Why the long face?" the pub landlord asked the racehorse in one of the cornier Christmas cracker jokes from my youth. Last month, that horse might have turned the question on a bevy of depressed landlords. Buy-to-let (BTL) landlords, that is. They were among hundreds of delegates who packed the Institution of Civil Engineers' Westminster citadel for Paragon's annual Great Buy to Let Debate on 28 February. They ranged from what have been termed 'amateur" residential investors, through corporate portfolio owners to the great and the good of the property and lending worlds. And yes, a measuring tape would have confirmed that most faces were approaching the length of Red Rum's.
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