How do you become the UK’s Buy-To-Let King?
“We did it,” says Fergus ‘900 houses’ Wilson, “by avoiding buying flats … Poor people live in flats … and they live in flats because they can’t afford a house.”
These and other nuggets of wisdom can be absorbed over at the Renegade Economist website in a priceless exchange [...]

The publication of the CML’s half-yearly stats on BTL lending generated a lot of ‘end is nigh’ headlines … Such as:
•    The Buy-To-Let Chickens Come Home To Roost (Guardian)
•    Buy-To-Let Backfires (Daily Mail)
Not quite sure what a backfiring chicken coming home to roost would look like, but you get the general idea… investors are in [...]

Here’s a little multiple choice question for you.
Buy-to-let will:
A. Contract significantly as landlords cut their losses and sell, sell, sell
B. Hold firm in the short term and expand thereafter as landlords rake in the profits thanks to rising demand
Skandia, the savings and pensions chappies, would definitely put their tick next to ‘A’ – [...]

I was in a taxi the other evening making a big effort to increase my carbon footprint (difficult when you don’t have a car, but I try to make up for it by not recycling).
Anyway, the driver was Polish – a sort of thoughtful, well educated and very polite Travis Bickle with a Masters in [...]