Hello Mr and Mrs Wilson, ex-maths teachers and Ashford, Kent's uber-landlords, with 700 houses, and a new one purchased every week. They were featured in Saturday's Guardian, in a piece that had to quote estate agents anonymously (they were fearful of annoying the powerful couple). The Wilsons buy blocks of property in new developments off-plan, and then rent them out, making life extremely difficult for first-time buyers. I wonder why, when it's the same buyers doing this it's hard to swallow. And yet - from the perspective the ftb - it doesn't matter whether it's one landlord or twenty, the effect is the same. Possibly because the Wilsons are approaching billionaire status. Anyway, read the piece here.