Levelling Up White Paper – S21 abolished – Landlord register – Decent homes standard

Looks like a date for all my private rented homes to be sold by, I have two properties in England and 2 in Wales. At least in Wales s21 will still exist but with 6mth notice and cannot be served in first 6mths so effectively a 12mth tenancy. The thought of not being able to get my property back in order to sell for my retirement because you can't ask the tenants to move on. Looks like I need to reviewy plans. After 5years in tenancy I have asked my tenants if they want to buy the property but all have refused the offer.

So S21 banned by 2030 - is that what is planned then? Lots of waffle but where is the actual date detail?

End of buy-to-let? Not quite but in future to protect against void periods etc. landlords may consider offering serviced accommodation or holiday lets instead. This takes the property rental into different legal frameworks. With the loss of control over a rental, the financial risk is greater and as a result it is likely that the larger corporate landlords (e.g. Insurance companies, banks etc.) will dominate traditional buy-to-let in future, The financial risk for smaller landlords will be too great.

I really like the hypocrisy of the government.
They are looking at creating a rogue landlord register, but there is no mention of creating a rogue tenant register.
Again, there is a requirement for minimum standard for the tenant to rent but nothing about how tenant do not care and look after the property they rent. My property is always in a terrible state when the tenant leaves the property. It was always their choice to leave and not mine to get them out. Section 21 to be abolished is an excuse to look good towards the public. On average my tenants stayed for 2 years.
So much for levelling up! There is nothing levelling with these change of regulations.

Where to start with this.

Will tenants be held responsible for trashing properties?

Most of our properties are already under local licensing where they have their own standards and where we are forced to pay a fee for the privilege, will this scheme be now scrapped?

Local licensing also has its own register of landlords.

I assume section 8 will be overhauled for problem tenants, selling etc?

Along with new C EPC which costs a bomb, why bother investing in property?

Finally, what is the point in voting Conservative?

When our politicians move to the Left truth goes out of the window.
“Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions will further be abolished, ending the unfair situation where renters can be kicked out of their homes for no reason”. This translates as “The State will overrule the freedom of adults to make agreements between each other on their own fair terms.”

Identity politics shows its ugly face again and, under pressure from the Progressive media, the Conservative Party as usual give in. Tenants good, landlords bad.

In my experience tenancies almost always end at the tenant’s decision. The landlord, however, has the greatest financial commitment in the provision of rented housing and has more responsibility. He should not have his hands tied behind his back. In shared accommodation tenants need to be accountable to the landlord as the referee, protecting other tenants from bad behaviour from a housemate.

I have to go back 50 tenancies to the last time I asked a tenant to leave. The female housemates complained to me that they felt insecure with a tenant who was bringing random women back home for drunken one-night stands. When I confronted him, he co-operated and voluntarily left. Under Gove’s authoritarian Big State plan of removing landlords’ rights over their own properties, it might be the girls who would have to leave, rather than the anti-social tenant.

Is 2030 the actual date though? I can't find confirmation that that is the case. It wouldn't surprise me if it says in the fine detail that Section 21 will be abolished by next Wednesday.

Commenting, Phil Turtle, compliance director with Landlord Licensing & Defence [link to homepage please] said: “This should be the biggest wake-up call for landlords. It is good that there may finally be some comprehensible minimum standards for rental property instead of the current guess and guess again system.

“But landlords should be petrified that councils and local authorities, the unaccountable, revenue driven and merciless housing police are to be give even more powers to destroy landlords. Particularly given Gove’s reinforcement of the belief that Fines and Bans are the way to ensure Landlords provide decent quality homes.”

Reply to the comment left by Jane Tomlin at 02/02/2022 - 09:51
Yes Jane same question here....all bungled in with the other tosh they are spouting. As I read it...implemented by 2030. Could it mean phasing in a year or so before then, or a deadline date of X applicable only thereafter????
As they are making the whole bloody thing up anyway from fairy wishes, I suppose we just have to wait for the next 'thrilling' instalment of 'the cunning plan' .

Makes me laugh...they suppose they will still be in by 2030 to effect all this???
I despair!

I have no issue with providing a decent home for tenants. Most of my properties have an EPC rating of C or above. I have good long standing tenants who consider me a good landlord. However, I have also had bad tenants who work the system, destroy your property and 'steal' the rent, leaving you without the will to live.

I started selling my portfolio after being a landlord for 20 years. I feel I no longer have any control over my property and live in fear of fines for some small thing I have missed or something that the tenant does. Evictions have been rare. My policy was to sell when a tenant gave up the tenancy. However, this week I have put 2 more properties on the market with the rest to follow. The risks of loosing my retirement funds and the stress of ownership are now too high