Times: Buy to let or to fret?

With these dark clouds on the horizon, is buy-to-let investment still a good idea? The experts say that there remains money to be made, but there are dangers. Strong competition among lenders has provided an array of low-rate deals. Among them is Chelsea Building Society’s 4.99 per cent loan with a flat fee of 2.5 per cent, which is added to the cost of the mortgage. This sounds like a large additional cost but Mr Grandlin says that landlords should pass on the fee to tenants by adding it to the rent. “This is a great way of being able to buy a property now,” he says