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Will there be a shortage of buy-to-let lending?

Over the next five years, favourable margins and low rates of payment problems mean that lenders will be able and willing to meet landlords’ growing demand for buy-to-let mortgages. Hence, a lack of buy-to-let lending should not prove a constraint on the expansion of the private rented sector.

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