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: --
It is important to distinguish between buy-to-let insurance which generally covers one property that has been purchased with a buy-to-let mortgage, and multi-property insurance, which covers two or more properties.
The apparent growth in buy-to-let lending is attributable to the success of specialist lenders in taking market share by offering bespoke products and services and attractive pricing.
The high rate of lending may have been exacerbated by the buy-to-let phenomenon.
More recently, investors have seen buy-to-let as an alternative to their pensions, especially in light of the negative publicity pensions have received.
Landlords' insurance is often referred to as buy-to-let insurance, however buy-to-let insurance is a type of landlords' insurance.
In 2006, the 330,000 buy-to-let mortgages that were taken out accounted for 9% of outstanding home loans.
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.
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.
