| Many pensioners could even use their pots to invest in buy-to-let properties which could stoke future house price bubbles. |
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| Easy access to buy-to-let mortgages for professional investors has been blamed by critics for making it harder for others to buy their own homes. |
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| The majority of buy-to-let mortgages are interest-only, but does that carry an inherent risk? |
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| The couple bought their dream home and two buy-to-let properties and invested in the stock-markets. |
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| The bank focuses on specialist lendings, including the market for buy-to-let mortgages. |
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| The rental sector remains highly fragmented, made up mainly of individual landlords who each own a small number of buy-to-let homes. |
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| As house prices continue their increasing prices, more are being bought by buy-to-let landlords. |
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| According to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the buy-to-let boom is continuing unabated. |
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| Although the owner-occupier markets in the cities are still strong, there have been dramatic slowdowns in the buy-to-let sector. |
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| We have over 700 prospective buyers registered on our books and a lot of them are ready to proceed having already sold or they are looking for a buy-to-let property. |
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| There are two million buy-to-let landlords in the private sector. |
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| It has concentrated on the buy-to-let market where it sells products through intermediaries. |
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| We own a buy-to-let property which we want to sell in order to buy a more expensive one. |
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| They are useful if you need a lump sum, perhaps to put down a deposit on a second home or buy-to-let. |
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| We asked the experts for tips on how to get a good deal on a buy-to-let mortgage. |
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| Whereas a standard home loan depends on your earnings, a buy-to-let advance is based on rental potential. |
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| You are a classic buy-to-let merchant, otherwise known as a wheeler-dealer. |
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| For example, interest on borrowings to purchase buy-to-let property can be offset against rental income for individual property investors. |
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| Over the weekend the Sunday Times wrote an article saying people shouldn't rely on buy-to-let to finance their old age. |
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| Around 56 per cent of the loans are to buy-to-let customers, with 38 per cent self-certified and the remainder standard mortgages. |
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| There have been three main drivers behind the buy-to-let boom. |
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| And don't even start me on buy-to-let, which, along with the sale of council houses, has contributed to the return of Rachmanism, as well as a dearth of good social housing. |
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| House lettings are holding up despite fears that the buy-to-let boom could be running out of steam, according to specialist lender Paragon Mortgages. |
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