{"id":20503,"date":"2018-08-24T09:45:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T08:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=20503"},"modified":"2018-08-24T09:45:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T08:45:17","slug":"buy-to-let-property-investment-isnt-just-for-older-landlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/news\/buy-to-let-property-investment-isnt-just-for-older-landlords\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy-to-let property investment isn’t just for older generations…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people still see property investment as the reserve of the older generation, but the average age of a typical buy-to-let investor has fallen dramatically.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While today’s younger people might seem more inclined to invest in emerging markets such as cryptocurrency<\/a>, it seems the tried-and-tested method of traditional property investment<\/a> is actually attracting a younger crowd, too.<\/p>\n

New research from online agency Yieldit has discovered that the average age of buy-to-let<\/a> investors has fallen by around 10 years since 2014, from 52.3 to 42, despite the average age of first-time buyers<\/a> rising in recent years as property prices have soared in the UK.<\/p>\n

The figures also show a split between straightforward residential and student<\/a> lets, with a significant drop in the typical age of a residential buy-to-let property buyer from 57.5 in 2014 to 40.9 now, while student rentals are being bought by people of an average age of 44.2 now compared to 52.3 in 2014.<\/p>\n

Winds of change<\/h4>\n

Ryan Hughes, head of sales at Yieldit, believes the research shows that there is “a wind of change blowing through the market” as younger investors<\/a> with the means to do so are choosing property investment to make long-term returns.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cInvesting in bricks and mortar is as popular as ever and although a small number of our buyers are owner-occupiers, the majority are property investors looking for tenanted buy-to-let.<\/p>\n

“Rising tenant demand and record house prices continue to attract a broadening number of people to the market, including a burgeoning number of first-time investors.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Younger people finding better prices<\/h4>\n

Earlier this year, it emerged that older people<\/a> are dominating the UK’s property market, with three quarters of the country’s housing wealth being owned by over-50s. However, while the older generations may possess the highest priced property due to huge capital appreciation over the years, investment property tends to be bought at a lower price point in order to generate the best returns, which could explain the trends being seen in Yieldit’s research towards a younger demographic.<\/p>\n

Young professionals are also increasingly being attracted to more affordable parts of the UK, with a huge rise in migration<\/a> towards the north<\/a> and the Midlands<\/a> away from pricier areas such as London and the south-east. With the possibility of getting more for your money, as well as better long-term returns when starting at a lower price point, the property investment market is being opened up to a wider demographic for those looking in the right areas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many people still see property investment as the reserve of the older generation, but the average age of a typical buy-to-let investor has fallen dramatically. While today’s younger people might seem more inclined to invest in emerging markets such as cryptocurrency, it seems the tried-and-tested method of traditional property investment is actually attracting a younger… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":20511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[257,341],"class_list":["post-20503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buy-to-let-landlords","category-investment","tag-investors","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}