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Letting income ‘supplements day job earnings’ for half of landlords

New research for Precise Mortgages shows more than half (52%) of landlords use letting income to boost earnings from a full-time job. The findings highlight the need for lenders to offer top slicing to help more customers achieve greater flexibility on buy to let products and loan size.

The study found that even among landlords with bigger portfolios, many are still working full-time and have other earnings beyond letting income. Around 32% of those with 11 to 19 properties say letting income supplements day job earnings while 18% of those with 20-plus properties have other income in addition to rental earnings.

Precise Mortgages has enhanced its top slicing feature, which enables customers to use surplus portfolio or earned disposable income to prove they can meet any financial stresses on a new loan application rather than through the rental income of the property alone. It is now accepting top slicing on all eligible personal ownership, limited company, portfolio, HMO, and holiday and student let applications. First-time buyers are excluded.

Across the market as a whole one in three (33%) landlords earn their living purely from their property portfolios, rising to 47% among those with six to 10 properties. Around one in six (16%) landlords plan to add more properties in the year ahead with 71% funding purchases with a buy to let mortgage.

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