The Great Landlord Exit in numbers and the regional solution I’ve been crunching the latest numbers on the buy-to-let sector, and two stats stood out that I thought this group would find interesting: 📉 31% of landlords now plan to reduce their portfolio size. 🏠 16% of new sales listings in early 2025 were previously rented homes. The narrative in the headlines is that "investing is dead," but I believe we are simply seeing the end of the casual investor. The professionals are still buying but they are moving regionally. I wrote a full blog on this (link in comments), but the key takeaway is this: Regulation is national, but math is regional. If your yield is thin, the new compliance costs (like Section 24 and the Renters’ Rights Act) break the deal. If your yield is robust like we continue to see in the North East it is just a manageable line item on the spreadsheet. The market now rewards discipline and punishes optimism. How are you stress-testing your deals for the upcoming 2026 regulation changes? 👇🏾 Link to the full data breakdown is in the first comment.

Posted by Keeshan at 2026-01-23 09:09:11 UTC