It should be written into law that suitable alternative accommodation has to be found for tenants at the landlords own expense in this kind of scenario.
Good god the entitlement on this thread is shocking.
I don’t agree that a landlord should have to take over responsibility for a tenant’s life in that way. But there should at least be a long period of notice before sale, a year say.
If owners are going to provide essential services to people, i.e. housing, they should be much more heavily regulated than they are now.
What owners never admit is that the law already recognises their right to use their property against others acting otherwise lawfully: one landowner can’t buy all the land surrounding another’s property and deny access, for example. Why shouldn’t landlords have to accept some greater analogous obligations towards tenants?
BTL isn’t just the exercise of real property rights. It’s the provision of a basic right to people.
We can’t make more land. There will always be a practical limit on housing. Once you’re in the business of putting a roof over someone’s head in return for money you should take on substantial duties. Thinking otherwise is really entitled.