The pro-tenant anti-landlord Renters Reform Bill has at last been published by the government which first promised it in 2019.
It has a series of pledges to court favour with renters - it will be harder to evict tenants, easier for renters to have pets, a Decent Homes Standard will be introduced, and landlords will have to join a mandatory Ombudsman scheme.
The government says 11m tenants across England will benefit from “safer, fairer and higher quality homes thanks to a once-in-a-generation overhaul of housing laws.”
The Renters’ (Reform) Bill, introduced to Parliament today, delivers the Tories’ 2019 manifesto commitment to abolish section 21 evictions which will - in the government’s words - “empower renters to challenge poor landlords without fear of losing their home. “
The new Bill also claims to “protect” over two million landlords, making it easier for them to recover properties when they need to – so they can sell their property if they want to, move in a close family member, or when tenants wilfully do not pay rent.
Notice periods will also be reduced where tenants have been irresponsible – for example breaching their tenancy agreement or causing damage to the property.
The government launch statement says the reforms “will strengthen powers to evict anti-social tenants, broadening the disruptive and harmful activities that can lead to eviction and making it quicker to evict a tenant acting anti-socially.”
There will also be a “reformed courts process … for the minority of evictions that do end up in the courts, more of the process will be digitised – reducing delays.”
A new mandatory Ombudsman for landlords will be introduced while a new digital Property Portal will list landlords’ obligations “and help tenants make better decisions when signing a new tenancy agreement.”
Housing Secretary Michael Gove says: “Too many renters are living in damp, unsafe, cold homes, powerless to put things right, and with the threat of sudden eviction hanging over them.
“This government is determined to tackle these injustices by offering a New Deal to those living in the Private Rented Sector; one with quality, affordability, and fairness at its heart.
“Our new laws introduced to Parliament today will support the vast majority of responsible landlords who provide quality homes to their tenants, while delivering our manifesto commitment to abolish Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions.
“This will ensure that everyone can live somewhere which is decent, safe and secure – a place they’re truly proud to call home.”
Tenants will also be given the legal right to request a pet in their home, which the landlord must consider and cannot unreasonably refuse.
Landlords will be able to require pet insurance to cover any damage to their property.
The government will also bring forward legislation as part of the Bill to:
- apply the Decent Homes Standard to the private rented sector for the first time;
- make it illegal for landlords and agents to have blanket bans on renting to tenants in receipt of benefits or with children:
- strengthen councils’ enforcement powers and introduce a new requirement for councils to report on enforcement activity.
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If the landlord protections are true and can be enacted quickly, fair enough.. I suspect however red tape land the lack of resources will mean these so called protections will be meaningless.
Landlords will be able to require pet insurance, so, yet another cost. A good number of BTL mortgage terms will need to be fully re written plus for those with leasehold flats, it’ll mostly be a firm no witt no consideration to allow pets.
Is this not more that a Landlord can require to see Pet Insurance in place rather than something the Landlord has to pay for?
If this is the case, then I am going to insist that Tenants have their own contents insurance from now ......
How on earth can you police ensuring that the tenant has pet insurance in place - ask them for a copy each year - and what happens if they do not produce it - this will be hell to police. So I get 45 applications for last house I advertised - and I pick someone with a lifestyle that does not allow them to incorporate a pet........and it will be interesting to see what policies are out there and what the exclusions are for damage claims!???
This is how our society is, lots of problems unsolved but put pets as priority over human being. When dogs attack people in the park, excrements in the street, lack of food supply in the world, and our government is talking about pets in the reform bill. Too much legislation and absolutely not necessary. Free trade is what we need and all other rules apply in common law. We don't need so many officials to brain storm basic rules of right and wrong. They all should be locked up to brain storm how to bring up the economy
Surely the tenants need to get the pet insurance. However, it will be difficult to monitor as they can cancel anytime, if they do not pay subscriptions.
I can't see how pet insurance would work. The tenant doesn't need the insurance as he is not paying for the repairs. The landlord can't have the insurance as it's not his pet. The insurance company won't pay the landlord as the policy is with the tenant. The insurance company will argue the damage is wear and tear so not covered by the policy. It would just be too difficult.
I am just increasing my rents as much as I can to try and cover future issues, not only for pets but possible rent controls and who knows what else is coming along!
pet rent, then atleast we have the money already in our bank accounts to fund the repairs
Does anyone honestly believe that this incompetent government would put together a just and speedy court system? Laughable.
There will be more misfit tenants benefitting from this bill than misfit landlords being punished, that is for sure. Misfit landlords that break the law now, won't stop and if they need possession they won't comply with this these idiotic laws. No, it will be the good, law-abidding landlords that will suffer as usual.
Good tenants don't need this garbage bill because there's absolutely no benefit to a landlord in serving a section 21 to such a good tenant. Section 21s are served to the bad tenants that either don't pay or act like scumbags. This bill will make life great for them.
So, if it doesn't help good tenants, but only bad ones, yet doesn't really affect bad landlords, but only good ones, this seems counterproductive. It's odd that this governments views the haves as being the ones more likely to be in the wrong than the have nots. What a loser's mentality this government has, no wonder this country is going to sh:t.
The new legislation and the other measures introduced by the Conservative Party re stamp duty, interest etc, have meant a large reduction in available properties. This has had the effect of massively increasing rents. Little new housing has replaced the loss. Labour will inevitably introduce rent controls and other tenant security measures. With all the HMO and selective licensing introduced all properties have already to have to comply to a standard set by the local council. This measure which is purely political will have no effect on the forthcoming election. As the majority of tenants will vote to secure rent controls and other pro tenant measures. What is happening in Wales and Scotland will be implemented in two years in England. Mr Stamer will then state what he has done to reduce tenants costs in this cost of living crisis. With the possibility of higher stamp duty and 40% capital gains, it’s fairly obvious unless your portfolio is in a company format, reduce the amount of properties you have.
Selling everything off as we speak.
I wouldn’t just blame the Tories, we’ve have this and more in Scotland for a while now. The Scot Gov aka the SNP/Greens are wrecking the PRS and exacerbating homelessness in the name of political gain. Yes, I know it doesn’t make any sense! We’ve been trying to tell them that fir years.
PS … not sure Labour will do any of us any favours either!!
The only good news from Goves latest measures re pets is, we are not being asked to buy a pet for the tenants, this could be another idea for Ms Nandy to add to her burgeoning list of proposals.
We'll probably have to walk the dog and feed it when they go on holiday though...
😂😂
Yep. U like tenants have a dog the place STINKS- dirty when she goes it will need a total redecor new carpets and a fumigation. And who’s going to pay. One guess. I’ve got a dog and my house AINT like this inside. I cant stay inside its that bad. And I need to upgrade the epc now to -C. Will she say cheers. Not a chance.
As said above the this will help only bad tenants.
I don’t trust any of the ‘good stuff’ about tenants wilfully damaging property and reformed court systems etc. it will all be about the burden of proof. I’ve had lots of incidents with my tenants. Door and window handles breaking. Bits of kitchen falling off like doors.
Lots of legal aid lined up for tenants too… or a lefty Ombudsman who will favour the tenant.
Landlords will no longer be in control which is not acceptable.
Michael Groves talks about, ‘This government is determined to tackle these injustices…’ while ignoring the main injustice in Housing, not having not only having an affordable home, but any home. For this, Groves would have to tackle the planning system and the greenbelt policy. Instead of focusing on their own ineptitude in being unable to provide sufficient housing they again blame landlords. To a shrinking market, 2 1/2% of landlords have left the private rented sector in the last year. The government brings on what is for landlords, these very unpopular and feared changes. It is clear that more landlords will leave the sector, making it far more difficult for tenants to find accommodation.
As for the abolition of section 21, as a large landlord and I have been in the business for over 30 years, I have never had to use section 21. I like most landlords only evict for fault which is always rent arrears. I have never had to use the antisocial grounds as all my anti-social tenants do not believe in paying their rent. What we will see is an increase in evictions for rent arrears which I suspect is why most landlords used section 21. Evicting for rent arrears is far quicker than going down the section 21 route and for me has always been relatively trouble-free.
The other changes, I do not think are going to make very much difference for me, we will have to see, so I am celebrating! Why? what do we as landlords want? Less competition? Difficulty in finding tenants makes us landlords have to be a lot more professional, not a shrinking market and loads of legislation. The demand for HMOs will only increase. HMOs are largely the product of the shortage of housing, and this is what this insane legislation will create.
Jim Haliburton,
The HMO, daddy.
HMOs, B&Bs and Cheap End Hotels.
These will be the big beneficiaries of this new Bill.
LLs are already selling up in their droves and this Bill will only accelerate this.
Only 10% of PRS LL Property sales are actually going to other PRS LLs
So a Massive 90% will not be returning to the PRS Rental Market.
So where do Government and Councils put all these families? B&Bs / Cheap Hotels.
Another thought on this is, Who is going to pay for all these B&Bs / Cheap Hotels?
It will firmly fall at the feet of the Tax and Councils Tax payers.
So as the first tranche of properties being sold off are those of antisocial tenants etc the Hard Working Tax payers of this country will be paying these costs.
No point in selling off one a year for Capital Gains reasons because the Government have Chopped into that so PRS LLs are now selling up at an even faster rate.
Councils simply don’t have properties and are not building properties for “Council Tenants” and are not building anything like the requirements.
So now that the government and councils have managed to massively reduce and continue to reduce the properties available what do they do now.
Best of luck with that one then.
I am constantly having local councils contact me begging for properties.
I did that once but never again.
In fact I will never rerent another property to anyone ever again. IF a property becomes empty it will be sold, no ifs or buts.
The Government and Councils have made their beds now they will have to lye on it.
Well done for totally messing up a system that worked very well but will no longer be an option.
yep all correct and just as proof a 3 bedroom main door modern HMO flat was recently let within 2 weeks to 5 Students which is near Glasgow University and the rent was £3500 per month and before HMO's were invented in Scotland a private owner would have been luck to obtain £1000 per month...you could not make it up but the Scottish Gov did
A group of 4 students have just offered me £3000 per month for my top HMO flat very near Glasgow University, so I am currently very happy with the loony SNP and their little Green helpers and how their interference in the PRS gas helped rents to soar, although they will probably not be so happy with me!
Seems like abolishing fixed term contracts might have been removed.
I can’t see it mentioned either.
I heard that too. So can anyone tell me would it be possible to put all my tenants on for example as an idea to issue a new tenant with a 6 month fixed term contract - and if that goes ok as a tester period issue a fixed term 12 month contract and then another - therefore at least preserving some measure of right of tenure? Sorry if I am missing something - like all of us on here I am mulling over what this legislation will mean for us and how it can be managed if at all - and if not sell
They automatically renew lol.
Where have you all seen the information about fixed term contracts remaining?
The Bill abolishes fixed term contracts I am afraid.
TBH I don't see the relevance. We have fixed term now. They automatically turn into periodic unless we agree to sign a new AST. If they don't go before the end of the fixed term a S21 needs to be served, probably apply to court a bailiffs anyway (as will be more common). They will also make 'S21' weaker in the reform bill to the point that it doesn't exist.
I doubt they would allow fixed terms, where at the end the property owner could actually shock horror get their own property back!
The Bill has been published, and fixed term contracts have been abolished.
Owners don't seem to have any rights and therefore I would imagine most won't be prepared to let their properties.
That's exactly the way I feel Ellie. And what I am doing.
Thinking about buying a crappy hotel someone to house the asylum seekers though!
That's a good idea Nick.
I am not sure if lets to asylum seekers are excluded from the legislation anyway i.e. that you could let your house/s to them through the relevant housing association and get them back at some point. I'll see what it says in the bill.
I'm not sure I would want to chance it anyway Ellie. May never get the government out!
I saw it on a different website first thing this morning.
Seems they were wrong anyway:
h t t p s : / / bills.parliament.uk/bills/3462
You are right about that Nick, and also the rights of asylum seekers could change from those of a licensee to those of an assured tenant if they obtained settled status here. I don't know. I just agree with you that there could be a risk.
Ellie, I'm not sure a tenant (council / HA or govt) could grant greater security of tenure rights greater than their own. But who knows!
If one were to enter into a Rent to Rent agreement with one of those dodgy companies for a fixed term "company let", then I think the tenants (if they weren't company employees) would have the rights of a tenant, not a licensee, so there is always a risk - and under new legislation could stay forever.
It depends on what rights sub-tenants may have in the future, I suppose.
Agree.
And what's the position with student lettings now, I wonder.
I am sure Ben Beadle has that all sorted for himself.
It says in relation to student accommodation in the Bill:
Amendments of Ground 4: student accommodation
In Ground 4—
(a) omit the opening words;
(b) omit paragraph (a) (together with the final “and”);
Ground 4 currently reads:
Ground 4
The tenancy is a fixed term tenancy for a term not exceeding twelve months and—
(a)not later than the beginning of the tenancy the landlord gave notice in writing to the tenant that possession might be recovered on this ground; and
(b)at some time within the period of twelve months ending with the beginning of the tenancy, the dwelling-house was let on a tenancy falling within paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to this Act.
Paragraph 8 states:
Lettings to students
8(1)A tenancy which is granted to a person who is pursuing, or intends to pursue, a course of study provided by a specified educational institution and is so granted either by that institution or by another specified institution or body of persons.
(2)In sub-paragraph (1) above “specified” means specified, or of a class specified, for the purposes of this paragraph by regulations made by the Secretary of State by statutory instrument.
(3)A statutory instrument made in the exercise of the power conferred by sub-paragraph (2) above shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
I've just given the Bill a quick scan on the Gov website and it confirms the Conservative Government's intention that all PRS stock will have to meet the Decent Homes Standards. This confirms the direction of travel of EPC Grade C as a minimum for all PRS houses and flats. This spells the end of expensive to heat/fuel poverty EPC Grade D and Grade E housing units. When I checked with my local MP she confirmed that The Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard Bill is now almost confirmed as Law, with all domestic rental stock required to to EPC Grade C by December 2028, latest. So we've got 5 1/2 years to insulate the walls, loft or roof and install an cost effective heating system into our units. This is clearly best done when the unit is vacant and in-between tenancies.
The American Petroleum Institute's Stanford research paper from 1968, confirming that burning fossil fuels causes climate change, would suggest that investing in a new gas combi boiler is not a wise move. Dimplex Quantum electric night storage heaters or Sinclair electric air-con splits (that provide winter heating via simple internal cassettes) seem like the obvious way forward for us.
Can you post the link please Martin. I couldn't find it.
ChatBot Martin spreading falsehoods again - the MEES bill hasn't been written or introduced to Parliament yet, it is nowhere near law.
Reading the last line I think maybe he works for Dimplex!
The only problem with High Retention Storage Heaters (Quantum) is that they are Electric and currently the EPC is weighted against anything electric.
Also, If you do not have a dual meter when using HRSH the EPC has to show them as electric panel heaters and no benefit is achieved.
Every one of our tenants with dimplex quantum hate them and complain of high bills.
Fool!
So - sighting a research paper from 55 years ago to back up the notion that the climate changes.
The term climate change exists, because the vested interests pushing all this had to drop the term “global warming” when it became apparent that the data didn’t support that the globe is getting warmer. The climate has always changed though so it is a term you can’t argue with.
The uk accounts for 1.1% of global emissions, domestic heating accounts 14% of uk emissions. Of which 74% is gas powered. Taking the best case estimate, electrical heating can save upto 44% of emissions. So, running the numbers - if you shifted the whole of the uk onto electric, and assumed the best case reduction in emissions is true - then it would reduce global carbon emissions by a whopping 0.05%. You can’t get much more negligible than that.
If you need further convincing that these green initiatives are just propaganda aimed at keeping the green energy industry afloat, while giving the government the excuse to raise taxes for everything we do - then just look at the last global summit. Glasgow airport ran out of tarmac for the parking of private jets.
Type into your browser - bills.parliament.uk/bills/3231
Bill 50: Minimum Energy Performance of Buildings Bill 2022-23. Had the first reading in the House a few weeks ago and second reading is in November. Seeking PRS EPC Grade D and Grade E houses and flats to be outlawed by 2028, latest.
No falsehoods, Tricia, just facts about what's really going on.
@Chris Lee, ignore him.
I assume the many posts about energy efficiency are to divert discussion away from the Renters Reform Bill published today
The beginning of the end of our control over our own properties 👎🏻😱
Ironic, isn't it? We pay salary to empower those to take away something from us.
Martin, I’ve tried all the different ways to save energy: insulation, double glazing, A rated boilers, energy-efficient lightbulbs in my HMOs, they make no difference. How do I know because I operate over 100 HMOs and read the meters in each HMO every week and they show no difference in the energy used before and after energy conservation measures are used. I am only talking about HMOs but I suspect the same applies to single lets. There is a massive flaw in the way properties are assessed for energy efficiency.
The only two ways I find you can save on energy in HMOs, is limit the heating either to the amount or the time which upsets tenants and fit prepay meters into the HMO rooms. When the tenants are paying for the electric, they make sure everything is switched off and this can almost half the amount of electric used in my HMOs.
I am not saying that double glazing and roof insulation does not have benefits: double glazing makes the rooms much more comfortable and reduces mould. Roof insulation soundproofs and I do it between every floor.
Jim HaliburtonTheHMODaddy
If bills are included they turn the temperature down by opening the window...
I wish that was a joke Chris
But tenants will turn on the
Heating and open the windows for fun.
Completely agree with Jim, I have insulated and replaced boilers that i'm told at best are 60% efficient and replace with so called 98% efficiency, double glazed etc replacing the single glazed plastic units and guess what, negligible difference in bills.
The way to save money is be less wasteful and turn stuff off if not needed.
This is just a money spinner for people in this industry, like Martin Gibbons (I assume) and shareholders of these companies, possibly Government ministers, I wish I was joking!
Five sold so far
The economic consequences of less lets available are that we will have a much less flexible workforce. Until now, it's been possible to do a short employment contract - or to try a new job, by renting for a while. Or simply to move to a new job and renting while looking to purchase.
A disaster all round
How long before we see all the hotels who are temporarily homing the 'evicted' tenants selling up? - I can't imagine what the hoteliers are having to deal with and doubt the Council are 'managing' the situation well.
Thankfully they only have to stay there until the council builds some new housing estates
They will be full of the dinghy visitors.
No Simon they are not dinghy visitors. They are dinghy RESIDENTS where our lefty money hungry tax payer funded lawyers will fight to keep here. We may never get rid of them.
The Anti-Tenants Unfairer Renting Bill driving their Rents through the Roof which has driven their Rents up 30% already.
While driving Landlords out of
the market reducing Supply.
All Tenants increased costs are down to Government money
take, Regulatory Compliance, increased taxes, Legislation, Section 24, Licensing Schemes taking Billions out of Renter’s money.
The bare lies and deception is unbelievable.
Then Mr Ben Beadle on LBC this morning 7.30 am Chief
Executive of NRLA saying it doesn’t affect LL more or less, is he off his trolley. I am a long standing member but he doesn’t speak for me, and I am a Landlord since 1978.
Born with his silver spoon and only 100k members after 50 years even after amalgamation of the 2 main Landlords Association’s and gobbling up other smaller ones on the way., so are expected to believe we are being Represented, what a stitch up.
Agree he doesn't speak for me either. I am sure he "welcomes" the proposals as he always does.
We have not seen the detail yet but it appears to suggest that fixed term contracts have not been abolished ie student rentals which is the area of the industry Mr Beadle invests in. Would I be cynical in suggesting that a back room deal might have been done where he agrees the NRLA will quietly back Gove re abolishing S21 if he leaves fixed terms alone so preserving Mr Beadle's own livelyhood - its just conjecture and I have no proof but it smells.
I love the line about ‘the minority of evictions that do end up in the courts’?! After the RRB becomes law, ALL evictions will end up in the courts!!
Correct and remember everyone to form an orderly queue, maybe the NRLA can have pop up stalls outside the courts to offer advice?
I wish renters generally understood the harm all this is going to cause them. Might as well call this the Appeasing Rental Activists bill.
The data is clear that more landlords are selling up, fewer landlords are increasing their portfolios, and fewer are coming into market to replace those that leave. There will be less available properties and higher rents - this bill will only exacerbate the situation.
None of this will improve a renters life if there’s nothing available to rent, if they have to compete with dozens of other renters to get a property and then pay astronomical levels of rent to secure it.
At the same time, there will be hundreds of thousands of properties across the UK - sitting empty, while people are being made homeless. Properties that can’t easily achieve a grade C - that need too much work to appeal to a FTB, and will also be ignored by investors because the cost of getting it to a C will not make economical sense. This is especially true in the north where the cost of making the changes is a significant proportion of the value of the property to start with.
And anyone who thinks the government will manage to speed up the court system and eviction process for fault based evictions - well I have to say, I am envious of their naïve optimism.
😂😂😂😂😂 Landlords should be called "civil servants" lol.
When oh when will Politicians wake up to the Tsunami of homeless people who are going to be turning up at the Council's door for a home?
This claim that PRS properties are substandard is rubbish. There are far more social properties in that category. They have made the headlines and have avoided scrutiny for years and repairs bodged or just not done in may authorities. I heard that one council were having to rehouse around 80 families from their social properties due to damp and mould! What does that say for these claims about the PRS?
When will Gove and Nandy wake up to the need to build social properties in large numbers to help the problem not more leafy housing estates for working people. These builders will now find that investors are not buying up these to rent out as the PRS contracts as many sell up and look for other ways to invest for their retirement.
They both think this is a vote winner but I doubt that when lots of renters have no where affordable, safe and decent to live and are disillusioned!
Hello again Jason - are you the Jason Flicker living at 311 Main Road Harwich and working as a bouncer for a boxing organisation - do you own your own house - or perhaps not which is why you are so bitter and twisted. While you laugh and peddle your own particular breed of corrosive hatred there are families across this country losing their homes as a result of this Government's incompetence but all you see is an opportunity to vent your spite. I find that quite sad
Jason isn't alone there are many out there just like him bitter and twisted and all screwed up inside quite sad really
And it’s started. The moment the landlord register goes live we can quickly check for these ‘type’ of tenants and they will end up being offered the lowest of the low
So this morning I have just done a quick tally up of all the houses for sale on Rightmove using the following criteria - up to 3300k - up to 3 beds - not retirement, buying schemes or new homes.
There were definitely 26 owner occupier homes for sale but interestingly of those about 5 were park homes and it is a reasonably affluent market town in Norfolk
I was unsure of about 7 of the houses for sale - they had the hallmarks of ex rentals but I could not be certain
then 21 of the houses were DEFINITELY ex rentals as I have seen them up for rent on numerous occasions
So even if you assume ALL of the houses that might have been ex rentals are actually owner occupied that still leaves you with about 38 to 40% of current stock in that bracket being sold are ex rentals. And yet the government do not appeared to be worried by this...... It is just incomprehensible. And I think it will get worse in the next few weeks. AND I just checked rentals available in our local market town population about 10.5k people is 1 two bed flat with combined kitchen dining area so very small and no parking. There used to be up to 20 props on market at any one time in 2016 before meddling by govt started
In the same week government is about to announce net migration last year of what is rumoured to be as high as 900,000, they introduce a piece of legislation that will reduce the amount of homes avialable for people to rent. As john redwood put it on the today program, we need to build a small city each year just to house new migrants let alone deal with the massive backlog.
Its going to be carnage, many of my clients have had emails from LLs in the last 24 hours asking them to explain the implications of removing section 21. Final straw for many, and mainly because they dont want to take the time to understand how to get their properties back through some convoluted new court system. Easier just to sell up before the CGT allowance halves again.
(Gibbons is a chatbot.)
They did a survey of public buildings energy efficiency , guess what came bottom of the list ?
Buckingham Palace
"Buckingham Palace has being given the worst possible score in an energy efficiency report to top London's 'dirty dozen' of most environmentally damaging buildings.
The Royal residence was described as 'shocking and appalling' as a team of energy surveyors gave it a green score of 0 out of 10.
Thermal imaging technology, used to identify and measure energy waste, showed heat pouring through the closed curtained windows of the historic treasure, its roof and even cracks in the walls."
Wonder if King Charles will be talking about that anytime soon ...
Biggest council house in the country, should be classed as an HMO!
GET OUT NOW, BEFORE THE RUSH
Edmonton County Cournts
19 weeks to open an email or letter
(was quoted as 57 working days, but 19 sounds smaller)
Judge given tenants 7 months to complete a defence and counting.
Will be well over a year, with 20k arrears
(equal to a year and a half living for free)
PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOU ARN'T HATED!
Sound advice. Finally got my bailiffs in a couple of weeks in East London after a S21 in November.
Mine is still ongoing, submitted end of December. Hate to think what state the house will be in, however it will be the last time I do a makeover on this property, as will be going on sale.
Tenant had until 12th May to submit a defence!
Great piece of reform and not before time.
For those here threatening or confirming their intention to sell (and thereby increasing supply to respond to demand): thank you for your contribution to solving the housing crisis.
Silly troll.
I am afraid Richard Head that exiting may bring more to the market but will also probably accelerate house prices.
Those that cannot afford a house will then be struggling because there is nowhere to rent. Problem still there..
John Smithers
You're an idiot!
How does selling a property increase the supply?
Only BUILDING houses adds to the supply.
Selling a property previously rented to an owner occupier typically REDUCES supply as rental properties typically have much higher occupancy levels so selling to owners adds to the housing shortage.
However as someone who doesn't, wouldn't and couldn't contribute to the housing supply, I don't expect you to understand how it works and understand your insane jealousy of those who would, could and do contribute and have made a bundle of cash in the process.
I worked very hard for around 50 years, but probably earned (and spent)) less than £2 million in employment and running businesses. However over the last 30 years or so, I have turned £6000 into a £4 million property portfolio, grossing around £280,000 rental income per annum.
People like you are too bitter (and lazy) to emulate this so you try to make us upset in your posts.
Like you, this just doesn't work!
Jeeves, open another bottle of Bolly!
There was a talk a couple of months ago that this Bill could also end fixed-term tenancy agreements, and so there are obvious implications for landlords of student properties like myself. And can anyone provide a link to the actual White Paper please? Either the govt has not yet formally published it or is just making it very difficult for anyone to find it online. Thanks.
The White Paper was published in June. Today there is a Bill that will go through parliament. I don't think it's public (yet).
It was only published a couple of hours ago
h t t p s : / / bills.parliament.uk/bills/3462
Thanks. I have a link to that original one, I was assuming though that there had been some amendments. Maybe not though. I've also asked the Dept for Levelling Up if there is a link yet.
I am sure there is no update otherwise it would be in your link.
Landlords know almost all tenant evictions are due to rent arrears, sadly the governments advice say's different, and we are powerless to change what is thrown at us.
However, if the new ombudsman service works (clearly it will be slow and LL's will lose in the region of 6 months rent each time), when thousands of tenants default, which they will, where will they go?
This legislation will put thousands of tenants in a position where they will have no access to housing. Will this outcome this just be ignored? Will landlords be forced to accept them, will housing association's be forced to accept them? Who will deal with the fall out? We will find out in the next episode of ''Government intervention in something we know little about''.
Maybe it's time for LL's to look at buying Hotels and B&B's, get paid by the council directly to home tenants sent directly to them, however in that case where would house the refugees?
Apparently big business are becoming Landlord's, Lloyds Bank, John Lewis etc. Guess which tenants they will be getting. Maybe then these big boys can lobby the Government and get them to change course.
Anyways will not be my problem, I will just be keeping the 3 that I have excellent tenants in, the rest will be renovated and sold. Need to beat the deadline of the next general election so I don't get burnt if Labour get in!
h t t p s : / / bills.parliament.uk/bills/3462
ITV the Anti-Landlord Television Station so its not independent and should have its license revoked. After a days work I had to switch off, can’t even watch TV with the propaganda.
A guy on there from a Campaign Group saying there’s no reason why a Landlord should able to evict a Tenant.
How brain washed they all are, there’s no reason why a Landlord should house him at all, go buy your own you sponger.
We are not Social Housing milking the tax payers for £23.1 billion Housing Benefit, you’ll never have enough free houses to give away created by the current system/ Single Parent family and dad from over seas free to pollinate at will and contribute nothing and kept as well.
Private Landlords its Private Property facilitated with private finance and not Public Housing or Money so what gives you the Right.
Gov spending more than £23 billion on social housing which is mismanaged and lacking in standards. Are they going to explain this to the tax payers? Gov is deflecting the social housing issues to the PRS when the PRS is not responsible. As per the reform bill saying 90% landlords were fine, 10% abusing tenancy rights and substandard living conditions. Why doesn't the government fix the 10%. It is crazy we are removing S21 because that 10% which belongs to social housing issue, not PRS. Suggest GOV have two different policies, PRS keeps S21. Social Housing can have the new reform bill.
Problem is, there aren't any Conservatives to blame, they've become Woke Socialist Lefties, stealing labours voters.
The Tories have got a disease. It's killing them. We need to put them down and all vote for the Reform party. I don't know who they are or what their policies are. But they are right wing. We just need more balance than all of these woke lefties who are doing us and tenants no good.
The great reset. The banks will be landlords as people default on mortgages. Globalist plan.
The great reset. The banks will be landlords as people default on mortgages. Globalist plan.
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