Thursday, 24 February 2011

BBC NEWS | Business | Buy-to-let landlords 'hit harder'

Buy-to-let landlords are losing their properties at over three times the rate of other homeowners, research shows.

Council of Mortgage Lenders figures show 1,700 buy-to-let properties were repossessed by lenders in the first three months of this year.

But landlords lost 4,100 properties when cases of lenders appointing a receiver of rent are included.

A receiver of rent collects rent on behalf of a lender when the landlord defaults on the mortgage.

The recession is also making buy-to-let mortgages much harder to come by.

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