Theresa May announces she will ban section 21

Reply to the comment left by Monty Bodkin at 15/04/2019 - 23:06However, section 21 notice I said is not a no fault eviction notice, it is used by landlords for some good reason, one of them being rent arrears, or being pain in the backside tenants, the agents may be using it for their own greed and convenience at the expense of inconveniencing the tenants and the landlords equally.

Tenants have a choice, they can move out if they don't like the tenancy terms, or like their landlord, but a landlord will not have that choice if S21 is abolished.

Reply to the comment left by Mike at 16/04/2019 - 00:56
I disagree with your comments about Letting Agents. Letting Agents do as much if not more work to relet a flat as an estate agent does to sell a flat. Letting Agents get a very small fee for this compared to Estate Agents get a percentage of the sale price so hardly profiteering.

Reply to the comment left by Mike at 16/04/2019 - 00:50
Nice idea Mike. One snag is that most BTL mortgages prohibit the landlord from occupying the property himself.

Reply to the comment left by Mike at 15/04/2019 - 22:59
What you describe is poor conduct by agents not landlords who may be unaware of it. True, landlords should take more interest in their portfolio but getting rid of s21 takes us back to pre-1980s when ASTs opened up the market.

If the Government were serious about making the process swifter they would have a trial for 12 to 24 months to speed up s8 proceedings. When that was shown to be working with court dates being obtained within 4 weeks and defaulting tenants evicted with 4 to 6 weeks thereafter (actually evicted, not just subject to a court order which the Council tells them to ignore until the bailiffs turn up). Then and only then, should they tinker with s21. Instead I expect s21 will be throw out with minimal consultation and the courts will get clogged up.

I like the use of the words

'Expidited'
'Swiftly'
'Smoothly'
'Rare'
'Security'
'Quickly'

Does anyone know who the Ministry of Housing Spokesman is?

Reply to the comment left by Hamish McBloggs at 16/04/2019 - 13:43
James Brokenshire I think. He is certainly the one that referred to the 'rare' times that tenants were in rent arrears....

Reply to the comment left by Dylan Morris at 15/04/2019 - 09:56
6 month tenancy means tenant is financially committed to initial term of tenancy usually minimum 6 months rent. Landlord can currently repossess property after 6 month tenancy term by serving an s21 notice with 2 months notice served at month 4.
Presumably if s21 is taken from landlords then tenant still financially committed to initial term of tenancy but landlord cannot obtain possession without a valid reason which should include wanting to sell property or move into property themselves. We wont know exactly what is proposed but the current Scottish system is likely to be used.

Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 16/04/2019 - 09:35
If the Government were serious about making the process swifter they would have a trial for 12 to 24 months to speed up s8 proceedings. When that was shown to be working with court dates being obtained within 4 weeks and defaulting tenants evicted with 4 to 6 weeks thereafter (actually evicted, not just subject to a court order which the Council tells them to ignore until the bailiffs turn up). Then and only then, should they tinker with s21.

Spot on Ian.

If you're going to remove section 21, then you better be damn sure you already have something to take its place.

History repeats.

Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey said Won’t work if landlords can still force tenants out by hiking the rent. For nine years, the Tories have failed to tackle problems facing private renters'.

Well his Labour Government has gave most tenants in Nottingham a rent increase they didn't deserve or none of us expected, with http://www.selectivelis
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All of a sudden Nottingham tenants and Landlords got fined £780 for doing nothing wrong and already having a good house.
My point is, the politicians and imbecile Councillors create a problem where one didn't exist. They know nothing about housing people, they do know about creating policies that win them votes, even if the policy don't truly work, as long as they stay in power, screw how many more be homeless cause of it.

Following discussions, anti social behaviour and difficult behaviour will be very difficult to evict. That s already prevalent in social housing. Like tenants who live in squalor, tenants where access is a problem, those that have a number of people continuously staying as ‘friends or family’, a large family that moves in when it’s a two person rental, carrying on an illicit business inside the flat. The onus will be on the landlord to prove which is tough.

As well as rent arrears, antisocial and breaches need to be regulated. Referencing becomes all important, is there a better way of doing this, say to have tenant passport? What about mutually agreed break clauses giving 2 months notice, would these still be legal?