Jeremy Corbyn wants to scrap ‘No Fault’ evictions in England and Wales

This is "news ?" Fellow landlords south of the border may have looked at the Scottish model and said to themselves "interesting"
"never happen here" but I will take bets on "no fault evictions being outlawed" coming to your area very soon.

The rest of Europe’s tenants have far greater responsibilities…will they be implemented too? Thought not. I will exit the industry if this happens as s.8 is not fit for purpose, nor are the Courts able to act quickly enough. Someone else can pick up the pieces.

"...people can be evicted or have their tenancy terminated at the end of six months for no reason whatsoever."

There is ALWAYS a reason why a landlord wants to go to all the expense and trouble to evict a tenant from the property he has invested 10's or 100's of thousands of pounds into.

If the courts wont help me protect my life's work, I will be be forced into something drastic to protect myself.

No such thing as rogue tenants in corbyns book is there. I mean FFS. People droan about £50 billion or so in rents that tenants hand out every year yet little was and continues to made of the report that stated tenant damages equate to £9 billion a year. And corbyn sometimes has the cheek to say big companies are effecting the cash flow of small ones by not promtly paying but when a tenant can withold 2 months worth of rent before ANYTHING can be done thats fine and presumabily should be increased further still I suppose?

and when things that would be seen as a rightwing plot in this country is seen as 'normal' in europe but I again corbyn could not care less.

Reply to the comment left by Steve Masters at 28/12/2017 - 11:16
I could not agree more.
This is certainly pushing me over the precipice.
Yet another empty headed government policy which will achieve the complete opposite of the headline claims.
It's just too much aggro from my point of view.
I will be looking to evict over the next two years, if not sooner, as a direct consequence of both this and previous attacks by the state on landlords.
Having travelled to some 25 countries, I have noted that a very large number of them do not recognise the rights of an individual over his own property, especially housing. That fact alone has made me instantly lose all interest in putting any property investment into a country.
We are certainly heading the same way at a very fast pace.

This is great news for professional landlords. It drives out buy-to-let investors and small time players (and doubtless many lenders too) who will be, quite reasonably, scared about their ability to recover possession. Less supply will mean higher rents. Bring it on!

Reply to the comment left by David Smith at 28/12/2017 - 12:32Perhaps I am misunderstanding the situation. I thought this meant that no property owner can regain possession of his property unless the tenant is braking the terms of the proposed government controlled terms of contract. The tenants have permanent possession as long as they abide by the terms of the contract. The contract cannot be terminated by the landlord at all. Have I misunderstood this? If not then the investor loses even more control of their investment.
Otherwise how can any landlord ever recover possession?

Reply to the comment left by Paul Shears at 28/12/2017 - 13:17
Yes that is what it means. But if the tenant is paying their rent and abiding by the terms of the tenancy, why would a professional landlord want to get them out? It would be a different matter of course if rent control was re-introduced.

Reply to the comment left by David Smith at 28/12/2017 - 13:21
"why would a professional landlord want to get them out?"
How about the landlords retirement, divorce, emigration, wanting to switch to a different area or kind of property, wanting to redevelop the property, wanting to get out of the business?
I would be interested to hear factual assessments of how often tenants are asked to leave for reasons personal to the landlord. Not that the facts are likely to get in the way of the tide of anti-rogue landlord sentiment, even if it is a fiction.

There must be an infinite number of potential reasons why a landlord might want to regain possession of his property. The mind boggles!