Greens want rent freezes as part of the Renters’ Reform Bill

When I first rented my house in 1997 the three tenants earnt 52k. My two tenants now earn 220k. Its a humble terrace. My rent has increased by 104%. During that time I have put in a new kitchen, a new bathroom, recarpeted twice, redone the garden, decorated three times, new curyains and blinds and new windows throughout. I managed an EPC of C.

"50,000 victims of section 21 evictions". What a pillock. I used s21 recently. The tenants owed me over £5000 and the house was a disgusting mess. Once the bailiffs took the house back a full year and a quarter later I was left with 3 floors FULL of rubbish. Who is the victim here Mr Politician? Me, who has spent 2 solid months so far trying to put my house back to anything like the state I originally let it in, or the tenants that got rehoused by the taxpayer?
Just who are these politicians?

'Ms Denyer said: “Everyone deserves a place to call home, and so I welcome the government’s plans to end no-fault evictions, but this is an opportunity to go much further and help the thousands of people who are trapped in the private rental market by spiralling rents that bear no relationship to incomes.
“In the short term, we need to see an immediate rent freeze, to go alongside an eviction ban, to prevent people being made homeless during this cost-of-living crisis.”'
The spiralling rents aren't related to incomes but to the landlord's spiralling costs. Their employer should be increasing their income to meet the inflationary costs of everything, including rents.
If you stop the landlord charging a rent which will ensure they can cover their costs then that landlord could have the property repossessed by the bank and then the tenant will be out anyway. Or will they tell the bank they can't evict either?
They can put rents down in government owned housing if they want, or freeze them, but they can't force landlords to run their business at a loss and prevent them selling with vacant possession and so cause them to lose out that way too. Why on earth do they think they can do that?

They'll be stopping us selling up next.

If the government wants to control rents then they should buy the let properties at market value with vacant possession, without the property owner being liable for CGT - replenish their social housing stock by all means but not force a loss on the existing property owners to do it.

Reply to the comment left by JamesB at 19/05/2023 - 19:19
Exactly - and how are they described as victims when it's in the contract they willingly signed?

I know of true victims, people who went away for a period and let their property for that period, telling the tenant from the outset that they needed to come back to it at the end of it, serving the correct notice as per the contract - only to be homeless upon their return because the tenant decided to stay put and renege on their side of the contract.

That's victims. Not people who are served notice under the contract and then resist and cause huge costs for the property owner in taking them to court and getting bailiffs to remove them.

I pay money to a bank for my house. The only way to make everybody feel secure in their homes is to give it to them for free