The government is to blame for rising rents and homelessness – leading landlord claims

Every landlord knows this and the evidence proves it every time.
The market economy rules apply the same everywhere.
Restrict the supply and increase the costs means the price must go up.
There are too many people in the UK and there will never be enough houses under the current legislation.
Relax the rules and more homes will come on the market bringing lower prices /rents.
The law of economics is not understood by government... We all know that as well!

Absolutely - well said. When you become an MP, you have to leave your commonsense at the door when you enter Parliament.

Spot on Mick - again.

Additional property SDLT increased rents because landlords had to pay more to buy a property. Today, it means landlords are less likely to buy additional properties. So, who will be the expensive boxes that Labour hope the house builders will deliver?

Section 24 increased costs for landlords. Many tried to outsmart the government by moving property to Ltd structures. This could trigger SDLT, CGT and mortgage rates tend to be higher.

Politicians, however clever they may be, tend not to be practically minded. They don’t understand that buildings need to breathe. Most have never lived in a property that was built cheaply in the early 1900s. I doubt many would have woken to ice on the inside of their windows. The need to improve energy efficiency isn’t about saving tenants a couple of hundred pounds per year; higher rents will soon swallow that up. No, we need to use less energy so that the millions of migrants can be supplied with power from our woefully inadequate power networks.

Huge fines for minor oversights are disproportionate. However, the risk premium that needs to be added to rents is directly proportionate to the fines.

It’s true, tenants on benefits are the new pariah. No landlord worth his salt will provide homes to benefit claimants or unemployed migrants. Hence the need for anti-discrimination laws in the Renters Rights Bill.

I think war will come to the U.K. within 10 years. Many of our inhabitants have allegiances with other countries so good luck with conscription.

This government and the previous one hates landlords. And you know what? I hate them as well with a passion. Invest for your old age we were told.Well we did and they s**t all over us.

From thirteen properties in 2016 down to two this year. Only one sold to another LL. Managed to sell all my capital gain big hitters while CGT allowance was £12,400.

Last two to go next year along with the hassle of being an RTM director as nobody else wants to do it. As soon as the flats gone then the other three leaseholders will be asked to be directors. If not I will liquidate the RTM Co and they can pay £2500 a year in service charges rather than £1300.

Had enough. I'm going, going, and soon to be gone.

Reply to the comment left by Paul Feeney at 23/10/2024 - 10:27
That's relax the rules & tenants will have more choice.
Angela Rayner in Parliament said today.
We doing this RRB for tenants being ripped off by minority of Landlords.
She just said it
Minority.
So why do majority of tenants & majority of Landlords have to suffer?

Reply to the comment left by Cider Drinker at 23/10/2024 - 13:41
Well said Cider
Huge fines for minor oversights.

Share this & add to this & tell me what else I want to keep in this list please:

A background to why you tenants are paying extortionate rents and can't get anywhere unless you earning a cracking wage-Blame the Govt and Councils you vote for because you like it when they give more regs & rules to the Landlord-Guess who pays for this? You do.

I'm the biggest private provider to Benefit tenants in Nottingham over 27 years and not once has the Govt and Council come to ask me What they can do for me, so I and my colleagues will take the people we used to take. I will add to this list as I remember more.

They wanted Pet deposits banned. We stopped taking pets. Description here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u54ouYTdNr7WaCPYW18Q_tZdlJr8-VwSUJpE0IcPf5k/edit?usp=drivesdk

They don't want Landlords helping tenants with Benefits and they bought in Universal Credit which has zero communication with Landlord- We now don't take Benefit tenants.

They bought in Selective Licensing on good Landlords with good houses. We put the rents up to cover it and now don't take risky tenants.

Landlord can get fined £30,000 if tenant takes battery out smoke alarm and Landlord CAN'T prove that tenant did it.

Landlord can get fined £30,000 if renting 1 bed flat to single person and he/she moves his/her partner in unbeknown to the Landlord if the Selective License only has license for one occupier.

They started fining Landlords £5000 if they didn't check tenants passport properly on Right to Rent checks-Landlords stopped taking anyone that had the slightest chance of being illegal immigrant. Innocent UK citizens suffered.

2015, they bought in that if Landlord CANNOT PROVE he/she has gave tenant boiler certificate, you can never get your property back. Even if had a new boiler 5 years later, Judge says Not bothered, u not having your house back. This helped the current bad tenant, hurts the next 100,000 tenants waiting for a home. A purely Anti Landlord measure to stop Landlord getting rid bad tenant or having his house back.

Oct 2024 Unison now wants a rent freeze. Ooh are we a charity are we? What other individual who sells or provides something is told YOU CANNOT charge a price u wish?

Oct 2024 the Renter Rights Bill is going to make it law, u can't do rent increase unless use Section 13. Now for years, I've agreed informally with tenant 'Ok £25 a month, u still £200pm now below anyone else.' Job done.
Now, I'm totally full up with paperwork and rules and regs. I have no more time. Section 13 some more say only a few mins. It's still 30 mins by time printed, filled in, signed, scanned, sent. Each one when u have lots of houses on top of Selective Licensing INSISTING we inspect each house every 4 months (two weeks solid just on inspections every months) is taking me over the edge. My existing tenants are going to have to go with Letting Agent who charge £50 for a Section 13. That's £4pm extra on the rent. Along with the extra £80pm Letting Agent fee which gets rid of cheap rent was charity.

Sep 2024 Ed Miliband MP wants all houses to EPC C which will cost Landlords £5000 and increase tenants cheap rents. As soon he announced this, he made more tenants homeless. Few words on that here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eI7z29SNRCDLLwX6_0QQChrwTxZ4jGZw4UNybVYfD1s/edit?usp=drivesdk

Section 24 Tax bought in by George Osborne of the Tories who said it will only affect 1 in 5 Landlords-Thats over 2 million tenants put at risk of homeless. Landlords with tenants of 25 years are now being made homeless on this one action alone.

Oct 2018 I've heard there's a part of the RRB that says we must give tenants our home address on paperwork.
Details of that here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v7aETrvz0j6CdS7LZwYukthZAbhNxLWRKR8qShi6Gok/edit?usp=drivesdk

Every anti Landlord measure they bring in to they think will help the tenant has hurt the tenants massively.

Every time the MP's talk an anti landlord measure, they've made more homeless and increased rents.

The solution is to downsize Government.
Less regulations and less taxes.

However the current administration contort facts to try and feel they are doing the right thing by maintaining the Government size and upsizing it.
Its a failed practice wherever it is tried.

On one of my EPC's it recommends underfloor insulation with an estimated cost of £6,000. It then shows a yearly saving to the Tenant of £59.00. So Mr Mad Bad Ed Milliband I personally would never see any benefit.
My Tenants probably wouldn't live long enough to see the benefit and do you really see any common sense whatsoever in a Landlord having to pay out £6,000 for their Tenant to be £59 per year better off. By the Governments own calculations it would take over 101 years before it paid for itself. MADNESS! UTTER MADNESS! And the worst part: PEOPLE COULD LOSE THEIR HOMES OVER THIS IDIOTIC ILL THOUGHT OUT BUREAUCRACY!!

Reply to the comment left by Godfrey Jones at 23/10/2024 - 15:35
Ah but, if they can save 1kW of energy per property, regardless of the cost - so long as it’s not the Treasury, that’s a little. Ore energy to help power the 1.5 million homes that Labour say will be built by 2029.