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Factors Driving Buy to Let - Migration

The biggest factor driving population growth is net inward migration into the UK with anywhere up to 500,000 new immigrants coming into Britain every year. And for them renting is the natural default option.
And despite the government sounding a tougher note on this recently, I can't see it stopping any time soon because economists have said it keeps inflation down by as much as between ½ and 1 per cent. And that’s an important thing for the Government – of whatever political hue.