677% Return for Aylesbury Buy To Let landlords since 1999

Buy to let is essentially different from investing in stocks and shares or putting money in the Building Society. Whilst these other investments (Building Society Passbooks, Stocks and Shares etc.) are passive i.e. once the money has been invested you leave it alone, with buy to let, things are more hands on, in fact it’s almost a business. One thing the landlords I speak to say is that they like buy to let because it is both an investment as well as a business. It is this factor that attracts many of my Aylesbury landlords – they are making their own decisions rather than entrusting them to others (such as City Whiz Kids in London playing roulette with their Pension Pot).

So if you are investing in the Aylesbury property market, you can earn from your investment in two ways. When a property increases in value over time, it is known as 'capital growth'. Capital growth, also known as capital appreciation, has been strong in recent times in Aylesbury, but the value of property does go up as well as down just like shares can do but the initial purchase price rarely decreases.  Rental income is what the tenant pays you - hopefully this will grow over time . If you decide the annual rent into the value (or purchase price) of the property, this is your yield, or annual return.

I was talking to a landlord who bought a semi-detached house in the Winterton Drive area of Aylesbury. He bought a very pleasant 3 bed semi-detached in 1999 for £98,000. It sold again in December just gone for £263,950, a rise of 169.33% in just under 16 years - a compound annual return of 6.39%. 

However, the real returns are for those Aylesbury landlords who borrowed money to purchase their buy to let property. They have made significantly higher returns than those who paid 100% cash. If the landlord had borrowed 75% of the £98,000 purchase price of the Winterton Drive semi-detached house on an interest only 75% mortgage, he would have only needed to invest £24,500 (as his 25% deposit.. borrowing the remaining £73,500), but his £24,500 would be worth today, £190,450  (£263,950 less £73,500 interest only mortgage) ... a rise of 677.3% - a compound annual return of 13.67%...and I haven't even mentioned the rent he would of received in those 16 years!

This demonstrates how the Aylesbury buy to let market has not only provided very strong returns for average investors since 1999 but how it has permitted a group of motivated buy to let Aylesbury landlords to benefit particularly. In fact, if this landlord had continued to remortgage the property as it went up in value, he could by our reckoning have had an additional two or three properties (albeit with larger mortgages but greater future potential).

As my article mentioned a few weeks ago, more and more Aylesbury people may be giving up on owning their own home and are instead accepting long term renting whilst buy to let lending continues to grow from strength to strength. If you want to know what would and would not make a good property to buy in Aylesbury for buy to let, then one place for such information would be the Aylesbury Property Blog. Contact me to discuss your needs or plans ian@mortimersaylesbury.co.uk