This sounds great, but… My first reaction was “I wonder how this will actually turn out to be terrible for renters.”
Maybe life has beaten all the hope and optimism out of me, or maybe I’ve just been trained to expect nothing but abuse from this government and the landlord class they represent.
Is it possible for me to sign a 100 year rent contract to myself for £1 a year, sell my house to some unsuspecting landlord at a cut price. And then get to live forever basically rent free?
Heh. My landlord raised my rent from 1500 to 1800 just now. It all makes sense.
I predict whichever reason is most effective in law becoming the #1 reason cited for evictions. If it’s “I’m going to live in it” then suddenly you’ll find a lot of newly itinerant landlords wish to have their lifestyle respected. Of course, unless there’s some way of scrutinising their actual behaviour after the eviction, there’ll be no way to tell, and no enforcement. This might just add a layer of smoke and mirrors to the arbitrary evictions at present. I can’t see a local authority taking up that role, they’re barely effective at scrutinising HMO landlords and living conditions in their own social housing!
It would be good to see genuinely long term tenancies as well, say 10 years before review, that sort of thing. I don’t know exactly how it works in places with stronger tenancy culture, say Germany, but 12 month assured shorthold tenancies are a pretty weak baseline here in the UK. It would really shake things up if once a landlord had a tenant, it was down to the tenant to decide when they left, be it in 1 year or 20 years.
Punitive council tax rates for empty housing too. I like that one a lot. Despite their insistence that they’re just regular people trying to provide a service it’s clear they’re motivated by financial gain. If you make it unprofitable to be a poor landlord, maybe they’ll improve.
Oh hey that’s why I just got no-fault evicted!
I’m curious to see how this will affect landlords who wish to sell the property for whatever reason. I’m thinking here of accidental landlords and those wishing to cash out.
Or would that be an acceptable reason? (Because if so the no-fault eviction will turn into the “I’m going to sell the house/flat *fingers crossed behind my back*” eviction.
I feel like this is massive but I’m not sure how massive. I was never really sure when a section 21 could be issued in the first place. They could never do it mid-contract right? Only at the end of a contract or if you were on a rolling contract? So what happens now at the end of the contract when the landlord decides they want to sell up, or don’t want to rent out the house any more for whatever reason?
This is great. Long overdue.
Can’t tenants still have to leave if a landlord chooses not to renew the tenancy?
I’m hoping to move into and eventually buy my mums place when I can find better work, but someone’s been in there a long time already and probably intending to stay as long as possible.
A section 21 is a nasty thing to invoke out of nowhere, I would give the tenant as long as they needed to find a new home since I’m otherwise in a good living situation, but I would want the place for myself at some agreed upon point and not *eventually*.
Surely this is can only be a good thing? I have a friend in Germany that rents his house out as he moved for work and now wants to move back into it (and evicting his “no-fault” tenants). He basically has a hell of a lot of hoops to jump though to secure this, but can do it legally as long as he has proper justifications (including ensuring that the tenant agrees and has suitable accommodation lined up).
I do wonder what the definition of “fault” is and if there are loopholes that can be exploited here. The article does mention additional protections, so I assume forcing a fault (aka putting up rent to stupid levels) will not work.
If LLs were losing their minds over the Welsh proposals I don’t know what they’re going to do over these plans.
I was a landlord with one property. I evicted my tenant using section 21 last month. The whole eviction process took over 6 months and I had to go to court twice. The tenant was a hoarder, abusive and racist to me and my family, they also damaged the flat extensively on purpose and blamed me. They made false allegations to the council multiple times about the property. So relieved I could evict them before the section 21 ban!
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This sounds great, but… My first reaction was “I wonder how this will actually turn out to be terrible for renters.”
Maybe life has beaten all the hope and optimism out of me, or maybe I’ve just been trained to expect nothing but abuse from this government and the landlord class they represent.
Is it possible for me to sign a 100 year rent contract to myself for £1 a year, sell my house to some unsuspecting landlord at a cut price. And then get to live forever basically rent free?
Heh. My landlord raised my rent from 1500 to 1800 just now. It all makes sense.
I predict whichever reason is most effective in law becoming the #1 reason cited for evictions. If it’s “I’m going to live in it” then suddenly you’ll find a lot of newly itinerant landlords wish to have their lifestyle respected. Of course, unless there’s some way of scrutinising their actual behaviour after the eviction, there’ll be no way to tell, and no enforcement. This might just add a layer of smoke and mirrors to the arbitrary evictions at present. I can’t see a local authority taking up that role, they’re barely effective at scrutinising HMO landlords and living conditions in their own social housing!
It would be good to see genuinely long term tenancies as well, say 10 years before review, that sort of thing. I don’t know exactly how it works in places with stronger tenancy culture, say Germany, but 12 month assured shorthold tenancies are a pretty weak baseline here in the UK. It would really shake things up if once a landlord had a tenant, it was down to the tenant to decide when they left, be it in 1 year or 20 years.
Punitive council tax rates for empty housing too. I like that one a lot. Despite their insistence that they’re just regular people trying to provide a service it’s clear they’re motivated by financial gain. If you make it unprofitable to be a poor landlord, maybe they’ll improve.
Oh hey that’s why I just got no-fault evicted!
I’m curious to see how this will affect landlords who wish to sell the property for whatever reason. I’m thinking here of accidental landlords and those wishing to cash out.
Or would that be an acceptable reason? (Because if so the no-fault eviction will turn into the “I’m going to sell the house/flat *fingers crossed behind my back*” eviction.
I feel like this is massive but I’m not sure how massive. I was never really sure when a section 21 could be issued in the first place. They could never do it mid-contract right? Only at the end of a contract or if you were on a rolling contract? So what happens now at the end of the contract when the landlord decides they want to sell up, or don’t want to rent out the house any more for whatever reason?
This is great. Long overdue.
Can’t tenants still have to leave if a landlord chooses not to renew the tenancy?
I’m hoping to move into and eventually buy my mums place when I can find better work, but someone’s been in there a long time already and probably intending to stay as long as possible.
A section 21 is a nasty thing to invoke out of nowhere, I would give the tenant as long as they needed to find a new home since I’m otherwise in a good living situation, but I would want the place for myself at some agreed upon point and not *eventually*.
Surely this is can only be a good thing? I have a friend in Germany that rents his house out as he moved for work and now wants to move back into it (and evicting his “no-fault” tenants). He basically has a hell of a lot of hoops to jump though to secure this, but can do it legally as long as he has proper justifications (including ensuring that the tenant agrees and has suitable accommodation lined up).
I do wonder what the definition of “fault” is and if there are loopholes that can be exploited here. The article does mention additional protections, so I assume forcing a fault (aka putting up rent to stupid levels) will not work.
If LLs were losing their minds over the Welsh proposals I don’t know what they’re going to do over these plans.
I was a landlord with one property. I evicted my tenant using section 21 last month. The whole eviction process took over 6 months and I had to go to court twice. The tenant was a hoarder, abusive and racist to me and my family, they also damaged the flat extensively on purpose and blamed me. They made false allegations to the council multiple times about the property. So relieved I could evict them before the section 21 ban!