Good Investment Returns

Good Investment Returns. Expat UK buy-to-let’s still offer solid returns.

 Expat buy-to-let investments will continue to offer attractive rates of return compared to other asset classes, expat investors have increasingly searched out cheaper and higher yielding properties, research has found.

 A special report on the buy-to-let market looks at the macro and micro economic environment for buy-to-let investors and the factors that are likely to influence landlords investment choices over the coming years. It also highlights the need for a flexible and competitive buy-to-let mortgage market.

This is to facilitate continuing investment in a sector of the housing market that has grown in significance as home ownership has declined and demand for good quality rental residential property has increased.

The expat private rented sector has grown substantially in recent years. One in five (4.7 million) households in England now rent privately.

Nearly half of 25- to 34-year-olds live in the private rented sector (46%), almost double the percentage in 2006 (24%). There has also been a considerable increase in the proportion of 35-44-year-olds in the private rented sector over the past decade, rising from 11% to 29%.

Expat buy-to-let mortgages play a vital role in supporting housing supply in the private rented sector, with the market representing nearly 13% of new UK mortgage lending.

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