KEYNOTE: The "Rental Supply Strike" and Investment in the Post-Renters' Rights Act Landscape
Details:
The Exodus is Real. The the hard data from 2025, such as the estimated 93,000 buy-to-let landlords who exited the market and the doubling of HMRC CGT receipts.
The Unintended Consequences: How the abolition of Section 21 and the move to open-ended tenancies have forced landlords to pre-emptively sell, ironically driving up homelessness figures.
The Build-to-Rent (BTR) Failure: THe myth that corporate landlords will fill the void. How BTR construction has plummeted due to delays from the Building Safety Regulator.
The Takeaway for Investors: How surviving this landscape requires professionalizing portfolios to cater to inelastic demand, managing the looming EPC cliff edge, and utilizing active management to convert rising nominal yields into realized cash flow. Just how many deals are on the table right now because of an imbalance between selling/listings and buying demand, especially in selective niches.
Adam Lawrence presents.
Speaker Profiles
Founder | Propenomix
Adam Lawrence's corporate career was in Wealth Management for boutique investment firms in Switzerland and also included a role as a cross-business consultant for one of the UK’s top 10 lenders. He also ran a betting syndicate for 5 years between 2006 and 2010.
Adam’s property career started in earnest in 2011 and since then he has been involved in over 550 UK properties, from flats purchased for £23k to portfolios of 91 properties at a time, and everything in between. The goal has been to buy at good value, add value, and then refinance and hold on - there has been some development, and sale, along the way but 90% has been to retain.
Interesting fact - he once defeated “Egghead” C.J. De Mooi in the tv quiz show “Revenge of the Egghead” (season 1 episode 29 if anyone wants to find it!).