairer private rented sector’ on 16 June has fuelled speculation in some quarters that the government has PRS landlords in its sights - again - and that a combination of further regulation and rising interest rates is set to make buy to let investment unprofitable, spurring a widespread sell-off of rental property and killing off the sector as we know it.
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