Buy-to-let Index launches; shows that ‘BTL is not always a great investment’

Institutional and professional investors will from today be able to track detailed rental pricing trends with the help of a new index, compiled in conjunction with an economist from the LSE.

The number of home-mover, remortgage and buy-to-let lending picked up in December, reports UK Finance.

"The face of the Private Rented Sector is changing rapidly," says Knight Frank, as large-scale investors go big on the now-established asset class.