Britain's falling home ownership rate blamed on buy-to-let small-time landlords
Osborne wants more tax from BTL investments while BOE seeks powers to limit the size of BTL mortgages
London
THEY have pocketed some of the most lucrative returns available to investors in recent decades and been a staple of newspapers' personal finance pages, but tougher times now lie ahead for Britain's army of small-time landlords.
So-called buy-to-let (BTL) investors - who usually own at most a handful of properties - have enjoyed 20 years of surging house price growth and rents, and annual returns of nearly 10 per cent.
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