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Old 29th Apr 2008, 15:09
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General Zod
 
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BTL disaster? Not necassrily.

With the tightening of the credit market people, esp first time buyers, are going to find themselvers stuck in the private rented sector for a lot longer than they planned, this will swell the demand for private sector rented accomodation and keep rents bouyant.

There are also a number of people who sold up at the top of the market and are now in the rented sector waiting for the market to bottom out before buying again.

I think that the only place that will see a real price and rents depreciation is the SE of England where prices/rents were artificially high in any case. Up here in Scotland we still have above ave GDP growth, c8-10% house price growth and private rents are growing nicely
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