Vermieter kündigen Mietern, bevor in England ein Gesetz zur Verhinderung dieser Praxis in Kraft tritt
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/08/landlords-no-fault-evictions-tenants-renters-rights-bill-law?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Von topotaul
Vermieter kündigen Mietern, bevor in England ein Gesetz zur Verhinderung dieser Praxis in Kraft tritt
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/08/landlords-no-fault-evictions-tenants-renters-rights-bill-law?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Von topotaul
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They allowed way too long a lead for this law coming into force. The sheer noise of landlord whining and subsequently allowing them to evict because of the law change is terrible.
Very Guardian article. The Headline implies a mass trend, whereas evidence is mostly anecdotes and activist-group claims, then padded out with emotive stories to push the reader toward a conclusion.
And yet, according to the mortgage and landlord possession statistics, actual possession claims have fallen in the run up to the new laws. It’s just possession claims that are tracked officially, rather than notices, but really strongly suggests this isn’t happening.
If they’re evicting people before the deadline, they were planning to evict them anyway.
Funny, any time I said this would happen, left-wing redditors told me I was a Tory.
Just a personal perspective my Daughter is renting at the moment but has decided to buy with her boyfriend (about bloody time). Her landlord who has been pretty decent on the whole is asking her to stay longer and is in no hurry to get possession.
Lots of her mates are in the rental market and according to her no one is getting evicted it seems if Landlords get reasonable tenants they like to hang on to them.
Landlords try not to be the most subhuman cunts on the planet challenge: impossible.
Too many households and not enough houses – that’s the problem. Blaming landlords was never going to solve this imbalance.
We see it playing out here. First anger that landlords are acting as parasites. As laws come into force to push the parasites out of the market, now people are complaining that they are leaving.
If there was sufficient houses, none of this would be a problem.
To anyone facing this just don’t leave but keep paying your rent, the court process takes forever and you can legally stay there during the process. Its not a get out of jail free card as it is likely that they will be able to continue but just make it awkward for them. Worst case you get another 6 months to find somewhere else, best case they messed something minor up on the paperwork and will need to restart under the new rules.
https://england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/eviction/section_21_eviction/staying_after_a_section_21_notice
Buying a house right now (to live in!) which a landlord is selling and the reason they gave for selling was not to do with lack of control over evictions it is specifically the need to have a C or better EPC rating under the new tenancy regulations. It’s a Victorian era property (bakery converted into a small detached house 25 years ago) and they said to get from current D rating to C could cost a lot of money.
As someone who has rented 30 odd years of my life I would say these new regulations may cause short term pain in the rental market but are needed going forwards to stop abuse.
Is anyone at all surprised by this ?
Talk about stating the bleeding obvious : you make it more hassle to be a landlords and fewer people will want to be landlords.
Sometimes I wonder if the internet is turning people’s brains to mush…..
I work in front line homelessness provision. Every time this gets into the news, we see a flurry of new S21s being issued. This has been happening for a while, since the tories first floated the idea a few years ago, but we are now seeing a marked increase in landlords selling off entire portfolios. The area I serve is seeing a much more competitive rental market due to these changes, but it’s been ramping up for years.
Maybe they’ll finally put actual pressure to reform S8, since all they did so far is tell anyone thinking of using S8 to go S21 instead because of how much of a pain the court process is.
I know multiple people affected by this, it has really caused a lot of stress and other landlords are taking advantage and hiking their prices as they know there are really desperate people. I also know some non British nationals that have emigrated to other non native countries, leaving full time jobs in important areas (health care, public services).
The idea itself is good overall, but been managed terribly, a shorter limit period before it came into affect would have helped as it seems the landlords wanting to sell hung on till they could to milk rent.
We need more affordable housing, the amount of full time professionals I know renting as they cannot get on the ladder is crazy, I was lucky myself, otherwise I would be in the same boat, and I am not a low earner, my mortgage costs half, if not less than half, of my mates rent.
Yeah this happened to my sister and her partner. They moved in 8 months ago and were told there’s no way they are selling. Surprise surprise, they were issued a no fault eviction as they want to sell. They have to be out one day before the law changes