{"id":6105771,"date":"2025-07-01T08:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/?p=6105771"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:55:11","slug":"buy-to-let-landlords-adapt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/news\/buy-to-let-landlords-adapt\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy-to-let landlords adapting to shifting market with “pragmatic” approach"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re almost at the halfway point of 2025 and the first six months haven’t necessarily followed expected trends in the housing market. What’s the outlook among buy-to-let landlords<\/a>?<\/h2>\n

A new survey has revealed an attitude of ‘adapt and thrive’ among today’s buy-to-let landlords, with an overall confidence that the market will continue to deliver and keep their businesses strong.<\/p>\n

The highest proportion (41%) of buy-to-let investors in Lendlord’s<\/a> UK Landlord Sentiment Survey for the first half of the year described themselves as “somewhat confident” in the UK property market over the coming year, with 59.6% saying they expected house prices to increase slightly in their area over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n

With property investors tending to choose more strategic locations<\/a> to achieve the highest yields and capital appreciation, this positive outlook on prices makes sense. Increasingly, buyers are seeking properties in the North of England<\/a>, where prices have been seeing the biggest rises, and are expected to continue to do so.<\/p>\n

Buy-to-let investment strategy<\/h3>\n

Looking deeper at how landlords are prioritising portfolio strategy in today’s market, Lendlord found that the most popular primary investment strategy was ‘buy and hold’ – which involves owning and renting a property out over the long-term in order to maximise returns. More than a third (38.7%) of respondents said this was their preferred mode of investment.<\/p>\n

In the UK, and particularly in the North of England, the house price outlook<\/a> is for continued growth over the coming years. This makes holding onto a property for as long as possible a good way of potentially making the greatest gains.<\/p>\n

Knight Frank, for example, predicts that house prices could rise by around 3.5% by the end of 2025, while Savills expects values to have risen by 4% by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

The second most popular buy-to-let strategy is referred to by Lendlord as BRRR – buy, refurbish, refinance, rent. This involves buying a property to renovate and potentially add value, before letting it to tenants to bring in a monthly income.<\/p>\n

Portfolio boost<\/h3>\n

According to Lendlord, 70% of buy-to-let landlords intend to acquire more properties over the next 12 months, demonstrating that investors plan to act on the current market conditions ahead of potential future price rises.<\/p>\n

However, 41.9% said they were “more cautious” in their plans than they were six months ago. A similar number (40.9%) said there was no change in their investment plan.<\/p>\n

Most portfolios are performing at either ‘good’ (38.2%) or ‘average’ (39.3%) levels, while 27% of respondents said they were not facing any particular challenges at the moment.<\/p>\n

But with a regulatory shift on the horizon in the form of the Renters’ Rights Bill<\/a>, which could come into effect as early as this year, there is a feeling of ‘cautious optimism’ among some landlords, with 43.8% saying they were ‘somewhat concerned’ about the upcoming changes. A quarter, though, said they were ‘neutral’ about the reform, although just less than a quarter said they were ‘very concerned’.<\/p>\n

Supporting the buy-to-let outlook is a higher level of confidence in the mortgage market<\/a>, with 42.3% of buy-to-let landlords saying they were ‘somewhat confident’ about securing favourable mortgage products.<\/p>\n

This is likely to enable more investors to boost their portfolios – particularly in light of recent news that buy-to-let mortgage products are now at a record high.<\/p>\n

“Clear-eyed and pragmatic”<\/h3>\n

Commenting on the survey’s findings, Aviram Shahar, co-founder and CEO of Lendlord said: \u201cDespite the headlines, landlords are not retreating from the market \u2013 they\u2019re adapting. The sentiment is cautious, yes, but it\u2019s also clear-eyed and pragmatic.<\/p>\n

\u201cLandlords are still finding ways to invest, recycle capital and manage their portfolios efficiently. What they need is support in making confident decisions, whether that\u2019s running the numbers on a refurbishment or understanding how regulation might affect them.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur aim at Lendlord is to provide that clarity, through better insights, better tools and better finance options.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re almost at the halfway point of 2025 and the first six months haven’t necessarily followed expected trends in the housing market. What’s the outlook among buy-to-let landlords? A new survey has revealed an attitude of ‘adapt and thrive’ among today’s buy-to-let landlords, with an overall confidence that the market will continue to deliver and… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":6089304,"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":[22,15],"class_list":["post-6105771","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-landlords"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105771","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=6105771"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6105781,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105771\/revisions\/6105781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6089304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6105771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6105771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6105771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}