Hendren Global Group: The True Cost of Being a Landlord

The word 'let' means 'easy' in Danish but anyone who has dabbled in the private property rental market will testify that it can be anything but that. And now, the ability to tell social housing tenants from those who fund their rents entirely by themselves has become impossible.

In addition to founding a social housing Real Estate Investment Trust, I have maintained a substantial buy to let portfolio for almost 20 years. Recently, I read with trepidation national media coverage which boasted confident predictions regarding the rates of return from buy to let investments -authoritatively waxing lyrically about 6% returns. In my experience, that figure is wholly unrealistic and scarce attention has been given to the risks and realities of being a private buy to let landlord.