AIBU to worry about Section 21 ending causing mass evictions?

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Has anyone noticed mass evictions happening due to the section 21 ending? In may the new law will make it harder for landlords to evict tenants so a lot are evicting tenants now, even good ones.

My friend got a surprise eviction notice yesterday and she is in temporary housing as it is. The neighbours opposite me are also getting evicted. These are no fault evictions.

Where will all these families go?

No they really are going after small scale ownership. It’s not even benefiting anyone. Growth at zero and unemployment, particularly youth unemployment is up.

Have their landlords been offered more money to use it as an hmo? It’s so wrong isn’t it. Demonising landlords will cause them to sell up.

Long term renter, not heard from current landlord fingers crossed....Anecdotes here are many accidental private landlords (moved in with husbsnd etc) and they were likely to sell up at some point.

Legal or tax changes inevitably trigger a "flood" but ultimately UK needs a better system more HA and council homes etc . Politics. Speak to your mp .

It’s just a sad state of affairs that many longterm tenants (and mostly families as these are the rentals hard to find particularly in popular areas) have shut up and put up for so long, knowing full well that raising maintenance issues would probably mean they’d be in a far worse position looking for alternative accomodation far from schools jobs etc, only to be turfed out when their landlord is forced to realise that having someone else pay their mortgage comes with obligations to uphold a decent and fair standard of living involving some investment on their part.

I would add that emotionally it’s hard when a tenant trashed your place - as bad as if you’ve been burgled in your own house. And then they do a runner owing rent and you have no chance of getting it back or payment for the damages they have done.

If I was your tenant I’d have rather paid an extra £200 than be evicted

Landlord and tenant is a devolved matter and Scotland abolished S 21s some years ago. I've noticed several people in this thread referring to the UK: The abolition of S 21s being discussed as about to be implemented is in England only.
The new Renters' Rights Act (mostly) applies in England - but for a couple of exceptions, for example clauses about discrimination against certain categories of applicants for tenancies, such as those on state benefits. .

Mmm, I'm a landlord and I'm not planning to get out of the rental market (or evict anyone) just yet. Going forward (not this year but possibly next) the rent I charge may need to rise a bit to cover any additional costs /increased taxes but Im not as terrified of the renters reform bill as many seem to be. In 20 years I've only ever had to evict one tenant and I'd be able to do that under the new legislation (they were a right anti social nuisance). It would probably cost more to do it now but its all in the business model (hence ? higher rents)

More landlord propaganda.

Pretending the discretionary grounds don't exist to whine.

Ground 10 which can be used with any amount of arrears at all if the court is happy it is reasonable. And ground 11 for persistent appears, and this can be done even if they have none at all at the time you go to court but definitely if they are doing what you claim and prove it - which is easy if they are actually doing it.

But you have three months for the court date with no income.

The entire system will free up all section 21 court dates that have no purpose as a first point

Second, with the current system of abusing section 21, it already has 3 months minimum with no income, and in reality longer due to clogged system of section 21 and other steps, for those who really have tenants not paying

But with all the nonsense stripped away and only real cases, things will go faster overall not slower. Might be similar to now for some.

If you depend on the income from one property then you shouldn’t be in the landlord business.

A big landlord in our village has served notice on all 8 of his properties, goodness knows where the tenants will live. If you’re on housing benefits and a single person there’s nothing available within a 15 mile radius (a friend’s son is desperately searching for, may end up in a house share but unable to keep his elderly small dog)

This really, and many insurers cover the shortfall in the policy, mine does.

This is exactly right, landlords who spuriously evict tenants will be stopped, but anyone with a genuine reason, it will be much the same.

Is he selling up?

What? It’s hardly their fault the landlords are now mass evicting people is it. If they’re good landlords, they’ll be ticking along nicely. No one is making anyone chuck their tenants out.

Of course it’s going to happen, it’s being made more and more difficult for the small landlord and it was easily seen this would happen, who would want to be a small landlord now

and those renting won’t be able to afford to buy either, so due to Government changes people are shafted

just as they will be with the new day one employment stuff, that will stop small business taking on new staff and growing

so

I feel like families who have been served a section 21 should go to their local town hall in droves. The council should be building more properties. There should also be a count of the amount of people made homeless becaue of a policy that was supposed to help stop homelessness

Yes MN hates landlords. So surely this is what everyone wanted. Corporate will fill the gaps you hope as there sure as hell won't be backfilled with socail housing. Rentals can not leave private landlords hands without selling up therefore evictions. That's the reality.

Lots of people was hoping the influx of BTL would collapse the market and all renters would br able to buy. Let's see how that pans out

This is an example of 100 properties being given a section 21 by the same landlord

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxdlr78n9zo

Criterion Capital are known cunts, though.

Tbh that article shows why getting rid of section 21, at least in its current form, is a good thing.

Exactly. This is the last time they’ll be able to do it.
These are just the shit and over leveraged landlords doing it. As the country moves towards a more stable rental market, the rules will hopefully get stricter.

Again, the exodus isn’t happening:

https://www.ftadviser.com/content/4aa84bce-1d18-4728-ad6c-5017168040e2