Next steps for Renters’ Reform Bill unveiled

Next steps for Renters’ Reform Bill unveiled

12:10 PM, 2nd October 2023, About 8 months ago 18

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Michael Gove has revealed plans for the next reading of the Renters’ Reform Bill.

In a speech last night to the Centre for Policy Studies forum and a Shelter evening reception the Housing Secretary seemed to confirm that the next reading will take place this Autumn.

He did not specify a date but as the Kings Speech only a few weeks away a date for the second reading could be revealed shortly.

Thriving private rented sector

In remarks made at the Conservative Party conference Michael Gove said a “thriving private rented sector is vital to ensuring an effective housing market.”

Mr Gove said: “You can’t have an effective housing market, or provision of the homes we need, without having a variety of different types of tenure.

“A route to homeownership, a private rented sector that facilitates labour mobility among other things, and socially rented homes in order to help people who are, for whatever reason, eligible for, and deserving of, that level of support.”

The NRLA attended the event and called on fixed-term tenancies to be protected in the student housing market.

Michael Gove responded by saying: “Obviously in the rental market you need to take account of movement, particularly amongst students and so on.”

Landlords need certainty

Ben Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, said: “The Housing Secretary is right to acknowledge the importance of a thriving rental market alongside all other tenures. But the only way to achieve this is to develop policies that can secure the confidence of the vast majority of responsible landlords.

“When section 21 repossessions end, landlords need certainty that the courts will more swiftly process possession claims where there is good cause.

He added: “Alongside, this, we need to reform a tax system which is penalising the provision of the very homes renters are struggling to find.”


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Teessider

17:45 PM, 2nd October 2023, About 8 months ago

Why does nobody mention the impact on the supply of property caused by mass migration?

Election just around the corner. Many Tories are resigning because they know their time is up. For the rest, there’s just time for one last desperate attempt to buy some votes.

What will scrapping Section 21 deliver that cannot be addressed via Section 8 (assuming new grounds are added)?

The Party’s well and truly over.

Dylan Morris

17:45 PM, 2nd October 2023, About 8 months ago

Received offers on two of my rental flats in the last fortnight. Another one to complete in next couple of weeks. So that’s three sold just one more to go.Thank God they don’t have cladding issues as I’d have probably thrown myself under a bus by now. For many landlords it’s been their only way out. I wonder how many suicides Gove’s caused so far ?
We don’t need to worry about him though he’ll be gone by May or October next year.

Fed Up Landlord

18:23 PM, 2nd October 2023, About 8 months ago

Here's a soundbite...strapline....
whatever the movers and shakers call it now...

" Landlords To Go On Strike"

How we would do it I don't know....

Stella

18:41 PM, 2nd October 2023, About 8 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Teessider at 02/10/2023 - 17:45
It will cost a lot more to go the section 8 route, more costly court fees while tenants get free advice and representation at tax payers expense.
It will not be an even playing field with no guarantee that possession will be granted.

Michael Booth

19:48 PM, 2nd October 2023, About 8 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Stella at 02/10/2023 - 18:41
You can claim reasonable court costs back off tenant, Goodluck getting paid though

Reluctant Landlord

9:57 AM, 3rd October 2023, About 8 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Michael Booth at 02/10/2023 - 19:48
which is why a lot of LL's dont bother (to much stress etc) and then the stats dont show the reality of the problem - not just of bad tenants but the unfair system that allows the full debt to never be cleared, not the tenant bought to task for their actions.

I firmly beleive any claim for costs and the reason why should be of public record. Despite what a court decides, if the system cannot ensure that the costs are met as a direct result of that ruling there and then, then it should be made public record.

If the debtor wants to clear their name then payment must be made in full. Until then the record remains in the public domain.
Emphasis on the person with the debt to pay it off and get themselves off the 'naughtly list' rather than the victim to pay out more to a CCJ listed.

Peter G

15:34 PM, 3rd October 2023, About 8 months ago

Gove is applying Nelson's Blind Eye approach to this legislation, by ignoring all the precedents in Ireland, Netherlands and elsewhere that proves such restrictions REDUCE the number of properties available to rent and RAISE RENTS in the few properties remaining as QUEUES of tenants apply to get a precious RARE Rental Property. Meanwhile, few extra properties are bought by 1st time buyers (proving that claim to be a myth) families move out to the burbs where rent is cheaper, and shared properties become the norm because no-one can afford the new high rents on their own.

GlanACC

11:18 AM, 8th October 2023, About 7 months ago

Is the PRS thriving. Well for ttose stopping in it then probably YES. However many of us have decided to pack it in (me as well). S24 is unlikely to be repealed and WHEN (not IF) Labour get in then they will continue with the EPC requirements costing thousands. IE they will again reverse what Gove has just reversed. Starmer has just said he wants to build 1.5 million homes in 5 years, good luck with that.

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