North West England has overtaken London and the South East as the most popular region for buy-to-let investors.
An analysis of official figures by Savills, the property agent, for The Times shows that there were 8,279 sales of properties to landlords with buy-to-let mortgages last year in northwestern England.
It is the first time that the region has overtaken London, which had 8,263 sales, and southeastern England, where there were 8,009.
