{"id":103849,"date":"2026-08-15T01:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/103849\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T01:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:21:16","slug":"overseas-owners-slow-sales-of-uk-property-amid-tax-changes-research-finds-the-intermediary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/103849\/","title":{"rendered":"Overseas owners slow sales of UK property amid tax changes, research finds &#8211; The Intermediary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"astor-article-standfirst\">16,520 UK residential properties were sold by overseas individuals in the year to 5th April 2026, down from 18,100 the year before, according to Bowmore Wealth Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sales of UK prime residential properties by overseas owners slowed down, according to research by Bowmore Wealth Group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">16,520 UK residential properties were sold by overseas individuals in the year to 5th April 2026, down from 18,100 the year before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Data from HMRC provided for Bowmore showed 70 wealthy overseas individuals sold UK residential properties worth more than \u00a35m, compared to 80 in the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bowmore said rising tax on buy-to-let (BTL) investment has made UK residential property less appealing to overseas and UK investors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Floyd, head of private clients at Bowmore Financial Planning, said: \u201cIt appears to be a period of readjustment for UK and overseas owners of UK property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cResidential property, as an asset class, is having to face a number of challenges.<\/p>\n<p>National Mortgage Awards &#8211; Second Charge<\/p>\n<p class=\"astor-newsletter-headline\">Get your votes in for the best of the best in the second charge market!<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"astor-newsletter-cta\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalmortgageawards.com\/nominate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">VOTE NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Renters\u2019 Rights Act is just that the latest catalyst that encouraged investors to reduce their exposure to residential property in favour of equities or short-term bonds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flloyd added: \u201cNet yields on rental property in London are around 2% and over the decade UK house prices have fallen or stagnated in real terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen you can get a risk free 4.6% on a five year Government bond it makes the net yields on residential property look very low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThose low net yields on buy-to-let property were justifiable when property prices were roaring away but not now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said: \u201cThe administrative burden of being a landlord, as opposed to being a stock market investor, have always been quite onerous and the new Renters\u2019 Rights Act has added an extra level of uncertainty into being a landlord.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"16,520 UK residential properties were sold by overseas individuals in the year to 5th April 2026, down from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[43624,2607,43625,5353,43626,1188,5,6],"class_list":["post-103849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-bowmore-wealth-group","tag-hmrc","tag-overseas-owners","tag-prime-property","tag-property-sales","tag-research","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117096905770711636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}