Last Saturday marked 15 years to the day since the Association of Residential Lettings Agents coined the phrase 'buy-to-let'. The term was dreamt up to describe an innovative fast-track route to property investment in which any duffer with access to a deposit – and in some cases, not even that – could finance the purchase of property and allow a tenant to pay the mortgage.
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