{"id":1149267,"date":"2026-08-15T02:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1149267\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T02:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:50:23","slug":"overseas-owners-slow-sales-of-uk-property-amid-tax-changes-research-finds-the-intermediary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1149267\/","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":1149268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[312537,748,393,4884,1016,1144,312538,223963,13317,2343,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-1149267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-bowmore-wealth-group","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-hmrc","tag-northern-ireland","tag-overseas-owners","tag-prime-property","tag-property-sales","tag-research","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117097255943854623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1149268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}