{"id":77424,"date":"2018-01-20T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-uks-capital-of-right-to-buy-to-let-landlords\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T14:03:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T07:03:29","slug":"the-uks-capital-of-right-to-buy-to-let-landlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-uks-capital-of-right-to-buy-to-let-landlords\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK\u2019s capital of \u2018right-to-buy-to-let\u2019 landlords"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMore council houses have been sold to private landlords in the town than anywhere else \u2013 then rented at up to triple the priceThe floor in Elina Apse\u2019s house on the Netherfield council estate in Milton Keynes is so cold that when one of her four children spills anything it freezes by the morning. She cannot phone the council to complain because she is renting from one of the town\u2019s many private landlords, who have taken advantage of the right-to-buy policy to hoover up social housing and turn them into highly profitable rental investments.\u201cI would love a place I could call home \u2013 this is just a house to me. When we first moved in we put a lot of effort into making it nice but my landlord could give us a section 21 notice and we would be out in a couple of months,\u201d she says, curled up on a small couch in her sitting room to keep warm. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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