{"id":2602,"date":"2017-04-11T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T06:00:42","slug":"buy-let-still-seen-attractive-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/news\/buy-let-still-seen-attractive-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy-to-let still seen as an attractive investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The buy-to-let sector is still seen as an attractive investment option despite the Government\u2019s crackdown, data from bridging lender Market Financial Solutions has revealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lender surveyed 1,000 investors out of which 37% stated they still see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2016\/12\/12\/property-investors-ready-get-build-rent-sector-big-time\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">buy-to-let as an attractive investment<\/a> whilst 27% said they\u2019d put their money elsewhere.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"EBNXFf9Fn7\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/04\/03\/buy-let-tax-changes-investors-guide-changes-happening-april-2017\/\">Buy-to-let tax changes: The investor\u2019s guide to changes happening in April 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Buy-to-let tax changes: The investor\u2019s guide to changes happening in April 2017&#8221; &#8212; BuyAssociation Group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/04\/03\/buy-let-tax-changes-investors-guide-changes-happening-april-2017\/embed\/#?secret=eu0TYJ00hN#?secret=EBNXFf9Fn7\" data-secret=\"EBNXFf9Fn7\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After a rather rough time, stacked with measures in an attempt to dampen down the sector, the buy-to-let market has recently experienced another hit: the changes made to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2016\/10\/25\/mortgage-tax-relief-changes-wont-stop-landlords\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">mortgage tax relief<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some investors are now looking for new ways of financing as 37% are considering short-term and alternative lending options for the next two years whilst the UK departs from the EU.<\/p>\n<p>However, only 9% of participants said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/03\/31\/brexit-big-change-little-impact-countrys-property-market\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Brexit negotiations may derail any further investment decisions<\/a> they had planned.<\/p>\n<p>Paresh Raja, chief executive of MFS, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cUK investors have spoken loud and clear, signalling their intent to continuing pursuing investment opportunities during the two-year Brexit negotiations that are now underway.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHowever, this research reveals that they are doing so with a more short-term and open-minded mentality, as investors seek different investment types to secure returns before the true effects of Brexit set in.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"f5dyrjLE6L\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/03\/22\/tax-change-biggest-risk-buy-let-investors\/\">Is tax change the biggest risk for buy-to-let investors?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Is tax change the biggest risk for buy-to-let investors?&#8221; &#8212; BuyAssociation Group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/03\/22\/tax-change-biggest-risk-buy-let-investors\/embed\/#?secret=EYHIBd5JOg#?secret=f5dyrjLE6L\" data-secret=\"f5dyrjLE6L\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although the amount of tax and legislation reforms thrown at the country\u2019s landlords seems extraordinarily huge, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/03\/29\/landlords-show-optimism-britains-buy-let-future\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">overall interest in buy-to-let investments remains huge<\/a>. A resilience that\u2019s probably \u201cspurred on by the health of the property market and unrelenting rental demand\u201d, as Raja puts it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat\u2019s more, within the coming 24 months of Brexit negotiations, a large number of investors are turning to alternative finance and short-term lending options to enable them to execute a responsive investment strategy in light of the long-term uncertainty surrounding Britain\u2019s political and economic landscape.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The buy-to-let sector is still seen as an attractive investment option despite the Government\u2019s crackdown, data from bridging lender Market Financial Solutions has revealed. The lender surveyed 1,000 investors out of which 37% stated they still see buy-to-let as an attractive investment whilst 27% said they\u2019d put their money elsewhere. Buy-to-let tax changes: The investor\u2019s<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/news\/buy-let-still-seen-attractive-investment\/\" title=\"ReadBuy-to-let still seen as an attractive investment\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":4410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,59,6],"tags":[22,29,41],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buy-to-let-landlords","category-trending-news","category-uk-housing-market","tag-buy-to-let","tag-investor","tag-property"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","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=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}