Mark is a landlord based in South Manchester. He has been a landlord for twelve years, and has four properties which he rents out alongside his full time job as an electrician. He says that Section 21, which he has used twice, has proven to be a useful tool for him, on the rare occasions […]
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Today the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan called for powers to implement rent controls. Responding top this call, our policy director David Smith said: “Rent controls are meaningless if Londoners can’t find a home to live in. Rent controls will lead to a drop in investment and increasing supply should be the Mayor’s priority. “Localised […]
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Vulnerable tenants at higher risk of rent arrears will be hit hardest by plans to change the way landlords can repossess properties. According to one of the largest ever non-government surveys of landlords and agents 84% said that plans to scrap Section 21, ‘no explanation’ repossessions would make them “more selective” about the tenants they rent […]
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Helen Romero is a landlord in Barnet, London. Here, Helen explains how she relied on being able to use a Section 21 notice when a tenant trashed one of her properties, causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage. Helen has been a landlord for five and a half years, and in that time, she has […]
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Una is a landlord with 20 properties in Leeds. All of her properties are single-lets and she also has one HMO property. Una says that most of her tenants have been lovely, but she has relied on using Section 21 a few times in the past to get her property back quickly. In one extreme […]
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Lui Renzo is a landlord with five properties that he rents out in Hull and Cleethorpes. He has been a landlord for 18 years and manages his property portfolio alongside holding down a full-time job working in manufacturing. Here, Lui explains why he once relied on using Section 21 to gain possession of his property quickly, […]
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The proportion of income spent by private tenants on rents has fallen over the past year, according to new official figures. Updated figures in the English Housing Survey, show that tenants are spending less of their income on housing, with this figure standing at 33%, down from 34% the previous year. The updated English Housing […]
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Andrea Peacock is a landlord and a letting agent based in Devon. In more than 30 years of being a landlord, she has only ever served a handful of Section 21 notices and these have all been for antisocial behaviour issues. Having recently put one of her HMO properties on the market, Andrea says that […]
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A cap limiting landlord spend on energy efficiency improvements to £3,500 could be scrapped, with a new £5,000 figure proposed. Under the Government’s Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) landlords with properties in the lowest energy efficiency bands (F or G) are expected to contribute up to £3,500 towards the cost of bring them to an […]
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The government has confirmed it will make changes to its Housing Health and Safety Rating System, used to assess health and safety in the home. Council officers use the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) to assess if rented homes have hazards that could put tenants’ health at risk and can take action against landlords […]
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