Interest in shopping for amongst landlords has rebounded following final 12 months’s Autumn Budget with greater than half of buy-to-let buyers intending to buy new properties within the 12 subsequent months.
This is in accordance to new analysis from purchase to let lender Landbay which reveals 52% of landlords instructed Landbay that they intend to expand their portfolios this 12 months. A major leap from Landbay’s earlier survey following the Autumn Budget, the place lower than a 3rd (27%) mentioned they deliberate to buy extra property.
Last 12 months’s Budget introduced a rise in stamp responsibility on extra funding properties.
Now, almost two thirds of these intending to purchase (64%) say they are going to issue within the stamp responsibility improve into their negotiations. Just over half (52%) intend to buy houses that require little to no modification to meet future EPC deadlines.
While landlords plan to purchase on common three extra rental properties, some respondents are rather more formidable, planning to purchase as many as 10 or extra properties this 12 months.
Intention is nicely unfold throughout the BTL sector, with the largest intention coming from non-portfolio landlords (lower than 4 mortgaged properties) – at almost 1 / 4 – and from bigger landlords with portfolios of between 16 and 30 properties (22%).
The greatest proportion of these trying to purchase is landlords with rental properties within the South East (25%), adopted by London after which the North West of England.
BTL sector alternatives
Commenting on the newest evaluation Landbay gross sales and distribution director Rob Stanton mentioned: “While there are people who attempt to speak down the BTL sector and focus solely on the obstacles, it’s implausible to see many landlords are nonetheless trying on the alternatives.
“Whether it’s excessive tenant demand, robust rental yields or viable funding alternatives up and down the nation, landlords are setting their sights on rising their portfolios – which is implausible information for the one-in-five households that depend on the personal rented sector.
Landbay performed their analysis in May 2025, polling buy-to-let landlords with portfolios totalling roughly 3,000 properties.
