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Buy-to-let

Meaning in real estate, with examples

nounCommon term

In real estate, buy-to-let means: Buying a property in order to rent it out to tenants, or a property bought for this purpose.

In Turkish: kiraya vermek için satın alma, kira amaçlı yatırım

How it is used

British English; Americans say rental property or investment property. There are special buy-to-let mortgages, which usually need a bigger deposit and are assessed on the expected rent. Buy-to-let landlords are a large part of the UK rental market.

Example sentences

  1. She owns three buy-to-let flats near the university.

  2. Buy-to-let mortgages usually require a larger deposit than ordinary home loans.

Common collocations

  • buy-to-let mortgage
  • buy-to-let property
  • buy-to-let landlord
  • buy-to-let investor
  • rental yieldThe yearly rent from a property shown as a percentage of its price or value. A home worth 200,000 that earns 10,000 a year has a 5% gross yield.
  • landlordA person or company that owns a property and rents it out to someone else in return for regular payments.
  • stamp dutyA tax paid in England and Northern Ireland by people who buy property or land above a certain price. Its full name is Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT).
  • portfolioAll the properties owned or managed by one investor, company or fund, considered together.

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