Buy-to-let landlords will have to hike rents because of higher mortgage stress tests, MPs told

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Affordability tests combined with increasing mortgage rates are leaving landlords facing higher bills they will be likely to pass on to tenants, industry experts warn

Landlords are being hit the hardest by increased stress tests and interest rate hikes, experts told MPs on the Treasury Select Committee.

It used to be the case that lenders had to stress-test a person for 3 per cent above whatever mortgage rate they were applying for, but earlier this year this rule was scrapped. The Treasury Committee held a session with members of the mortgage industry to ask questions about the functioning of the market.

 

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