Following the announcement from the Government that it is to ban Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions by landlords and letting agents, further proposals to soften the blow of the shock announcement have been revealed. The more complicated Section 8 eviction process is to be amended to enable landlords to end a tenancy if they have a legitimate reason to do so, including ...

Landlords are losing the confidence to let to 2.4 million European Union (EU) tenants due to fears of breaking Government rules. The problem could get worse after Brexit, according to the Residential Landlords Association (RLA), a trade body. Right to rent rules, introduced by the Home Office in 2015, mean landlords face prosecution if they know or should know that their ...

For the first time in living memory, a child is at least as likely to be born into a rental property as a home owned by its parents, which is up from around one in three babies in 2003/04. The analysis, using data from the Family Resources Survey, suggests that parents are renting from private landlords for longer, with worrying financial, practical and emotional ...