LendInvest releases Buy-to-Let Index

Peer-to-peer platform LendInvest has published an interactive Buy-to-Let Index.

The LendInvest Buy-to-Let Index (LIBTLI) uses recent asking price sales data to provide a snapshot of the UK property market.

The first month’s report features Buy-to-Let (BTL) performance indicators including a rental yield map, capital gain, total ROI and a house price index.

To produce the LendInvest Buy-To-Let Index, LendInvest’s data science team have done an analysis of the market, using nearly 1 million price points snapshotted for October, covering the whole of the UK.

The data for the LendInvest Buy-To-Let Index uses data from Zoopla and historical data from Land Registry.

The report is broken down into separate interactive diagrams detailing rental yield, capital gains, total return on investment (ROI) and the House Price Index at the Outcode level, disaggregated by number of bedrooms.

LendInvest CEO, Christian Faes, said: “The LendInvest Buy-To-Let Index is consistent with our whole ethos at LendInvest - providing investors with quality information, and bringing transparency to what is often an opaque market.

"We're aiming to provide investors, on both sides of our peer-to-peer marketplace, with as much information as possible on the UK BTL market. We are keen to ensure that both our borrowers and our lenders are making sensible and informed investment decisions.

"The LendInvest Buy-To-Let Index shows that BTL property is not always a great investment. There are many postcodes across the country that have experienced negative capital gains.”