Landlord warns tenants of rent rises if selective licensing continues

You can’t pass on fees cost to tenants
I checked this point with RNLA
Years ago

Reply to the comment left by Elaine Landlord at 09/07/2025 – 10:07
It can’t be passed on as a separate fee but it can (and is) passed on as rent increases generally.

Landlord licensing has increased rents in every area it has been tried. The NRLA should be highlighting this.

Reply to the comment left by Monty Bodkin at 09/07/2025 – 11:02
Exactly. Any costs imposed on a supplier end up being paid by the consumer.

I don’t expect tenant campaign groups or the loony Left to understand.

It’ll go up by way more than £16pm.

Wait till u see how most of the Councils copy Nottingham’s imbecile template licensing website.
And the demands u get asked for.
And then u start to see the supply demand shoot up in the Landlords favour. And then Landlords think Wow we can charge the earth now. And we have to cause we just don’t know what is coming next.

After all, I’ve done nothing wrong, always provided new boiler, new kitchen etc. and what? You want to charge me £900? What for?
Cause that Landlord has done a crap job up the road and we using your licensing fee to go after him.

And that’s Selective Licensing for u.
The 80% good houses get worse cause funds and time gone on council and the 20% bad houses get better.

And the good houses get even worse cause u say I’m not bothering doing that kitchen I was gonna do cause all rents have shot up cause of Licensing and u paying well less than others even though we put it up when licensing comes in.

Over regulation killing it for tenants.

Reply to the comment left by Mick Roberts at 09/07/2025 – 17:27
It’s the tenant who pays in the end
I just pass on higher costs
Demand for rentals is so high
Some one will afford the higher rents
I just select the best tenant out of the applicants

Reply to the comment left by Monty Bodkin at 09/07/2025 – 11:02
Just don’t tell the tenant your charging him fees
Just put up the rent

Selective licensing is an interesting concept as it is usually for a 5 year period in an area that may be designated high density letting, problems with anti social behaviours and almost always sold as ‘ a benefit to the tenants’ or ‘everyone has a right to a quality home’ which are the most emotive statements. However if an area had been selectively licensed and the concept has improved the area then there is no need to repeat it and if the area doesn’t improve then obviously selective licensing doesn’t work. In both scenarios though the council is raking in free money and I would guess that in every area there has been selective licensing nothing much improves and the rents get higher and higher. There are so few cases over time in any industry where government intervention achieves its intentions.

Reply to the comment left by Michael Johnson – Amzac Estates at 09/07/2025 – 18:32
Well said Michael.
We’ve said same in Nottingham, no need to renew now cause you’ve achieved your aims haven’t u? Oh u haven’t, so it hasn’t worked?
Or it hasn’t achieved the aims, so no need to renew then cause it’s not working?
They’ve licensed roads with ZERO problems . They then say it’s an area.
Make it up as they go along. Tenants are real losers in this.
Meanwhile Nottingham Council the stories of their houses, conditions, repairs, way worse than the private sector.
They say they finding about 50% faults in private houses. They will do. Check every house, you’ll find a fault. New builds have something like an average of 246 faults

Reply to the comment left by Elaine Landlord at 09/07/2025 – 10:07
The fee gets passed on through rent increases at the next rent review.