Merryn Somerset Webb
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Yeah.
And you could also get interest only mortgages, couldn't you, in the buy to let business even then?
Yeah.
So you could put down a small deposit, uh, huge leverage, and then rely on paying an interest only mortgage off from the yield, and then assuming that inflation would mean that the remaining mortgage was worthless or negligible thirty years after that.
So
The way you say that suggests that over time, the majority of the return to investors and buy to let has been from capital gains.
But looking at the report, that's not what you say at all.
You say something completely different that the majority of the long term return has been from rental income.
Yeah, because initially you were saying about the very fast house price growth in the in the late nineteen nineties and and two th early two thousands.
At that point, for a lot of people it didn't really matter if you had positive cash flow.
You only had to break even.
I only had to break even and nothing else really mattered because the capital gains made all the difference.
Yeah.
Well, we'll come on to how and why that's switched in a minute.
I just wanted to ask you about there's a wonderful chart in the re in the report.
We'll put it in the show notes, a link to the report, uh, which suggests that every one pound invested in nineteen ninety six is worth uh twenty two pounds and thirtyp today.
It's absolutely marvelous.
So it outperforms absolutely everything.
But what are the assumptions in there that assumes what level of deposit, what level of loan, et cetera?
How does how does that work?
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