Buy-to-let hotspots revealed

For those landlords that are swayed by where the buy-to-let 'hot money' is going Barclays have very kindly released there annual 'hotspot' top 20.  Based on a survey of 5000 landlords it is a limited but interesting insight on what is going on in the wider investment market.  I particularly like the average rental figures which come directly from a buy-to-let application giving them a realism that much rental data I have seen lacks.  For more data on average rents have a look at the index of private housing rental prices compiled by the ONS.

Rank (by volume of Barclays completed buy-to-let properties) Q1-Q2		Town	Average rent (of Barclays Mortgages completed buy-to-let properties) Q1-Q2 2015
2015	2014
1	1	LONDON	£1,900
2	7	BIRMINGHAM	£766
3	3	BRISTOL	£877
4	17	NOTTINGHAM	£639
5	18	MANCHESTER	£693
6	13	READING	£1,169
7	47	LEEDS	£703
8	6	SOUTHAMPTON	£1,067
9	50	PETERBOROUGH	£649
10	19	SLOUGH	£1,045
11	48	GLASGOW	£601
12	5	ILFORD	£1,252
13	4	HARROW	£1,402
14	35	EDINBURGH	£923
15	8	CROYDON	£1,262
16	212	PLYMOUTH	£808
17	12	ENFIELD	£1,268
18	79	SWINDON	£681
19	62	LUTON	£754
20	28	MILTON KEYNES	£873