{"id":86502,"date":"2026-03-16T20:05:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86502"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:05:28","slug":"how-george-osborne-killed-buy-to-let","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/16\/how-george-osborne-killed-buy-to-let\/","title":{"rendered":"How George Osborne killed buy-to-let"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1YItYz.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6&amp;x=326&amp;y=207&amp;s=368&amp;d=368\" alt=\"Illustration: George Osborne\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the 2010s, buy-to-let was soaring. Bricks and mortar were seen as a safe and sustainable place to invest a retirement nest egg, and landlords built\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/how-george-osborne-killed-buy-to-let\/ar-AA1YIVXj?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69b838a42bbc43bcbc25e9b0cb0a18b8&amp;cvpid=a7cbadfd112e4d45bf3d5c57916bd8cf&amp;ei=60\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In the 2010s, buy-to-let was soaring. Bricks and mortar were seen as a safe and sustainable place to invest a retirement nest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/George-Osborne-buy-to-let.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86505,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86502\/revisions\/86505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}