Gesetzentwurf zum Recht der Mieter: „Ich habe meine Wohnung verkauft, bevor der neue Gesetzentwurf in Kraft tritt“ – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwywj3gj9z7o.amp
Von coffeewalnut08
Gesetzentwurf zum Recht der Mieter: „Ich habe meine Wohnung verkauft, bevor der neue Gesetzentwurf in Kraft tritt“ – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwywj3gj9z7o.amp
Von coffeewalnut08
28 Kommentare
Reform for the rental sector is long overdue, particularly private rentals.
Perhaps some landlords may exit the market temporarily. But overall quality and stability of housing will improve. The sold properties could also be later bought by landlords who will actually invest to make them nice to live in.
Great! More supply for the housing market which should temper house prices.
Being a landlord is not a side project. Tenants deserve better.
As a landlord all be it one that rents to students, if your selling up as you are afraid of renters bill then you shouldn’t be renting in the first place.
Patricia, who has rented out properties since 1986, says by selling the flat she was „able to get out the money“ she had put into it.
Lmao yeah no profit to be had she must have put gold taps and marble floors in every year.
Landlords who are selling now because of these rights are the reason these rights are happening..too many bad landlords that do crappy repair works,let the house fall into disrepair and still charge above going rate for rent are a problem..I’ve always said that rent shouldn’t be higher than a mortgage for that area. End the buy to let schemes and let people have a chance to get onto the property ladder instead of allowing the same fat cat to add another property to the 30+ bad conditions hellholes they already have.
Going through the bill myself, I think it is all good changes as long as they ensure that evictions are actually enforced quickly by courts and judges aren’t bias against the property owners.
I wouldn’t risk renting a place out now though, seems like too much of an effort for an individual to go through courts for any eviction. Just sell the place and invest in index funds instead.
Yeah, I think lots of landlords are doing this.
I’m planning on buying my first flat soon, and I’m seeing lots of places come on the market and prices dropping.
Seems like lots of landlords are selling up, flooding the market, temporarily driving down prices. Which is great for me, but probably not good if you’re a tenant or prospective tenant, because now the rental market is about to get even more competitive – And people like me becoming owners rather than renters won’t compensate for this, because owner occupied properties have higher occupancy rates than rental properties (eg, I’m currently renting a 1 bed flat but planning on buying a 2 bed flat for myself).
Well where I live rental properties have skyrocketed in cost.
The average for a 3 bedroom semi was around £750 per month a few years ago, its now well above £1000 a month as there are so few.
Fact is there will always be people who need to rent for various reasons, all that is happening right now is those who need to rent are getting shafted so whatever the Government is doing not working and is only making life worse for those who do rent.
Unfortunately, however, good a landlord is these blanket changes will simply mean any additional costs are passed to the tenant.
I had a scumlord who was an absolute dick. The whole building was unsafe. Boiler not checked. Single glazed windows. No door entry. No bulbs in the hallway.
They also;
Harassed me in two work places
Turned off the electricity
Entered without permission
Used fear tactics
I’ve lost the will to fight them but I know if they pull any shit again I will destroy them.
Good, Maybe there will be more houses on the market for first time buyers. Seems like Labour policy actually working as intended.
I have little sympathy for the landlords selling up
Good! Let people that haven’t got their first home yet to have a home.
I am letting my house out (I moved to another country) and none of this seems to be at all concerning. Most of improves flexibility, eg tenancies are periodic rather than fixed term. Up until now I, and the tenant, would have to go through the motions of agreeing a new tenancy – the letting agent liked this because they would charge a fee. Now things can continue while the tenant it happy.
Rules on rent increases just require a formal notice of increase. The tenant can challenge something that isn’t at a market rate to a tribunal. These are generally sensible. I used to sit on one. Provided that you don’t try to put the rent up higher than the market rate you won’t have difficulty. If you alienate your tenant by charging lots they will go elsewhere and then you look an idiot, so better to be sensible.
You can’t evict for no reason, but I don’t want to evict my tenants. The whole point of the arrangement is that the home is occupied. Better to offer good terms and keep them. If they don’t pay the rent, there remains a ground of eviction. If that happens, I know I will end up out of pocket, but that is a risk you have to take in letting.
The only thing that gives me pause for thought is that the pet deposit is three weeks‘ rent. I can imagine some pets could be quite damaging. Again that is something to take into account when budgeting the let.
Just handed in our notice to our landlord complete with a list of issues we’ve raised over six years that he has not fixed and we will not be taking responsibility for, along with screenshots and evidence of each thing.
He told me he was „shocked“ to be hearing about these issues, as if he hadn’t already been repeatedly denying work requests.
Fuck landlords.
Legislation achieves its intended purpose, more news at 10.
The only thing that is going to have real effect is the building of more housing, it is that simple.
You can tinker with both Landlords and Renters rights as to make it more fair for both parties but ultimately only by increasing suppling are you going to improve things.
And yet we still can’t get rid of the fleece-holders – they must be greasing better than the landlords.
> „We need more affordable homes in the UK at the moment,“ she says.
As if she had no control of the price of rent she demanded
Excellent, more housing entering the housing supply (thereby pushing down prices) and the people still renting get more protections.
Always nice to see the positive news reported for once!
Okay. Now, how do we get a program to construct huge numbers of council houses off the ground?
So she is so worried about having to give tenants a justifiable reason for evicting them from their home that she’s thrown her toys out of the pram and is no longer a landlord.
Good riddance. Sounds like she was a particularly shitty landlord anyway.
My heart is absolutely breaking, won’t Labour think of the oppressed landlords?
>Patricia says „landlords are scared“ of some of the changes due to come into effect.
Good. British landlords have had it too easy for too long. I moved to Canada in 2013, and I was shocked at how many more protections tenants have here vs what I had experienced in the UK. If landlords don’t want to work within the new system they should sell up.
No amount of sob stories or media narrative will ever make me give a shit about 95% of landlords.
The area i live in whilst not the greatest would be a great place for people to get their first homes and cheap housing not far from the city.
Instead its full of 2/3 bedroom houses been turned into tiny bedsits or been rented out for 3x more rent than the mortgage monthly cost.
ITT: people who dont understand how supply and demand work.
no landlords, almost no properties to rent.
your rents will skyrocket in 6-12 months time
I’m a landlord (only the one property) and all those bulletpoints listed seem fine to me. My tenant has been in there for 10 years now and I try and do right by him. I want to sort any problems out asap as anything I don’t fix immediately will likely cost more in the long run. Sounds like this bill is only going to discourage the shitty landlords, as it should.
Maybe Im just being a simpleton here but I thought anything that drives down supply will just increase rents which is a bad thing?
In fact, in my simple brain, rental prices have ONLY been dictated by supply. All these reforms, if they increase supply then great – because rents go down, or they’re bad because supply goes down.
I’m sure that the vast majority of landlords will stay in the game because there is too much money to be made.
For me the proof of the RRB will just be on how stable rent prices are over the next few years. Rents have risen 35-55% over the last 5yrs. If they go up by the same level or even more then I cant see how this will be seen as a good policy.
Im sure we can all agree that rents going down is a good thing as it leaves more money to be spent in the wider economy rather than lining the pockets of landlords – and the government through rental taxes.