Government insists private rented sector remains stable after Renters’ Rights Act

Just like Nelson then “I see no ships” is now “I see no change”.

As a landlord of 30 years plus, I have never had as many enquiries from people who are losing their homes, because the landlord is now selling up.
It is all well and good “any” government “being seen” to do something but before doing so it should assess the consequences and ensure that both landlord and tenant have workable options and that there is, for all, a level playing field.
Attempts to grasp votes from numerically greater number of the electorate, by anyone, is doomed to eventual failure, leaving a mess for others to deal with.

Poppycock really has got his head in the sand on this one. I’m surprised he didn’t trot out his usual “the PRS has doubled in size since 2002” nonsense – a meaningless statistic using selective dates.
Listen Poppycock – get one of your minions to spend a day or two browsing all the local Facebook pages across the country. The message from desperate would-be renters is the same – “my landlord is selling, there’s nothing available, and what is available is hugely unaffordable and the agents/landlords are being very very picky”

The stupidity of HM Govt and this Minister in favouring Blackro ck a massive US entity over all and any UK landlords. So all of the inflationary benefits of rising property prices go to a foreign entity that is desperate to get money out of the US and into stable property ie family homes in the UK. The UK Labour Govt are then facilitating this by Renter Rights Act, the exemption from stamp duty for over 9 propertys bought at the same time Chancellor Hammond foulness feathering his own nest and sacrificing the country.
Grow some balls and like President Trump ban companys from owning more than 350 homes. Whilst also requiring that Companys have to upgrade the property to EPC C before selling them by a fixed deadline or staged deadline over 3 years with ultimate beneficial owers and aggregated interest.
There is one thing that drives up househiold wealth and confidence and that is the one asset class that is required ie property. Wake up Labour and ReformUK this is getting urgent. They have hoovered up 350,000 already!!! Too much Too fast and too big and over here

MPs have only one interest, how much they can fill up their pockets. Why do we even vote for these politicians.

This minister is completely detached from reality!

I don’t believe him my last six tenants were sec 21s

The government can tell by the large increase in Capital Gains Tax what is happening to the PRS. I suspect this is part of the plan as this money comes to the government now, so is worth more than worrying about the future when the shortage of housing might be someone else’s problem!

Only yesterday, I acquired a large fridge freezer for a property via Facebook from a woman who was moving home and had no room for the appliance in the new place.

When I got chatting with her, she told me that she was recently widowed, her landlord was selling up, and that he had previously given her a section 21 and got a possession date which was imminent.

She is one of the very lucky ones because my area seems to be relatively well-provided with social housing, at least for urgent needs, but she was still finding it stressful having to move and because she wasn’t sure if the new place would be quite ready in time.

They probably did an assessment on Capital Gains Tax and Stamp duty Receipts they would collect by driving private landlords out. With little thought of the plights of tenants.

Its not just section 21 . The whole of the RRA is toxic.