Investors ‘expect more’ from buy-to-let
April 4, 2007 by admin
Filed under News, News-Mortgages
Britons are “confident” that returns from a buy-to-let investment will be more profitable than other avenues, research from Mortgage Trust has found.
The group’s figures indicate that three-quarters of new landlords make an investment in bricks and mortar because they believe it is the pre-eminent investment vehicle.
Mortgage Trust also estimates that almost two-thirds of a landlord’s portfolio is comprised by property.
More than a quarter of respondents in a poll carried out by the group also claim that they choose buy-to-let investments because they are able to exert a significant degree of control over their investment.
John Heron, managing director of Mortgage Trust, said: “Landlords are placing a slightly heavier weighting on the property aspects of their portfolios because they are confident in the returns that can be generated from buy-to-let, more so than other investments in the current market.”
He said that this was particularly the case in recent times due to stock market volatility.
