Indeed, although providing a character reference for a rental does reveal going into a rental. It's crass to ask for someone's details to be pasted on MN even if I had these. Much can be deduced from stamp duty thresholds and price reductions from sales of that area. The trouble is people can't see past their noses yet wish for what is beyond their little sums. Lower end priced housing is also behaviourally more susceptible to overpricing.
Back to the thread, US 30-year mortgages are at 7%, inflation 3% and base rate 5.25%. Our SVR is below their 30-year rate, inflation 8% and base 5%. Our major retail lenders have been stress tested to 17% inflation, 30% house price falls and 8% unemployment. Banks are sound and ready to go, public sector pay rises will be unfunded which mean productivity increases. Go figure, or not, which seems to be the preferred option. Of course we will all get through this, at least we're not sending people to war, but the cost of war cannot be avoided.
BTL is escaping to plentiful better pastures. The lower end of the housing market will still attract people with the room to buy less if they're prepared to overpay, while the upper end and middle prices will decrease much faster. So lower end sellers may attract buyers who can afford due to looking there instead of where they would have looked when free money was cheaper. They may be overpriced but not as much as before, depending on how much buyers are prepared to be idiots.