Government makes regular checks on how many landlords raise rents

Section 24, EICRs, waste of time and money council licences, and now to really try and kill everything off the Renters Reform Bill (not landlords of course; it’s only about renters).

Well ‘Here’s looking at you kid’. You can blame yourselves with all of that, and rent freezes and eviction bans.

Then we have that angry backwards uneducated gym slip mum. The benefit claiming ginger person with her gutter mouth calling another MP scum in parliament looking to take over from the treacherous ‘can’t trust a word he says’ backing stabbing Gove.

Mmmm……Do I want to be a this party? Or shall I go somewhere better?

It's surprising average rent rises have been so low. The inflation rate was higher for a large part of the quoted period. Even Social rents were increased by 7% in April but it was only that low because the government prevented the usual inflation linked increase.

The tax system is dire and a major disincentive to people entering the industry. Huge SDLT, tax on turnover and 28% CGT when you sell. Very cautious lending criteria with incredibly onerous stress testing and falling property values. Maybe licensing or a non paying tenant. No wonder people aren't rushing to become landlords when better returns can be obtained from an interest bearing bank account.

Simply put Scrap The Renters Reform Bill that’s caused all this.The Government don’t need to move a limb to know how much Rents are rising, just look at your tablet and check what extra Sanctions and requirements you imposed during the year on landlords, you should know the extra burden you have put in place.
Levelling up Committee says 24’000, were Served S.21 and due Council’s help. There’s the proof of the Damage, Cost to Council’s and Homelessness the RRB has caused otherwise it would be a fraction of this figure. Hence the real reason the Council’s and Government wants rid of S.21 and not the landlords fault at all.
The Tenants will miss their S.21 for sure as the new Section 8 excludes this Requirement and Council’s no longer have a duty to House them following eviction, (any pennies dropping yet).

I have not been putting my rents up for years, but last year I did, and this year I have and next year I will 💵💵 Until I sell 🎉🎉 Let the chips fall where they will, this is not our doing. Those poor tenants ☠️ ⛪️

My Rents are so much below the market but this has to change due all extra costs imposed. Also a house vacant at a time when it was never more needed but too scared to let it because of THE RENTERS REFORM BILL.

Slightly off this thread but I have wondered the following for some time. Why should a property, being purchased by a landlord for permanent residency by a tenant, attract the same level of tax, and be classed as, a ‘second home’?

A couple of my buy to lets are in a very sleepy town where the market is very slow and I often have a room or two to let. But this year I've recently found myself turning a stream of people away who are desperate for somewhere to live, and that's even after I've gradually raised rents to cover increasing costs.

With 5 years of a Labour government looking increasingly likely, by 2029 the PRS will hardly exist. They forget there are other ways to invest hard earned savings & we are not a public service to be demonised & exploited. Social housing is badly run & underfunded so the prospect of mass homelessness in the near future is inevitable. Narrow minded pressure groups & misguided politicians will be entirely to blame!

Yes House Martin. I should be sacred of Renters Reform Bill designed to Collapse the Market & Create Homelessness and succeeding very well at the moment. I fear loss of Rent far less than a Sitting Tenant.
I am surprised you mentioned selling as an option which it is not that is getting rid of you, like the scrappage Scheme (just scrap ur van collect £7k for nothing stop working & Mr Khan think it a good idea) you are out then pay 28% c/gains just to reduce the value of your Estate, then when you die pay another 40% inheritance tax, so was it ever worth buying the House in the first place. What does it matter if it’s vacant and paying c/tax or they have double c/tax on
empty property. Mr Hunt a medical man an excuse for a Chancellor will be loosing more than he gains, he won’t be getting 45% of the income tax on money I didn’t get.

Greg Tsuman, president of ARLA Propertymark, says: “The rental market is clearly in the depths of a crisis . . . the main issue, however, is that the Treasury seems to be overlooking the fact that it is eating the golden goose with the current tax structure imposed on private landlords."

Ben Beadle of the NRLA says, ". . . . . . . . . "