Download the The ARLA History of Buy to Let Investment 2001-2007 (1200k)

19 June 2007

The ARLA History of Buy to Let Investment 2001/2007 is published today by the Association of Residential Letting Agents, ARLA. It is hoped that these figures will halt much of the confusion surrounding the growth of Buy to Let, the investment concept that revived the Private Rented Sector and increased the options for the nation’s financial planning.

The publication is a compendium of all the statistics gathered by the Association from its member letting agents and investment landlords since the first quarter of 2001 up until the first quarter of 2007.

The data has been drawn every quarter from an average of around 500 letting agents and over 250 investment landlords.

ARLA believes that these quarterly surveys represent the largest single source of information about the Buy to Let market and are particularly significant because the data is provided by landlords and agents who are involved in residential property investment on a day to day basis.

Said Adrian Turner, ARLA Chief Executive, “Although ARLA launched the whole concept of Buy to Let, with the backing of the ARLA Group of Buy to Let Mortgage Lenders, in the autumn of 1996, it was after the Millennium that Buy to Let began to play a really significant role in refinancing the Private Rented Sector and providing more choice in good quality housing. It was then that ARLA was in a position to start acquiring data that provides us with a compendium showing the growth of Buy to Let.”

The data compiled from letting agents includes rental returns, the balance of supply and demand and achieved rent levels. From investment landlords, the information includes the life expectancy of individual property investments, expectations of acquisitions and sales of Buy to Let property and the reasons for entering the market.

Commented Adrian Turner, “We could not have been able to produce this information so consistently without the wholehearted co-operation of a great many ARLA member letting offices and our email subscribers. ARLA and the Private Rented Sector owe them a vote of thanks.”

The ARLA History of Buy to Let Investment 2001/ 2007 has been produced in association with the ARLA Group of Mortgage Lenders: Bank of Ireland, Cheltenham & Gloucester, GMAC- RFC, Mortgage Express, NatWest and Paragon Mortgages.

• Download the The ARLA History of Buy to Let Investment 2001-2007 (1200k)
• Download the latest quarterly survey of ARLA Member Letting Agents (127k)

More research on the UK Buy To Let sector can be found in the Buy to Let Section

 

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