Landlords in buy-to-let market losing confidence

[Landlord]

BDRC, a market research organisation, issues quarterly reports following interviews with hundreds of UK residential landlords in order to establish a snapshot of landlord sentiment and insight. Its latest survey shows that landlords are losing confidence in the buy-to-let market, with evidence of declining profitability and rising levels of non-payment of rent. Since BDRC began issuing its [...]

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[The-Letting-Shop]

I work for a letting agency and agree that landlords are becoming less confident in the buy-to-let market.

[BarryM]

^ Some. But I wonder how many "less confident" LLs have been buying with high LTV and gearing up on large portfolios where the numbers were borderline even in a rising sales market?

Yields are up - reflecting increased demand and arguably, more realistically priced poroperty for sale. I agree borrowing costs are up - but LLs with more modest LTVs will be doing very nicely over the next few years