London councils’ temporary accommodation ‘bankruptcy risk’ as landlords quit

The more that authority attacks landlords the more I can charge for my rent. Tenants will have to have a solid gold financial background before they are even considered for a tenancy.

This will all be the Private Landlords fault then.

Time for Oscar nominations.
1) Michael Gove for his never-ending efforts to over-regulate the already over-regulated private sector out of existence.
2) Local Government for their unwavering insistence on bringing in all-but useless ‘health and safety’ requirements, solely with the aim of extracting fees from landlords.
3) HMRC/ Tory Government for introducing Income Tax on mortgage interest payments supplemented by increased Capital Gains Tax on sale of property and increased Inheritance Tax on transfer of property
4) The corrupt court system for their complete and utter failure to allow landlords to take possession of THEIR properties within a reasonable time frame,( I’m currently into my third year trying to repossess a 1 bed flat – Section 21 and Section 8. Hats off to Willesden County Court. Anarchy cannot be far away !!! Apparently the courts are deliberately chucking out repossession attempts at the request of government, solely to string out evictions!!
5) The entire Tory party for evolving from a conservative party to a socialist party.

Reply to the comment left by TJP at 28/02/2024 – 12:32
An impossibly difficult choice but if I had to nominate one it would be Gove. Everything he touches turns to dust.

Their enemies are within them.

Simple answer to all this YOU REAP WHAT YOU SEW , GOVERMENT, COUNCILS HOMLESS CHARITIES ALL GUILTY OF DEMONISING LANDLORDS AND THE PRS IN GENERAL., UNTIL THEY WAKEUP AND SMELL THE COFFEE IT WILL I REPEAT IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE.

Those who work and pay taxes should be prioritised over those that choose not to.

It’s like a slow motion train crash. You can see the red lights, you can hear the train’s coming. You shout but nobody hears you, and then everything gets crushed into clouds of dust, with bits flying everywhere.
The conservatives wrecking the PRS, to win votes as they turn towards Marxism, and join the Woke lefties to form the Uniparty. They never wanted Brexit, so they hang on to the EU, blaming Brexit for all the woes. They can’t wait to get us into the EU again.
I suppose the pendulum will swing in the right direction eventually, but it has a long way to go yet. Wait until the Left get into power at the next election, then we will see explosions, not just train crashes.
We still have the millions of boat people arriving, the arrival of CBDC’s the clamping down of the PRS with the RRB, and even more tax, and more tax and more…

Councils will go bust, council tax will rise, council assets will be sold off, council services will cease and then those owner occupiers sitting pretty, who are not landlords or tenants will wonder what on earth happened. TOO LATE the train has crashed

The Councils are not the landlords’ friends. They always act against the private landlord regardless of what is morally and potentially, legally right.

If landlords didn’t favour private tenants over the homeless population, where would the private tenants go? Would they themselves become homeless.

Why are so many people homeless in London? Couldn’t they be homeless somewhere a little cheaper?

The Conservatives and Labour before them have encouraged mass immigration to the U.K.

It shouldn’t come as any surprise that the housing stock is struggling to keep up with demand.