How do landlords selling up impact the rental market?

[Rispa42]

Genuinely curious because it’s been said that one of the reasons the rental market is heating up is because BTL landlords are selling up, and therefore leading to an imbalance between supply and demand. However, if they sell, they’d either sell to another landlord (therefore not impacting supply) or to a FTB who was previously renting (therefore reducing ‘demand’). What am I missing?

@YouHaveAnArse one tenant is buying from a house he has in France another parents is buying him one the other tenant can buy with the discount I’ve given and the latter is moving away anyway. What can I do ? I did what I did it worked out ok lobby your MP stand up for what you want of course I’m going to pass on generational wealth to my son as would anyone

I don't understand your post, but will say that lobbying MPs is not very useful when many of them are landlords themselves...while one would hope they listen to what their constituents need (and the many threads on Twitter about the state of social housing in London make me wonder) it's not in their interests for the system to change.

Tenants will go to emergency housing, Travelodge