Private rented sector key to solving London housing crisis – NRLA

And Ben Beadle fights the PRS landlords corner?

Reply to the comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 29/05/2026 – 13:20
Is this more encouragement for Build to Rent?

Speaking at the London Housing Conference, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA), Ben Beadle, claimed investment in the private rented sector is key to tackling the housing crisis.

WRONG

They gov don’t need to ‘invest’ in anything, they just need to take their foot of the heads of drowning LL’s. Investment will follow if the government stops picking on the sector as though we are responsible in full for the housing crisis.

Why can’t he just explain that government policy is attacking the PRS and the consequences are obvious that are a direct result of this. 1. Landlords are leaving the sector (fact use the stats in the public domain). 2. Landlords are selling up (fact – stats are out there). 3 Landlords are being more stringent on who they let to (fact – stats are out there). 4. Landlords are not buying/investing with the increased SDLT charges.

We ALL know more social provision needs to be built, but the lack of this is not the PRS problem (and so neither are the consequences of this shortage). He doesn’t need to get involved in this other than to say its their job and they should get on with it!

Is BB that stupid to think that Marxists listen to anyone who says the government should be ‘investing’ more in private housing provision???? It’s not in their DNA to accept, never mind promote the increase of private housing provision.

I don’t think that any of us really believed the Labour we-are-building-1.5-million-new-homes-lie any more than we believed the we-are-growing-the-economy-lie. But there’s a report saying thousands of new London homes are empty as service charges taxes and high prices put off buyers.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-15855977/Thousands-new-build-London-homes-lie-service-charges-taxes-high-prices-buyers-investors.html

How can you build 1.5 million new homes if your housing policy is to attack investors for buying them? Both the conservatives and labour have already created a situation where you will generate a better return on your capital by putting your money somewhere else. The Labour Renters Rights Act now makes investing in this kind of investment a high risk venture for both you and any lender that might still have an interest in lending.

And why would any investor want to invest in property in any city where you had both a Labour Renters Rights Act and Sadik Khan as the mayor?

Reply to the comment left by Stella at 29/05/2026 – 14:08
I think that probably investment in London would only really be feasible if you were investing via a limited company, because everybody else is penalised by the tax system. So I suspect that you could be right….it’s build to rent or ‘built to rent’ because nobody else has been allowed to play any more…labour MPs don’t want small private landlords to pick up their ball and go home…they want private landlords to go home leaving their ball behind them.

Just as property speculators have stacked their properties high in London, the tax system is stacked against the small landlord or small private investor. But why would you invest in London rather than Birmingham or Manchester, other than as an Airbnb? And surely you’d be better off investing in one of the English regional cities where they actually want and appreciate the investment? Sadik Khan doesn’t.