Reform UK vow to scrap the Renters’ Rights Act

Reply to the comment left by David100 at 25/02/2026 – 10:35
It seems one such database may be compiled for landlords but no such benefit for landlords who are not allowed to know which are potentially bad tenants.

Reply to the comment left by David100 at 25/02/2026 – 13:05
You ask what are the “obvious reasons”?
Unless there is some due process, such as a court decision, vexatious and potentially defamatory entries might be added.

How do you think it might work? Landlord L notifies the register administrator that tenant T is in arrears/has breached the tenancy. What is the administrator supposed to do? If he just enters the tenant\’s name and the alleged offence without checking, tenants could be wrongly accused and the administrator sued for defamation. The administrator cannot adjudicate without a full investigation which is not his job.

As I say, provided landlords take legal action and register CCJs the court register will provide information to prospective landlords.

Section 21 was a very good way of retaining tenancies. A tenant in arrears could wave a Section 21 at any low priority creditors and get a breathing space in which to reduce rent arrears. No one wants to be chasing a homeless person for debt. Rent is a high priority payment.

If it was felt Section 21 was being abused a far more satisfactory solution would have been to introduce a compensation requirement for any long term tenants who had fully adhered to their tenancy agreement. It was something Mark Alexander suggested years ago with his Deed of Assurance. It was a brilliant idea then and would have been far more practical than the RRA.

Okay, guys, here’s the real elephant in the room: when AI begins to really destroy jobs (and it’s already started) all your good tenants will be forced to default, and the government will simply not be able to handle the rise in benefits claims. So where is our rent coming from?

Reply to the comment left by Jo Westlake at 25/02/2026 – 14:36
Yes, but I don’t think the politicians even thought of it. I canvassed on this site a few years ago a regime similar to s25 Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. If the only reason was a non-fault reason the Landlord would pay compensation to the Tenant linked to the rent and the length of occupation.

Make sure we vote Reform , so they can repeal the bill, finally someone has a little common sense.

Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 25/02/2026 – 14:12
Ian, yes, due process is reasonable whereas arbitrary slurs without evidence are not. Unfortunately the MoJ works hard to avoid court hearings, which in the case of property means the Property Ombudsman is the light touch due process. With professional qualifications in the lettings agency business it could even be argued that qualified Agents are trusted professionals like Solicitors. So, one day, due process could start with the Agents, then Ombudsman and finally Court.

So it would be logical for the Property Ombudsman to keep a database including both tenants and landlords complaints with evidence to enable a fair and objective due process, so offload the cost and work that Courts would otherwise have to do in their Case Management system and process.

Reply to the comment left by wanda wang at 25/02/2026 – 21:24
Unfortunately Reform appears to fit the pattern of foreign interference in the democratic process by funding extremist organisations to disrupt with populist easy answers to hard problems.

Specifically Reform need to be open and transparent about all their funding both organisation and personnel, before anyone should vote for them.

The conviction for the senior Reform representative in Wales is a Red Flag because it takes a lot of investigation to get to a prosecution and more to succeed with conviction.

When you look at the current administration of USA and to who’s benefits they work, its clear that the alleged FSB kompromat operation is their most successful and puts 80 years of peace and stability at risk.

It’s important to know in who’s interest Reform will work and who they will discard as former useful idiots after getting their vote.

“I don’t care about you, I just want your vote.”

– Donald Trump 6/9/24

All these renters rights groups have a lot to answer for, none of us on here want to increase rents, none of us want shoddy homes, none of us want to be asking good tenants to leave, but that is what these groups would have you believe.

In reality, the vast majority of us want to offer quality, well priced homes to good tenants, we don’t want the bad tenants taking the mick, ruining our properties, and literally getting away with murder when it comes to evicting them or holding them to account. By contrast, these groups see blindly by all that and just see the bad landlords and brandish the whole industry as such, when in real life they are the minority and not the majority.

I would love to get on board with these organisations if only they would get off their high horse and wake up and smell the coffee. To a large extent we share a common goal, but that has to be balanced, and the always things have gone there is far too much protection to tenants and not enough for the landlord.

I’ve just spent almost a year getting possession of one of my rental properties, I’m down over £10k due to the law supporting an absconded tenant and ignoring me, even though I done everything by the book. Will I rent it out again? NO – it’s now on the market as the risks and figures just don’t balance, and over the next few years of EPC madness every one of my existing properties will face a similar fate.

Protecting tenants starts by having tenants to protect in the first place, we should deal with the unscrupulous landlords, that I agree on, but in penalising everyone these organisations and the government are crippling the UK private rented sector.

The corprate takeover of Britain is almost complete.