0 the activity of buying homes in order to rent them to other people rather than live in them yourself:
1 the practice of buying a house or apartment in order to make money by renting it to someone else, and not so that you can live in it yourself :
Buy-to-let gives the investor a solid investment that they can look at.
2 relating to the practice of buying a house or apartment in order to rent it to someone else, to a person that does this, or to the house or apartment that is bought:
A lot of buy-to-let purchases have forced up the price of property and contributed to a huge escalation in property prices.
Many young people today put their money in buy-to-let properties.
He spoke about young people and buy-to-let schemes.
If, as it appears, some of the buy-to-let properties are now proving difficult to let because of over-supply, that may contribute to an artificially steep downturn in property prices.
Returns on buy-to-let investment stagnated in the fourth quarter of 2003 due to the over-supply of rental property; too many people have gone into the market.
One of the reasons why interest has increased in the buy-to-let schemes is that the assets belong to people, just as their houses, cars or any other assets do.
In 2006, the 330,000 buy-to-let mortgages that were taken out accounted for 9% of outstanding home loans.
Landlords' insurance is often referred to as buy-to-let insurance, however buy-to-let insurance is a type of landlords' insurance.
