How cultural changes are driving the buy-to-let market

Over the past few years, landlords have embraced buy-to-let as an investment opportunity, but it hasn't always been that way. In the past, the idea that a British man's home was his castle, and Margaret Thatcher's right-to-buy scheme added to a general attitude that owning your own property was something everyone should, and could, aspire to. Over the last two to three years in particular, however, economics have combined with social policies to create an environment that has made renting a more culturally acceptable lifestyle choice. Demographic trends have played a major role in ...