Brian Coulton

Escalating trade tensions and the slump in global manufacturing will continue to depress emerging market growth even as global central...

Once the go-to choice for canny investors, the shine has come off the buy-to-let market over recent years. Intervention by the government, introducing changes to the tax breaks available to landlords and hiking up the stamp duty charge, has taken its toll. Lending criteria has been tightened up and additional red-tape measures including more onerous health and safety rules and licensing requirements have added to the administrative burden.