On the 11th of May the Queen will open parliament in which she is expected to confirm in the Queen’s Speech a number of bills covering Police, Courts, Crime, Armed Forces & the environment.
Many are expecting during the speech, the confirmation of the Renters Reform Bill which was announced in the Queens previous speech in December 2019. This will be the first time there are visible details to be debated in the House of Commons and the lettings industry to understand what is to come in the post section 21 vacuum.
Included in the bill might be details on the ‘lifetime rental passports’ which enables tenants to shift their deposits from one property to another.
We recently broke down the many issues facing landlords with evictions, and reports are not getting better since then with the court process making the serving of section 21’s a mute point as the notice period of 6 months is roughly how long you will wait to have the case heard by a court.
Groups like citizens advice recommends to tenants to wait out the notice period and then force the landlords to take them to court, effectively giving a possible 12 month period from the initial notice to when a property owner could regain possession of the home.
Evictions is something no party wishes to support during the pandemic, but with Covid19 restrictions slowly starting to lift the reckoning of debt and possession is approaching with the largest bottle neck appearing at the already backlogs court system.
Written by Toby Dawson
