can you still make money as a UK landlord?

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It’s changing into more and more tough to earn cash from UK property. Tax modifications introduced in on the finish of the final decade have squeezed landlords’ revenue margins, and brought on some to contemplate promoting up and deploy their cash elsewhere.

Analysis from actual property group Hamptons final week discovered that new buy-to-let funding had fallen to its lowest degree since 2007. Throughout Britain, 10 per cent of dwelling gross sales went to BTL buyers within the first 4 months of 2025, down from 11 per cent in 2024.

The one British area the place BTL gross sales have elevated from 2015 is the North East, the place decrease home costs make yields extra engaging (at 9.3 per cent gross).

Is the once-popular technique of shopping for a close-by property to complement retirement nonetheless an possibility for so-called newbie landlords? Or do you want to develop into integrated and scale as much as make any returns? Will the Renters Rights’ invoice, anticipated to take impact this summer season, change the calculus for landlords?

We’re trying to speak to landlords who’re both carrying on their portfolio or have not too long ago bought up; maybe you will have moved away from bricks-and-mortar to put money into different property automobiles, equivalent to Reits?

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