The Renters Reform Bill has now passed all of its House of Commons stages, with amendments - as almost every Bill has as it is discussed with MPs.
It now goes through a process similar to that which took place in the Commons, namely:
- First reading: The bill arrives in the Lords. This stage is a formality where the bill name is read in the chamber;
- Second reading: The main debate on the purpose and key areas of the bill. At this stage members discuss any concerns or specific areas where they think changes may be needed. There are usually no votes (divisions) at this stage;
- Committee stage: Detailed line-by-line scrutiny of the text with amendments (suggested changes). Members start at the front of the bill and work through to the end. Votes may take place to decide whether to make the changes. Any member may take part and there is no time limit;
- Report stage: A further opportunity to examine the bill and make changes. More amendments are debated and further votes take place to decide whether to make the changes;
- Third reading: A ‘tidying up' stage, aiming to close any loopholes. A final chance for amendments and votes;
- Consideration of amendments: If the Lords has made changes to the draft law, it is sent to the Commons to agree. The Commons may accept the Lords change, make its own change in its place, or reject it. Any Commons changes are sent back to the Lords. There may be several rounds of this process, known as ‘ping pong’;
- Royal Assent: When both Houses have agreed the text, the bill is approved by the monarch and becomes a law or ‘Act of Parliament'
No date has yet been set for these stages.
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Could take time then! Time enough to get those Sec21’s sent out.
2024 Action Plan - before Election:
1. Get rents increased to the current "maximum going market rent", if not there already
2. Issue Section21 and get Tenants out & sold up - if you need to sell or were thinking of doing so, get on with it whilst you can.
Everybody is going to be serving Section 21 notices now. That is why I always find it so incredible when people who support its abolition keep saying the nonsensical phrase: "the sky is not going to fall in"
Well actually, for many, the abolition of Section 21 is absolutely devastating: it is going to make a huge number of tenants homeless and it is destroying the entire livelihood of many landlords.
The trouble is too many trying to do same thing and get out. The ones that seen the light and got out 18-24 months ago got top price and missed the agro, how lucky they were and I knew a some of those had been long time landlords.
Nightmare now half the Sales falling through although that might a slight
exaggeration but real figures are sky high.
Some have Sold Board up months but still fall through and back to the Market and won’t get same offer again as the penny drops and more potential buyers realise what this so called Renters Reform Bill really is and the chain is breaks.
Well done Mr Michael Gove, Shelter, Generation Rent, NRLA etc, for introducing Labours Prescott’s Policies, so you thought that you were destroying Private Landlords not realising its everyone’s property is hit including your own, you morons, if I was a spiteful person I’d probably bust my sides laughing but wouldn’t wish anyone any harm.
You are right Michael; it is like selling shares. You get a very good price when others are buying, not when everyone is trying to get rid of them.
Typical banker scare tactics, sadly the real bad guys lurk in the shadows pulling the strings while pushing up front the supposed baddies landlords
Divide and conquer, about the only sensible thing to ever come out of Di Abbot
Ironically I guess “bad” landlords will just stay put ignoring legislation as they do now. I feel so sorry for good tenants as actually they are the ones who suffer along with small “ good” landlords.
And there are probably some bad landlords who tenants would be too frightened to complain about because they would suffer physical violence, so those landlords will not be identified.
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