Generation Rent is making houses even more expensive for tenants

Totally agree wth you. This is part of a deliberate plan to ensure there wll be no private landlords in the future. It’s a master plan and those that rent will be those that suffer. Landlords can sell up and invest elsewhere without worrying about calling out the plumber anymore!

It is always the case, the more they mess about with fixing it, the more tenants pay. And now they are turning honest landlords into criminals, all for the sake of a land grab.

“We are not criminals, we may make a paperwork error as you’ve bought in something like over 176 new rules since 2015…”
This statement by Mick Roberts really hit home and quite frankly was upsetting to read because I could not agree more!
As a housing professional and former local authority homeless officer, I have been appalled at successive governments maltreatment, demonization and criminalization of honest decent landlords!
This has got to stop!
THEY the powers that be, are hell bent on portraying all landlords as dishonest and immoral and tenants as imbeciles!
When is someone actually going to challenge local authorities on THEIR statutory failings which include for example, one local authority’s complete abrogation of the Homeless Reduction Act 2017 ie ignoring this Act completely and thereby CAUSING many households to become homeless??
Local authorities are NOT above the law! Concurring with my accusations that ” they would drown under the flood of judicial reviews if tenants could access legal assistance to take local authorities to court over such statutory failings” isn’t good enough!
You honestly could not make this stuff up!

I wonder how this is being publicised. ESP? Not all landlords use agents or subscribe to 118 or similar. The fact that a landlord /agent has not served the notice would probably never come up unless a landlord wants to evict. In which case non-service or the tenant saying it was not served could well stop the process and lay the landlord open to a £7,000 fine on top of all the other eviction expenses.
This is an indication of what is coming, stuff will be introduced and not publicised properly and end up tripping landlords up. How much will the fine be if landlords do not pay to put themselves on a landlord register or pay to join the ombudsman scheme? The fines will be at levels that are unrealistic compared to the actual rent received in many cases. An innocent slip up by you or a letting agent could ruin you. Don’t expect to be cut any slack.

Reply to the comment left by northern landlord at 24/03/2026 – 11:11
I’ve asked my MP how this fine is proportionate, reasonable and fair.
I’ve also asked what other industries or sectors get fined this much for not issuing a document.
Neither questions answered.

Reply to the comment left by Karen Dodd at 24/03/2026 – 10:52
And Landlady being fined if tenant took smoke alarm down.
If it is a Master plan, it’s baffling how they haven’t got the back up plan first of having plenty of houses for the tenants.

Reply to the comment left by Ma’at Housing Solutions at 24/03/2026 – 11:08
They rely on tenants apathy when it comes to themselves.

Reply to the comment left by northern landlord at 24/03/2026 – 11:11
Exactly Northern. There will be many totally unaware. Just like Selective Licensing. And Section 24 until they ask their accountants why the tax bill is more than they making.

Reply to the comment left by caringlandlord at 24/03/2026 – 12:23
Very good Caring
how this fine is proportionate, reasonable and fair.

Push the MP again please.

Mick, I have spent quite a few hours digging through paperwork each night over the last couple of days to get tenants email addresses, especially joint tenants who I normally don’t contact. I don’t wan’t to send out via whats app unless it’s the only way as I wan’t to be able to keep a record of confirmation of who has received the document. I still need to chase up about 30% of them tomorrow to get them to confirm in writing that they have received it.
My portfolio is only a fraction of yours so I can only imagine the headache this is going to cause and it will take you more than a month to sort out.
I don’t think that the government know or care that people with large portfolios need more than a month to contact all of the tenants and get confirmed replies.