Renters’ Rights Bill risks excluding vulnerable tenants
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Landlords support new possession grounds in Renters’ Rights Bill – Landbay
12:06 AM, 15th January 2025, 1 year ago
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While many landlords are concerned about the abolition of Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions, they believe the expanded Section 8 possession grounds proposed in the Renters’ Rights Bill could be useful.
The survey from buy to let lender Landbay found that new mandatory Section 8 grounds for possession, such as when the landlord or their family intends to occupy the property, the property is to be sold, or compliance with enforcement action is required was helpful for nearly 40% of landlords.
However, 28% disagreed that the expanded possession grounds would be beneficial.
‘Possession grounds could offer a helping hand’
Landbay’s sales and distribution director, Rob Stanton, said: “New possession grounds could offer a helping hand to landlords in the face of the abolition of section 21s.
“Good landlords far outweigh the bad and, despite a somewhat bumpy market at the moment, demand continues to outstrip supply.”
The survey also reveals that nearly all landlords are aware of the Renters’ Rights Bill – just 9% say they aren’t familiar with it.
‘Deal with problem tenants’
One landlord told researchers: “Tenants should be dealt with fairly. Landlords should respond in good time to genuine issues, but they should however be allowed to deal with problem tenants swiftly and firmly.”
But another thought that the Section 8 process would take too long.
They explained: “I don’t believe in the abolition of section 21 as it will put a lot of financial pressure on landlords when a tenant does not pay rent and has to go down the lengthy process of section 8 to get a property back.”
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Buy to let, evictions, landbay, Landlords, possession grounds, renters rights bill, section 21, Section 8
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Member Since December 2023 - Comments: 1581
10:33 AM, 15th January 2025, About 1 year ago
I predict that those new mandatory grounds for possession will not make it to legislation. If they do, they’ll be removed when selling or moving family in becomes Rayners new main cause of homelessness.
Member Since August 2016 - Comments: 1190
10:39 AM, 15th January 2025, About 1 year ago
Mandatory ground or not it will take many years to get your case heard once the RRB becomes law and the backlogs become even worse. All by design of course, as confirmed recently by Matthew Pennycook.
Member Since May 2024 - Comments: 111
3:02 PM, 15th January 2025, About 1 year ago
Unless compensation is agreed to be paid if a S8 takes longer than a set time, the idea of waiting over a year in financial limbo will always be hanging over landlords especially when the S8 reason is non payment.
Member Since March 2023 - Comments: 24
11:10 AM, 16th January 2025, About 1 year ago
Reply to the comment left by Cider Drinker at 15/01/2025 – 10:33
I fear you are correct
Member Since September 2021 - Comments: 104
11:10 AM, 16th January 2025, About 1 year ago
After looking into the RRB, it looks like this is how this will play out in the courts…
All Mandatory grounds will take a long long time, (years!) to get to court, because of the numbers involved. Once it does get to court, the Judge “has to be convinced that the mandatory grounds used for possession are VALID!” In other words, all these mandatory grounds are at the discretion of the judge. They are effectively therefore, discressionary grounds, because they are at the discretion of the judge. I.e. If you can’t convince a judge of your grounds, you lose your case. In my experience, judges are very flexible in how they choose to be convinced of anything. I’m sure no judge will be convinced by anything you say, or prove, or do if you are a landlord.
Added to that, tennants that are prepared to go to court to challange your S8, will be so convincing to the judge, in everything they say and do, that you will inevitably lose your S8 case.
As long as the judge can plausibly claim he was convinced by the tennant, and not convinced by the LL then your mandatory S8 claims will be dismissed as easy as taking candy from a baby.
There is no hope now for LL’s with this RRB. The judges are courrupted and so is the whole govenment system. There is no justice anymore in the UK. Its best for you to sell up and emigrate to where you are treated best.
Member Since June 2019 - Comments: 778
11:27 AM, 16th January 2025, About 1 year ago
If you think of the potential problems with mandatory grounds just consider that ASB is in the discretionary part.