Millennial landlords now account for a report 50% of shareholders in new buy-to-let (BTL) restricted firms arrange to this point this 12 months, Hamptons month-to-month lettings index reveals.
Hamptons says it estimates that they are going to arrange 33,395 new BTL firms in 2025, which represents greater than twice (142%) the quantity integrated in 2020.
So far this 12 months, 75% of shareholders in new firms had been underneath the age of fifty, which is a 68% rise from a decade in the past.
Elsewhere, it reveals that investor exercise is more and more concentrated within the North of England, the place yields are increased and stamp responsibility prices are decrease.
It discovered that 28.4% of properties offered within the North East had been purchased by a landlord in Q3 2025, in comparison with 8.0% in London.
In addition, the share of properties purchased by a landlord remained unchanged from final 12 months, regardless of the rise in second residence stamp responsibility surcharge,
The newest information reveals that nationally, landlords accounted for 11.3% of purchases in Q3 2025, a slight enhance from 11.2% in Q3 2024.
However, it discovered that these purchases are more and more concentrated exterior the South of England.
Together, London, the South East, South West and East of England accounted for simply 34% of investor purchases throughout England & Wales in Q3 2025. As not too long ago as 2016, these areas had accounted for 50% of purchases.
Meanwhile, the common lease for a newly let residence in Great Britain fell by 0.3% over the 12 months to September 2025, down £4 per thirty days.
Hamptons head of analysis Aneisha Beveridge says: “Landlord purchases haven’t collapsed within the face of upper taxes and tighter regulation – however they’ve shifted.”
“New landlords have more and more turn out to be an endangered species in markets throughout Southern England, the place huge stamp responsibility payments and flatlining costs have nudged traders northwards. But in locations just like the North East, landlord exercise stays near all-time highs, exhibiting that the buy-to-let market is adapting quite than retreating.”
“What’s placing is the rise of youthful landlords. Millennials – a lot of whom have struggled to purchase their very own residence – at the moment are main the cost in buy-to-let. Thirty years on from the invention of the buy-to-let mortgage, which kick-started funding by Baby Boomers, it’s clear {that a} new era is discovering alternative routes to construct wealth by way of bricks and mortar.”
“Despite the challenges, Millennials and Gen Z are exhibiting an analogous urge for food for long-term property funding, which helps to stabilise the market.”
“Rental progress remained unfavourable in September, with tenants discovering they’ve extra room to barter than they’ve had over the past 5 years.”
“While decrease rents are at all times welcome information for tenants, there are nonetheless too many value pressures dealing with landlords for a nominal fall in rents to show right into a extra significant correction within the months forward.”
