{"id":2453,"date":"2017-03-10T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2023-09-28T15:13:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T14:13:14","slug":"budget-buy-letanother-bout-boxing-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/news\/budget-buy-letanother-bout-boxing-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget and Buy-To-Let\u2026 another bout in the boxing ring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Private Landlords have already been feeling like they have had ten rounds in the ring with Mike Tyson or being current&#8230;Tony Bellew for that matter!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The referee thankfully did not score <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/02\/28\/brexits-weakening-pound-foreign-property-investors-dream\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">against the investor<\/a> yesterday and thankfully the budget did not include any further measures to make the life of the investor more harrowing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DDeYrG0pFp\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/02\/16\/manchester-salford-see-biggest-rise-rental-yields\/\">Manchester and Salford see biggest rise in rental yields<\/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;Manchester and Salford see biggest rise in rental yields&#8221; &#8212; BuyAssociation Group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/02\/16\/manchester-salford-see-biggest-rise-rental-yields\/embed\/#?secret=BmJkuxxa85#?secret=DDeYrG0pFp\" data-secret=\"DDeYrG0pFp\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Investors must be aware of the change in legislation coming into force next month with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2016\/10\/25\/mortgage-tax-relief-changes-wont-stop-landlords\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">abolishment of mortgage interest rate relief<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many fear that rents will soar over the long term and the government will be forced to backtrack over time.<br \/>\nOver 20 areas in the UK have already seen the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2016\/12\/21\/rental-growth-slowed-2016-set-rise-2017\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">average rent paid for a residential property grow<\/a> in excess of 3% over the last year. These findings highlight the growing affordability crisis facing the 4.3m tenants in the UK, and follow the government commitments outlined in last week\u2019s Housing White Paper to create a fair and better-served private rented sector\u2026\u2026now that\u2019s an article in its own right!<\/p>\n<p>Statistics suggest that by 2025 more people in the UK will rent rather than own property much like the rest of Europe<br \/>\nThe analysis suggests these 20 areas, where rental growth is reaching unsustainable levels, should now be the prioritised focus for government, developers and landlords. The current pace of growth means a tenant in Luton (the area with the fastest growing rents at 6.5%) is now paying an extra \u00a3528 over the year on rent, bringing total annual rent paid to \u00a39,354.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With basic economics in mind\u2026 there are more \u201cbottoms than there are seats\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/01\/23\/signs-hope-rental-market\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">the rental market<\/a> is very very strong, demand outstrips supply etc etc surely property prices will remain strong? The debate continues\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Complete RPI Ltd, a UK specialist, have maintained a 98% occupancy across their portfolio for the past three years UK nationwide which makes interesting reading.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"mwOX8cxHg5\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/01\/31\/meet-property-hotspots-2017-manchester-birmingham-edinburgh\/\">Meet your property hotspots for 2017: Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh<\/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;Meet your property hotspots for 2017: Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh&#8221; &#8212; BuyAssociation Group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/01\/31\/meet-property-hotspots-2017-manchester-birmingham-edinburgh\/embed\/#?secret=NUXmCuv88t#?secret=mwOX8cxHg5\" data-secret=\"mwOX8cxHg5\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Post-Brexit, changes and new report reveal that currency shifts are driving a fresh wave of property buyers based in the Middle and Far East <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/01\/05\/buyers-china-hong-kong-continue-investing-uk-property-despite-brexit\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">taking advantage of a significant \u201cdiscount\u201d in UK real estate<\/a>, this combined with the uncertainty of new leadership and insecure financial markets make UK real estate still a very safe bet for the wary investor.<\/p>\n<p>Canny investors are looking for diversity through both growth and yield and venturing further afield to cities such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2016\/12\/02\/two-thirds-property-investors-think-manchester-best-place-invest\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester<\/a>, Bristol and indeed the new flavour of the month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/01\/16\/londons-property-market-says-no-birmingham-will-welcome\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This article is part of our &#8220;Expert Advice&#8221; series and features advice from Rupert Smith, founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.completerpi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Complete RPI<\/a>. For more help get in contact with CRPI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.completerpi.com\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private Landlords have already been feeling like they have had ten rounds in the ring with Mike Tyson or being current&#8230;Tony Bellew for that matter! The referee thankfully did not score against the investor yesterday and thankfully the budget did not include any further measures to make the life of the investor more harrowing. Manchester<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/news\/budget-buy-letanother-bout-boxing-ring\/\" title=\"ReadBudget and Buy-To-Let\u2026 another bout in the boxing ring?\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":4468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[22,180,83,243],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expert-advice","tag-buy-to-let","tag-expert-advice","tag-investment-property","tag-spring-budget"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6096542,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/6096542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}