Buy to let sector suffers fewer repossessions
Following the report from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), it appears that buy to let mortgage holders are suffering fewer reposessions than mainstream borrowers so far.
The number of buy to let repossessions in the third quarter of 2008 was in line with the first two quarters, standing at 900.
This means that whilst 0.1% of the mortgage market overall suffered repossessions, the buy to let percentage was only 0.8%.
The CML, however, is predicting that repossession will hit the buy to let sector increasingly as landlords begin to suffer in the grip of the credit crisis.

November 27th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I assume that’s 0.08%?
I don’t see why landlords should necessarily suffer - if there are more mainstream repossessions, then they’ll need somewhere to live, after all.