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Figuring The Reality of Buy to Let
The ARLA History of Buy to Let Investment 2001/2007 has been published 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 it is particularly significant because
the data is provided by the landlords and agents who are involved in residential
property investment on a day-
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 would not have been able to produce this information
so consistently without the wholehearted co-
The ARLA History of Buy to Let Investment 2001/2007 has been produced in association
with the ARLA Group of Buy to Let Mortgage Lenders: Bank of Ireland, Cheltenham &
Gloucester, GMAC-

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