{
  "id": 1486941,
  "title": "Buy-to-let investors use faltering property market to haggle £50,000 discounts off homes",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/buy-to-let-investors-use-faltering-property-market-to-haggle-50-000",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-17T13:05:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Is Money",
    "slug": "this-is-money",
    "url": "https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/buytolet/article-16057851/Buy-let-investors-use-faltering-property-market-haggle-50-000-discounts-homes.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Buy-to-let investors are capitalising on the faltering property market to drive a hard bargain and snap up deals, estate agent Hamptons has revealed.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}