The UK government will abolish 'no fault evictions' currently served uder what's known as a Section 21 Notice, under the Renters Reform Bill to be introduced in the current parliamnet.
The bill, to give tenants tenants more rights, was officially announed today in the Queen's Speech by Prince Charles standing in for the Queen who is unwell.
The bill is likely to become law this year and be rolled out in the next two years.
Campaigners and opposition parties want ‘open ended’ tenancies and an end to what is commonly known as no fault evictions. Currently, landlords who want to take back possession of their property, for instance when a tenancy has come to an end, merely have to serve a Section 21 notice to the tenant.
When Section 21 is abolished, it will be far more difficult for landlords to get their properties back and the onus will be on them to show grounds.
This could take us back to the days of rent controls in the 1950’s and 60’s where landlords had ‘sitting tenants’ they could never evict or ask for a rent increase.
As a result, investors were reluctant to invest in ‘buy-to-let’ property causing a housing shortage which was only solved by mass council house building which ran until the 1970’s.
The vast majority of 'buy-to-let' landlords are small investors with one or two properties, and many are accidental landlords.
Landlords I have spoken to said they would pull out of the market if 'open tenancies' were forced upon them and would be too nervous to rent out a property to a tenant were they would not be sure about getting back possession at the end of the tenancy.
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