Buy-to-let market update: October 2025
Welcome to ‘Buy-to-Let Market’, a column aimed at providing you with recent criteria and product updates within the buy-to-let lending markets. The information within this article is correct as at 25/09/2025.
It is now just over a week since John Healey announced savage tax hikes for landlords. Here our chief executive Ben Beadle explains what this will mean for the sector and what we are doing to challenge it.
Welcome to ‘Buy-to-Let Market’, a column aimed at providing you with recent criteria and product updates within the buy-to-let lending markets. The information within this article is correct as at 25/09/2025.
The NRLA has added its voice to calls to reverse the freeze on Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates, signing a joint letter to the Prime Minister with other industry leaders. We have joined forces with the Chartered Institute for Housing (CIH), the National Housing Federation (NHF) and homelessness charities including Crisis and Shelter to send the letter, asking for LHA rates to be restored to at least the 30th percentile from next year.
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